Roswell Incident Case Study

Roswell “UFO” Incident One Summer Morning in July 1947 the weekend after Independence Day, near the town Roswell in New Mexico. A rancher named William Brazel found pieces of debris inside of his sheep pasture, so he calls the authorities. The U.S Military is said to have recovered the debris quickly and announced it was a crashed weather balloon, but in suspicion they remain to keep the incident a secret to this day. To begin, On July 8, 1947, a rancher named William “mac” Brazel reported to the local sheriff George Wilcox, that he recovered remains of “one of those flying saucers”. Wilcox contacts the nearby authorities then authorities contact the military authorities at the nearby Roswell Army Air Field, where Major Jesse Marcel was assigned to investigate incident. Marcel and two other agents drive out to the ranch to examine the crash, then quickly collected the wreckage. Later in the day, information office at Roswell Base made the announcement to the public that they had recovered remains of a “flying disc”. On the next day General Roger Ramey ordered the wreckage sent to him to be examined at Carswell Air Force Base. He held a press

Studies show hundreds of witnesses seen the “UFO” crashing down at Roswell. Bill Moore, coauthor of The Roswell Incident, Interviewed “more than seventy-witnesses who had some knowledge of the Roswell UFO crash event.” The numbers were accurate, but didn’t know if the knowledge was relevant because they didn’t know if the information was first or second hand witnessing and how truthful and accurate their statements were. After time, testimonies of twenty-five of those witnesses are claimed to be firsthand witnesses and said to have seen the debris of “UFO”, and one account became suspect. Only five of the “seventy-witnesses” said they have touched and held materials from debris and one claims it wasn’t from a