Case · UFO Afrinews No 12, July 1995
Out of Africa: Roswell 1947
1947 ยท Open farmland near Roswell, New Mexico, Roswell Army Air Field; Fort Worth, United States
Outside the region. Hind reprinted this case from elsewhere; it has a file here but no place on the map.
What was reported
Hind departs from her Africa-only policy to summarise Roswell, in her view the only case where physical evidence of a non-Earth craft was produced, though later denied. In early July 1947, during a severe thunderstorm, something crashed on 'Mac' Brazel's farmland near Roswell, New Mexico, scattering unidentifiable silver-coloured material over about 1.5 km and leaving a deep gouge. The Army Air Field first announced an extraterrestrial craft; the Air Force almost at once called it a weather balloon (printed as a 'Radive' balloon). Major Jesse Marcel took pieces home to show his wife and son. In 1994 the US government said it was a MOGUL balloon meant to detect nuclear tests, a delay Hind finds odd. She lists the investigators, the son's account of hieroglyph-like marks on balsa-like crossbars, the undertaker asked about small coffins, and the debris flown to Fort Worth under General Ramey.
What Hind made of it
Many mysteries, incongruities and possible hoax factors; nothing resolved; she questions why the USA took nearly 50 years to reveal the MOGUL explanation
Explanation offered
Weather balloon (Air Force, 1947); Project MOGUL balloon for detecting Soviet nuclear tests (US government, 1994)
In their words
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One cannot help questioning why it took the USA nearly 50 years to reveal this!
Cross references
- 12-17-1 Santilli autopsy film
- Books on Roswell list
- 509th Bomber Group / Walker Air Force Base
- Fort Worth AAF, 8th Air Force