| | | | DATE | Incident | | | June 24, 1947 | Kenneth Arnold reports 9 flying disks while piloting a small plane over Washington state | July 2 | The Wilmont's see a flying disk over Roswell. Generally accepted date for Roswell incident. | July 4 | Jim Ragsdale and Trudy Truelove claim to see a disk crash near Pine Lodge. | | Nuns report seeing a disk crash from hospital in Roswell. | July 5 | Claims of military retrieving wreckage from Pine Lodge crash | | Mac Brzel and nieghbor kid find debri on Foster ranch. This is first day "Roswell" wreckage is discovered. | July 6 | Brazel meets with Wilcox, Roswell Sheriff, and also speaks with Frank Joyce a KGFL radio employee. | | | | | | Gerald Anderson, family and others claim to have found 1 live, 1 dieing, and 2 dead aliens near St. Augustine NM. (No physical evidience has been attached to this claim) | July 7 | Whitmore, owner of KGFL radio station attempts to get an exclusive interview with Brazel. | | Maj. Jesse Marcel Sr. retrieves debri from Foster ranch and takes some home to show son, Jesse Marcel Jr. (This is an unuasal claim. An officer sent to retrieve wreckage, which he believes to be of alien origin, takes pieces of wreckage home to show family??????) | July 8 | Lt. Walter Haut writes press release stating "Army recovers Disk" | | Ft. Worth press conference. Marcel identifies debri as wreckage of weather balloon. | July 9 | Papy Henderson claims to have flown B29 that carried alien remains to Wright Patterson | | Glenn Dennis sees wreckage at RAAF base and has convesation with nurse who claims to have witness alien remains examination. | | |