Report of Air Force Research Regarding the Roswell Incident

to my ranch and showed my husband and me a piece of
material he said came from a large pile of debris on the
property he managed. The piece he brought was brown in
color, similar to plastic ..• 'Mac' said the other
material on the property looked like aluminum foil. It
was very flexible and wouldn't crush or bum. There was
also something he described as tape which had printing
on it. The color of the printing was a kind of
purple ... "
Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W.W. Brazel; 14
years old at the time of the incident). Affidavit dated
September 22, 1993 .. " .. The debris looked like pieces of
a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small,
the largest I remember measuring about the same as the
diameter of a basketball. Most of it was a kind of
double-sided material, foil-like on one side and
rubber-like on the other. Both sides were grayish silver
in color, the foil more silvery than the rubber. Sticks,
like kite sticks, were attached to some of the pieces
with a whitish tape. The tape was about two or three
inches wide and had flowerlike designs on it. The
'flowers' were faint, a variety of pastel colors, and
reminded me of Japanese paintings in which the flowers
are not all connected. I do not recall any other types
of material or markings, nor do I remember seeing gouges
in the ground or any other signs that anything may have
hit the ground hard. The foil-rubber materiaY could not
be tom like ordinary aluminum foil can be tom ••• "
Sally Strickland Tadolini (neighbor of WW Brazel; nine
years old in 1947). Affidavit dated September 27, 1993.
"··What Bill showed us was a piece of what I still
think as fabric. It was something like aluminum foil,
something like satin, something like welltanned leather
in its toughness, yet was not precisely like any one of
those materials .•.• It was about the thickness of very
fine kidskin glove leather and a dull metallic grayish
silver, one side slightly darker than the other. I do
not remember it having any design or embossing on it •.. "
Robert R. Porter (B-29 flight Engineer stationed at
Roswell in 1947). Affidavit dated June 7, 1991 " On this
occasion, I was a member of the crew which flew parts of
what we were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The
people on board included ... and Maj Jesse Marcel. Capt.
William E. Anderson said it was from a flying saucer.
After we arrived, the material was transferred to a
B-25. I was told they were going to Wright Field in
Dayton, Ohio. I was involved in loading the B-29 with
the material, which was wrapped in packages with
wrapping paper. One of the pieces was triangle-shaped,
about 2 1/2 feet across the bottom. The rest were in
small packages, about the size of a shoe box. The brown
paper was held with tape. The material was extremely
lightweight. When I picked it up, it was just like
picking up an empty package. We loaded the triangle
shaped package and three shoe box-sized packages into
the plane. All of the packages could have fit into the
trunk of a car ...• When we came back from lunch, they
told us they had transferred the material to a B-25.
They told us the material was a weather balloon, but I'm
certain it wasn't a weather balloon ..• "
In addition to those persons above still living who
claim to have seen or examined the original material