Very strange lunch..

I had lunch yesterday with a very interesting 65 year old man who grew up in Roswell, New Mexico. He is a smart businessman who acts as a mentor to many. His expertise is marketing, and he seems to have a firm grasp of the subtlties of human nature. I was very impressed with him, and then I brought up the alledged alien visit in 1946 in Roswell. The newspaper read as follows-

<b>Roswell Daily Record, July 8th, 1947:


RAAF CAPTURES FLYING SAUCER ON RANCH IN ROSWELL REGION
No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed
Roswell Hardware Man and Wife Report Disk Seen

The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Ros- well Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer.

According to information re- leased by the department, over authority of Maj. J. A. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Ros- well vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified sheriff Geo. Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises.

Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated.

After the intelligence office here had inspected the instrument it was flown to "higher headquar- ters".

The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer's construction or its appearance had been revealed.

Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot ap- parently were the only persons in Roswell who have seen what they thought was a flying disk.

They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. last Wednesday night at abou ten minutes before ten o'clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed.

Wilmot called Mrs. Wilmot's attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. It was in sight less than a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimat- ed.

Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated be- tween 400 and 500 miles per hour.

In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two oldtype washbowls placed to- gether in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely under- neath.

From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about five feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 or 20 feet in diam- eter, though this was just a guess.

Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. Wilmot said she heard a swishing sound for a very short time.

The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of sixmile hill.

Wilmot, who is one of the most respected and reliable citizens in town, kept the story to himself hoping that someone else would come out and tell about having seen one, but finally today decided that he would go ahead and tell about seeing it. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he had decided to release the details of what he had seen. </b>


He not only said it was true, but he knew the people involved. He talked of his good friend's girlfriend who witnessed the autopsy of a dead alien. She was killed in a car accident two days later. He talked about his good friend who found the wreckage.

He claims that the Air Force people thought that the first nuclear test in New Mexico, which was the source of a huge release of energy, attracted the aliens to our planet.

If this old man were not so smart, lucid, and respected in his community, I would dismiss this entire event. I am a person who is very sceptical about these kind of things, so I am a bit troubled by this right now. Has anybody else talked to a Roswell eyewitness?