Now we suspect at this time 9 year old Dee Proctor rode back with Mac and his pal Vernon to see the debris. There they met with their good friends the Proctors and discussed the matter. Mac then tucked some of the debris under his hat, then he and his son rode to a nearby ranch. Even after Mac baited the area to persuade the sheep, they still refused to cross that particular area. I learned in June of 2006, that the sheep actually refused to cross the debris area up to 2 years after the initial finding. Choosing a path which crossed the debris area, the sheep refused to cross the field and Mac was forced to herd them around. After locating the sheep, Mac and his son tried to herd the sheep to the well for water. Early next morning while venturing out to check on their sheep, they came upon strange metallic debris and other unknown material scattered within a 200 to 300 yard area across a pasture. The ranch house is located roughly 80 miles Northwest of Roswell in Lincoln County near the city of Corona. The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he decided to release the details of what he had seen.ĭuring the week of July 3rd 1947, 48 year old W.W Mac Brazel and his 8 year old son Vernon were staying at the Hines ranch house waiting out a terrific thunderstorm. 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 it. The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill. Wilmot said she heard a swishing sound for a very short time. Wilmot said that he heard no sound but that Mrs. From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about 5 feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 to 20 feet in diameter, though this was just a guess. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely underneath. In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two old type washbowls placed, together in the same fashion. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour. Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. It was in sight less then a minute, perhaps 40 or 50 seconds, Wilmot estimated. Wilmot’s attention to it and both ran down into the yard to watch. last Wednesday night at about ten o’clock when a large glowing object zoomed out of the sky from the southeast, going in a northwesterly direction at a high rate of speed. They were sitting on their porch at 105 South Penn. Dan Wilmot apparently were the only persons in Roswell who seen what they thought was a flying disk. The intelligence office stated that no details of the saucer’s construction or its appearance had been revealed.
After the intelligence officer here had inspected the instrument it was flown to higher headquarters. Major Marcel and a detail from his department went to the ranch and recovered the disk, it was stated. Wilcox, here, that he had found the instrument on his premises. Marcel, intelligence officer, the disk was recovered on a ranch in the Roswell vicinity, after an unidentified rancher had notified Sheriff Geo.
According to information released by the department, over authority of Maj.J. The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer. UFO wreckage! But the story doesn’t stop there, it just begins and then haunts Mac, his family and all involved, for the rest of their lives!!! While out in the pasture checking on his sheep, he came across some very unusual wreckage. Cowboy sheep rancher Mac Brazel made an amazing discovery. The real story of “Cowboys & Aliens” played out in Lincoln County New Mexico, in July of 1947.