ROSWELL: October 1949

A Sighting of UFO's at Walker Airfield, Roswell, New Mexico in 1949 produced these images found in Project Blue Book.  As you will see, the images were produced in negative and positive formats to aid in the analysis of the photographs.

The two images above (which appear to be the same view; one neg. and one positive; with one image possible reversed in that process based on the shading of what may be a road edge at the bottom of the page. These two enlarged images were in a single file labeled :Chron. 24-185-17-137, Oct. 21, 1949, Roswell, New Mexico, 2 photos."  There was no accompanying report; it is possible they are mentioned in other reports of that year and said report may be filed in one of those sightings files.

The area where the images were allegedly captured. 

 These images were in a different file labeled: "File 577, Oct. 21, 1949, Roswell, New Mexico, 8 photos."  Again, no accompanying report or forms.

This is interesting because these are the only two reports in PBB for that year - indeed the NM list begins with 1949 and these two files. Other sources indicate a report of an unidentified of January 1949 and an alleged crash.  The sighted object was a flare-bright blue-green. For more details on that check Kevin Randle's blog entry at A Different Perspective: The 1949 Roswell UFO Crash (kevinrandle.blogspot.com).

The January event was later labeled a "meteor" despite many anomalies in the reported movements. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz was intrigued and believed it fell further north and west. Oddly, in San Antonio, Texas on Jan. 20th a round blue-green object was observed moving from the ESE to the WNW and moving across the sky in a 5 second window of time. Trailing it was a large tail - nearly as wide as the object tinged with pink and shooting red sparks. It was labeled a "meteor",

An October file for Atlantic, Iowa reveals 25 pages of witness accounts of seeing a large round or circular object (5-6 feet in diameter), moving north according to one witness from possible another state entirely. Several witness statements made this file: April in Inglewood, California, Oct. 28, Napa, California where it was termed an "unusual aircraft", Oct 30 Novato, California (a 50 ft. diameter sphere, white, moving 500 mph--military witness),