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73 that looked like a pipe sleeve. About four inches across and equally long, with a flange on one end. [Also] what appeared to be pieces of a heavily waxed paper. .. . Something on the order of tinfoil, except that [it] wouldn't tear... You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it imme- diately resumed its original shape ... quite pliable, but you couldn't crease or bend it like ordinary metal. Almost like a plastic, but definitely metallic. Dad once said that the Army had once told him it was not anything made by us. [There was also] some threadlike material. It looked like silk ... but was not silk ... a very strong material [without] strands or fibers like silk would have. This was more like a wire—all one piece or substance. . .. Some woodenlike particles .. . like balsa wood in weight, but a bit darker in color and much harder. ... It was pliable but wouldn't break... . weighed nothing, but you couldn't scratch it with your fingernail. All I had was a few small bits. [There was no writing or markings on the pieces I had] but Dad did say one time that there were what he called "figures" on some of the pieces he found. He often referred to the petroglyphs the ancient Indians drew on the rocks around here as "figures," too, and I think that's what he meant to compare them with. Walt Whitmore, Jr., son of the owner of Roswell radio station KGFL: "[It was] very much like lead foil in appearance but could not be torn or cut at all... extremely light in weight... some small beams that appeared to be either wood or woodlike had a sort of writing on it which looked like numbers which had either been added or multiplied [in columns]." So far, the only people who knew that something strange had crashed on the Foster Ranch were civilians. Mac Brazel's life was centered on the sheep ranch and, since he was unaware of the "flying saucer" craze sweeping the country, did not connect them with what had scattered pieces across one of his fields. Only after friends had urged him to tell the army about what CIVILIANS FIND THE WRECKAGE William Brazel, Mac's son: