Something happened in both places — of that I'm certain. Precisely what happened in each instance remains to be seen. I have my own opinions, but lacking further evidence these are mere speculation. The truth will have to wait.
As a child I lived at Roswell in 1959 and 1960. I never heard a word about it. I was then stationed at Walker AFB in 1966 and 1967, and again never heard anything bout it.
There is one thing interesting I was told happened on the air base. I was a maintenance man on the B-52 bombers at the time. After the base closed, we were transfered to Little Rock AFB and worked on KC-135 tankers.
I was working with an airman who had been stationed with me at Walker. He told of being on the flight line when a B-52 radioed in that it had something glowing attached to the nose radome. That B-52 landed and parked next to his B-52. Something glowing WAS attached to the nose, both he and his working partner saw it.
The Apes(Air Police), as we called them then, were there with machine guns and all sort of ordnance.
The object detached itself and flew up into the sky. The flight commander came out and told all those working on the flight line, “You men did not see what you just saw”.
I was at the barracks and never heard a word about it.
After I was told of this, I later talked to his partner about it. “Oh, it wasn't nothing” he said, then he clammed up.
Have you heard anything about such an incident?