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| Headline: | Newspaper: | Country: | Date: | Brief assessment: |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "RAAF captures flying saucer on ranch in Roswell region" | Roswell Daily Record | USA | July 8, 1947 | The original article from the local newspaper Roswell Daily Record. |
| "Army reveals it has flying disc found on ranch in New Mexico" | The Sacramento Bee | USA | July 8, 1947 | The news spreads to other newspapers. |
| "Bulletin" | San Francisco News | USA | July 8, 1947 | "Possession of a "flying disk" was disclosed today by the Intelligence Office of the 509th Bomb Group of Roswell Army Air Base." |
| "Disk lands on ranch in N.M - is held by Army" | Seattle Daily Times | USA | July 8, 1947 | "Size secret, disk reported flown in B-29." |
| "Army finds "Flying Saucer," General believes it is radar weather target" | Los Angeles Herald-Express | USA | July 8, 1947 | Disc would heave measured 5 feet if reconstructed but would have been to light to carry a man. No evidence of power plant. |
| "U.S. Army to examine a 'flying disk'" | The Times | U-K | July 8, 1947 | From the Times correspondent in Washington, Army to examine the "flying disk" at Wright. |
| "Only meager details of flying disc given - Kite-like device found in N.M. studied by Army" | The Wyoming Eagle | USA | July 9, 1947 | Article announcing the recovery of the disc and its flimsly construction not allowing passenger transport or supersonic flight. High level stuff althour Ramey unimpressed. |
| "General Ramey empties Roswell saucer" | Roswell Daily Record | USA | July 9, 1947 | Ramey says excitement is not justified, he says the disk is a weather balloon. |
| (No headline) | San Francisco Chronicle | USA | July 9, 1947 | Roswell Army Air Field has examined a flying disc that they recovered and Major Marcel has loaned it to higher headquarters. |
| "Harassed rancher who located 'saucer' sorry he told about it" | Roswell Daily Record | USA | July 9, 1947 | Article in the edition announcing that General Ramey has "emptied the flying saucer" as a weather balloon, containing the story of Mac Brazel. |
| Interview | Roswell Daily Chronicle | USA | July 9, 1947 | William "Mac" Brazel describes debris as tinfoil, sticks, rubber, paper, scotch tape, and says it is abolutley not a weather balloon. |
| "AAF 'Flying Saucer' merely weather box-Kite - New Mexico find proves complete dud" | The Washington Post | USA | July 9, 1947 | Article announcing that Irvin Newton at Fort Worth identified the debis as a weather box-kite, and tells the story of the case. |
| "'Disk' near bomb test site is just a weather balloon - Warrant officer solves a puzzle that baffled his superiors - 'Flying Saucer' tales pour in from round the world" | The New York Times | USA | July 9, 1947 | Article announcing that the saucer has been found to be a battered weather balloon by officer Irving Newton and mentions other reports of all sorts. |
| "Flying disc tales decline - as Army, Navy cracks down" | The Las Vegas Review-Journal | USA | July 9, 1947 | Reports of flying saucers whizzing through the sky fell off sharply as the army and navy began a concentrated campaign to stop the rumors. |
| "Flying saucers over S. Africa, Canada and Australia? Conflicting reports on mystery objects - "Concrete evidence" in three instances" | Ceylon Observer | Ceylon (Sri Lanka) | July 9, 1947 | The announcement by RAAF, General Ramey, Army experts has strong opinion it is some meteorological device like those under Army balloons, Shreveport and Tacoma cases, sightings in the world. |
| "It was not an optical illusion... A "flying saucer" lands in a farmyard in New Mexico" | L'Aurore | France | July 9, 1947 | The Roswell air base announcement of the recovery of a flying disc in a major French newspaper. |
| "US Army found a "flying disk"" | Dernières Nouvelles d'Alsace | France | July 9, 1947 | The AP press release in a French regional newspaper. |
| "A "flying saucer" falls into the hands of the Americans" | Le Parisien Libéré | France | July 9, 1947 | The Roswell air base announcement of the recovery of a flying disc in a major French newspaper. |
| "They find a 'Saucer' is just a balloon" | The Chicago Tribune | USA | July 9, 1947 | The disc was only a balloon. |
| "Device like local 'discs' found in West - Pickaway countians believe 'kites' are answer to U.S. "saucer" tales" | Circleville Herald | USA | July 9, 1947 | The disc was only a balloon, and other balloon and radar target were found elsewhere too. |
| "The "flying disk" of Roswell was a weather balloon" | Corriere della Serra | Italy | July 10, 1947 | Announcement in italian national newspaper that the flying disk was a weather balloon and its instruments box. |
| ""Flying disk" turns up as just hot air" | Unknown | USA | July 10, 1947 | Announcement that the flying disk was a weather balloon. |
| "The 'flying saucers' keep their mystery" | L'Aurore | France | July 10, 1947 | The Army says the Roswell saucer was a weather device, but maybe this is to cover-up something else. |
| "After the U.S., Australia, England, France too has its 'flying saucers' | L'Echo d'Oran | Algeria | July 11, 1947 | Mention of saucer in Roswell. |
