These bags may have been described by at least one witness as 'body bags' used to recover alien victims from the crash of a flying saucer. On balloon flights, test dummies were used and placed in insulation bags to protect temperature sensitive equipment. This photo is from the Air Force's 'The Roswell Report,' released on June 24, 1997, which discusses the UFO incident in Roswell, N.M. a sort of final chance to maybe solve the mystery, one way or the other, for good,' he said. 'The fact that Roswell will be the focus of world attention again, is almost like. Such a discovery could, as the much anticipated 75th anniversary of the incident nears, help shed new light on what happened in 1947. Pope, who will travel to Roswell in July to participate in the Daily Record's Roswell Incident event, part of the city's UFO Festival, said he hopes discovery of the old Dispatch headlines reminds people that historical records could still be out there, waiting to be discovered.

Daily Record management thought it was important to present the archival front page, a piece of local history, to the public unedited and unaltered. Readers might also notice that the Dispatch front page contains instances of language that reflect the less culturally sensitive times during which the paper was being published. The other items: 'Carrizozo Man Sees Flying Disk,' 'Joe Massey Spots Disk Over Roswell,' and an image of an unknown object in the sky over Seattle, Washington, with a caption that asks the question, 'Is this a flying disc?'įurther research into the archives has uncovered many more mentions of sightings. The Roswell incident is one of four UFO-related accounts that appear just on the front page of the JMorning Dispatch. A look at the Dispatch records provide a reminder, for instance, of the degree to which a public fascination with UFOs had taken hold here and across the country at that time. There's much to be discovered in the archives. Beck added that the Roswell Morning Dispatch accounts have also now been trademarked, meaning they can't be reproduced without permission. The Roswell Daily Record headlines related to the 1947 UFO incident have, for some time, been federally trademarked. 'The Dispatch was originally owned by my family and it's very exciting that we now have a new primary resource to further understand the history of New Mexico and its undiscovered stories.' 'It has taken over 70 years for the Roswell Morning Dispatch with its unique articles and headlines to be discovered while looking through our newspaper's archives,' she said. 'This is just an amazing glimpse into Roswell in 1947 - which was ground zero for this mystery that still endures to this day.'īarbara Beck, publisher of the Roswell Daily Record, said that bringing a new resource to light for researchers is something the paper's staff is excited about. He added, 'Any historian will tell you that going back to the original sources is priceless when it comes to getting an insight into what happened and how those people involved were reacting and perceiving things, and what the feeling was in the local community. 'It just shows that 75 years after the Roswell incident, there are still discoveries to be made in the archives.' 'It's a fascinating piece of history that time had forgotten,' Pope said.

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