William Ware Brazel, known as Mac, the foreman of the Foster ranch north-west of Roswell, New Mexico, who found a debris field on the property in the summer of 1947 and reported it to the sheriff in Roswell, which is how the Roswell Incident 1947 entered the record at all.
The two accounts
The base collected the material and issued the flying disc press release; within a day Roger Ramey replaced it with the weather balloon, and Brazel was taken to the base and held for several days. When he next spoke to the press his description had changed, and he is reported to have told relatives afterwards that he had been told to keep quiet.
Why the node matters
The Roswell cluster in this vault runs to several nodes and did not include the man who found the debris. Everything downstream, Jesse Marcel’s account, the GAO Roswell Records Report 1995, the Project Mogul reading, and the whole reverse-engineering genre that begins with The Day After Roswell, starts with a ranch foreman driving into town with a box of scrap.
Connections
Roswell Incident 1947 · Roswell Army Air Field · Jesse Marcel · Roger Ramey · Walter Haut · Project Mogul · GAO Roswell Records Report 1995 · The Day After Roswell · Karl T. Pflock