THE SERGEANT WHO SUFFERED

John Price is a Roswell resident who became acquainted with a man with a remarkable story to tell about the crash event. In 1994, Price has met up with 78 year old Thomas Gonzalez. a Sergeant in the 509th in July of 1947. Military documents -including his picture in the Base Yearbook- confirm Gonzalez' service at that time. Price asked Thomas if he recalled anything about the incident in 1947. Thomas answered in the affirmative. After returning from Europe at the end of WW II, he was transferred to Roswell Army Air Field. He said that he, his wife and his children were living at the base at that time. He then told Price that he was tasked to act as a guard at the Roswell crash site. Gonzalez said that he remembered the site well.

There were bodies of what he described as "little men." The "little men" were human-like with slightly larger heads and eyes. "Little men" is the precise term used by Lt. Governor Montoya. Like Montoya, Gonzalez said that there were four of them, and - like Montoya- that one was still alive. Gonzalez said that there was a bizarre "airfoil" and a "horrible smell" associated with the cadavers. Gonzalez was so moved by the sight that he had carved out of wood -and had shown to Price- "figures" of the beings. Gonzalez' son verified that his father had told him this Roswell story in the 1960s.

In the 1994 Vol. 9, No. 5 edition of UFO Magazine, researcher Don Ecker relates his discussion with Thomas Gonzalez: "Gonzalez said he was sent overseas right after the crash, causing undue hardship on his wife and family. And like many witnesses to the event, it affected him for many years. He admitted to drinking heavily after the event- a syndrome which has been reported by a number of other witnesses."

RUINATION OF A RANCHER

Dee Proctor was an original witness to the Roswell crash site. As a youngster in July of 1947 he worked with ranch manager Mac Brazel helping with range duties. On horseback, they both came across the strange debris field of a crashed object on the Foster Ranch. Dee's mother confirmed to researchers in the early 1990s that her son Dee was returned home from the ranch by Mac and that Mac had shown her a piece of the wreckage that she maintains to this very day did not come from Earth.

Dee though, avoided talking to researchers throughout his entire life. Dee grew up to be a rancher, just like Mac Brazel. From 1991 -when it became known that he, along with Brazel, was an original witness and discoverer of the crash site- till the time of his death at age 66 in January of 2006 of cardiac arrest- Dee managed to somehow never speak publicly about what he and Mac had found. It was Mac Brazel's son (Bill Brazel) who told a researcher that Dee was involved. Dee's mother Loretta reluctantly confirmed this in later interviews.

Only once did Dee speak of the event to someone outside his family. In the mid 1990s, noted author and researcher Kevin Randle did talk to Dee by telephone. Randle was actually calling for Dee's mother Loretta. Dee happened to be visiting and answered the phone. During this "accidental" conversation, Randle managed to ask Dee some questions about the incident. Dee confirmed that he was in fact with Brazel at the debris field. Speaking sparsely, Dee said that military authorities had talked to him in the days following the discovery. There was a field of metallic debris that he believed to be from another world, and that later he had taken some friends out to the site. Randle said that Dee was too polite to hang up, but sensed that Dee was angered about having to talk with Randle. In 1996 Loretta Proctor revealed that Dee had taken her out to the desert to a site two years previously where Dee would only indicate he and Mac had found "something else."

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