For all the years that I've been doing Roswell research I have known that there were two newspapers in Roswell in 1947, (The Roswell Daily Record and The Roswell Morning Dispatch), and two radio stations (KGFL and KSWS), that Lt. Walter Haut had contacted to release the original press release he had written. I had never seen a copy of the "The Roswell Morning Dispatch", so I began a search of several local archives to try and locate it, which included the Historical Society for Southeast New Mexico Archives, the Roswell Public Library, The Chaves County Court House and the Roswell Daily Record newspaper, which has become the only newspaper in Roswell, changing from an afternoon paper to the morning paper, as it remains today. Those searches required a lot of asking questions and looking through July 1947 microfilm. My search was finally successful when almost by accident I located the July 9th, 1947 Roswell Morning Dispatch. Since the original press release went out about noon on July 8th, 1947 I knew the Morning Dispatch wouldn't have anything for July 8th and I limited my search to the following day July 9th, when the cover up was already in place. The Roswell Morning Dispatch headline was two lines:

In a "sub-title" on the front page was another smaller headline that stated:

I thought it was interesting that the word "Disc" was spelled "Disk" in the Morning Dispatch article.

Perhaps other researchers had previously found a copy of the July 9, 1947 "Roswell Morning Dispatch", but I had never seen it, so it was exciting for me to personally discover it. Some of the other headline stories on the front page included a photo of Sheriff Wilcox with a headline of:

Both of these articles were large enough that they were continued on page 8 of the July 9th newspaper. The Roswell Morning Dispatch had other disc articles through the July 11th editions continuing the follow-up, including one with a photo of Kenneth Arnold.

The microfilm machine I used to make copies of the Morning Dispatch articles was only able to copy on 8 ½" x 11" paper, so to get a full size print I had to tape individual sheets together, however I'm hopeful that I can find a way to get a full size copy of the front page done in the future, to preserve it.

It appears that the coverage of what happened near Roswell in 1947 was not only of importance to the media here locally in Roswell, but also across the country as indicated by the many newspaper articles that have been discovered covering both the initial report that we have a flying saucer in our possession, and the cover-up story the following day by General Ramey that it was only a weather balloon.

For me the evidence continues to mount that something of extreme importance happened near Roswell in 1947, based not only on the coverage it received in July 1947, but the continuing efforts by many researchers during the past 30 years with bits and pieces still coming forward. My personal theory remains that what ever was recovered on the Foster ranch, and perhaps at other locations since, is still being back engineered for the benefit of our military, and until that technology (propulsion, guidance, etc) is understood, neither the military or government will admit to the event.

Dennis G. Balthaser

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