Roswell: One of Myriad Local Crashes in July 1947

It’s July, and in southern New Mexico that means two things. Monsoon season, as in lots of thunder and lightning that doesn’t always include rain, which is actually related to the second thing, folks revisiting the Roswell Crash of 1947.

Every year in proximity to the Fourth of July, the town of Roswell (113 miles east of my location) hosts a UFO Festival, which I did not attend, but hope to maybe make it for the 80^th anniversary next year. However, I did attend my monthly local MUFON meeting in Alamogordo on Saturday, where Roswell was the inevitable presentation focus.

As a refresher, MUFON stands for Mutual UFO Network, and our local New Mexico chapter is called Flying Saucers and Coffee Cups. Saturday’s meeting specifically addressed how the Roswell Crash was only one of many flying saucer crashes or landings in the region between approximately July 4 and July 8 in 1947.

July 8 is not the actual date of the Roswell Crash, which remains uncertain, but is instead when a local newspaper published a story about a crashed UFO—flying saucer—discovered at a ranch miles outside of Roswell in Corona. That is until the US Army got hold of the situation and haplessly changed the story to a weather balloon.

But the reality is, what’s always been known as the Roswell Crash didn’t actually happen in Roswell. And it may have happened on July 4, like more than a handful of other crashes or landings in the area during a typical monsoon-style thunderstorm rife with lightning. Some speculate it’s the electrical storms that caused the UFOs to crash.

Also, there’s what’s known as the “skip site,” a spot where the flying saucer actually touched down in the desert before crashing at that ranch, which took place miles from the crash debris site in an area the US government now prevents access to. Why is that, if it was only a weather balloon?

One distinction learned from attending MUFON meetings the past six months is the difference between a UFO crash and what’s called a landing. It’s considered a landing if there was no visible damage to the craft. Either can involve actual extraterrestrial entities found dead—or alive. Some remains of the dead also appear dissected, leading to UFO researchers to conclude that the US military conducted autopsies on alien entities.

Actual observer accounts from 1947, including children who later divulged what they saw as adults many decades later (some claim they were warned—and threatened—by the Army to not ever speak of what they saw), include extraterrestrials at crash sites and attempts to communicate with entities described as 4-ft tall with large heads and almond-shaped black eyes. Witnesses also claim the US Army showed up at more than one site and forced citizens to leave public areas where they otherwise had every right to be.

The locations of these flying saucer crashes and landings on or around July 4, 1947 are quite telling for those who live in this area and are aware of their proximity to both Roswell and/or White Sands Missile Range (WSMR):

North Roswell, a mysterious saucer with no visible “escape pod”; Nogal Canyon in Socorro County where the alleged “autopsy” of dissected aliens bodies occurred; the Plains of San Agustin at the Old Horse Springs site where “honeycomb” UFO debris was found, an aircraft technology referenced in my Other Worldly novels, in addition to something dubbed memory metal described as liquid-like; the Mescalero Indian Reservation, most definitely not land over which the Army has jurisdiction and only 30 miles from me; and none other than a documented UFO on the Tularosa Gunnery Range at WSMR, where the craft was described as egg-shaped with a flat bottom, domed top, and no windows or landing gear.

Hence, an obvious takeaway from everything learned at MUFON meetings so far—and also from the 2026 movie, The Cosmic Trigger: Trinity 1945, recently addressed in this blog on May 19, “Human Warmongers Do Indeed Attract Alien Observation”—is that so many alien spacecraft were in the vicinity of this particular region of New Mexico precisely because of the notorious 1945 Trinity Test. Back when the US became the first to detonate an atomic bomb less than twenty miles from where I currently reside, at what is now known as the White Sands Missile Range (the acronym, WSMR, is pronounced wizmer, as also learned via MUFON).

Indeed, nefarious and environmentally destructive US military rocket launches continued to take place there in the years following, so it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce that perhaps that’s the maniacal magnet that drew extraterrestrial scrutiny.  Which explains why I found nothing humorous about one MUFON meeting attendee snarking it up about why so many aliens would be “visiting” the Alamogordo area in July 1947, intimating that this is not exactly an interesting place.

Nevertheless, this affiliated Roswell Crash information might prove useful fodder to engage in a bit of snark of my own as I prepare to draft final segments of my eighth OW novel, Alien Origins. Wherein Rowan Layne will visit this very region of New Mexico, because there is always truth in interesting fiction, and I suspect the aliens in my novels have their own take on what was happening here in 1947.

Do you think the US military might have been somehow culpable in causing so many UFO crashes on or around July 4, 1947? After all, alien visitors are usually seen in movies as harboring sinister plans to attack humans and destroy Earth. Kind of like that 1996 blockbuster  movie, Independence Day. If not, why does DoD continue to engage in a ridiculous coverup?

Oh and, it’s fixing to storm for the umpteenth time here this month. Welcome to July in southern New Mexico 🙂