The Roswell site(s)

There are a few sites of interest in the Roswell case: The debris field on the Foster ranch; the bluff where Dee Proctor said “Mack found something else” (two bodies thrown clear of the wreckage); and the ultimate impact site.

I’ve been trying to figure out the exact location of the impact site. If it’s true that there was a single survivor then this would have been where the “patient” (mentioned in Ramey’s memo) was recovered, along with more bodies and the bulk of the craft.

The impact site was apparently discovered by a small group of archaeologists on Saturday, July 5, 1947. They called Sheriff Wilcox, who called the local fire department. Schmitt claims that, once the military became aware of the impact site, it was cleaned and secured within six hours. The craft and the bodies were transported to Hangar 84, where Blanchard would later show them to Haut.

On Tuesday, July 8, 1947, Rickett says he accompanied his superior, Cavitt, to a site about 45 minutes north of Roswell. This would have been a second trip for Cavitt, who had already gone out with Brazel and Marcell the previous day (initially to survey the debris field).

Rickett says they passed through an armed checkpoint and proceeded another 100 yards down a dirt trail. He says Easley and his MPs were guarding the perimeter in a circle. I assume this was the impact site, which Haut described as “the more important site” in the eyes of General Ramey and the Pentagon.

Rickett states that the craft was already gone but that “it looks like something landed here”. He describes picking up a piece of slightly curved, featherlight metal. He tried unsuccessfully to bend it over his knee.

The site pictured is about 50 minutes north of Roswell (today) and just off Highway 285. If this is the impact site then the three sites form a fairly straight line in an ESE direction. The distance between them indicates the object was moving at an extraordinary speed in order to skip off the debris field and finally come to rest at the impact site.

It seems to be a flattened peak, about 25m square, which looks to me to be anomalous within the landscape. I remember Schmitt, in one of his books, making a passing reference to a peak that seemed to have been leveled.

Can someone tell me why it would look like that? Is it a natural occurrence or more common than I think? Did the army just cut the top off a hill to make sure they didn’t leave any evidence behind? Or to remove a recognisable landmark?

Is aerial photography available from the time that would help us determine roughly when the hill was leveled, if that’s indeed what happened?