| Like most UFO incidents denied by the U.S. | | | | Major Jesse Marcel, the officer originally sent to |
| Government, the 1947 Roswell crash refuses to | | | | investigate the crash scene. Although Sprouse |
| go away quietly. Each time a government | | | | knew Marcel, he wasn't able to speak to him |
| spokesperson invents a new explanation to | | | | after the crash. Milton recalls, "I could never get |
| contradict the theory that an alien spacecraft | | | | close to him." |
| crashed near Roswell, one or more new | | | | Most of the men knew about the radar reflecting |
| witnesses come forward to support the original | | | | balloons and saw the material that the Air Force |
| Air Force statement. That statement called the | | | | tried to pass off as what crashed in early July of |
| object a 'flying disc' and left us with the | | | | 1947. It wasn't the same. The radar balloons |
| impression that the occupants weren't quite | | | | came down everywhere in those days and most |
| human. | | | | everyone that lived in Roswell saw some at one |
| Milton Sprouse, age eighty-five, lives in Escondido, | | | | time or another. What they saw at the crash site |
| California. In 1947, he was an engine mechanic and | | | | was something else, and the buzz around base |
| part of the 393rd Bomb Group connected to the | | | | wasn't just about strange metallic material. |
| 509th Composite Group at Roswell. Milton arrived | | | | Milton said that he heard talk about odd bodies |
| in Roswell during 1945 after serving on the Pacific | | | | found out at the crash scene. One of the men |
| Island of Tinian towards the end of World War | | | | from his barracks was an emergency room |
| Two. When the aircraft he was servicing was | | | | medic. He told Sprouse and others that |
| moved to Roswell, he was sent there as well. | | | | "humanoid" bodies were brought in after the |
| As the lead mechanic for Dave's Dream, he didn't | | | | crash. The medic's story gave him the impression |
| find the area especially exciting. "There was | | | | that one or more of the creatures might have |
| nothing there but tumbleweeds blowing for miles," | | | | been alive because he said, "We don't think the |
| Sprouse said in a recent interview. All that | | | | humanoid ate food." Milton also remembers how |
| changed in July of 1947. After returning from a | | | | everything changed the day after the original |
| brief trip to Florida aboard Dave's Dream, Milton | | | | 'flying disc' statement was made. |
| found himself thrust into a hurricane of activity. | | | | Milton recalls, "The next day, it was published in |
| Back at the base on the day when the original | | | | the Roswell Daily Record, and that night, all the |
| 'flying disc' statement was released, he | | | | generals said the story was untrue." He continued |
| remembered how hundreds of men from the | | | | on to say that officers from the base were sent |
| base were sent out to the crash site to pick up all | | | | into town to collect all the copies of the press |
| the debris they could find. | | | | release and newspaper with the original 'flying disc' |
| Milton was needed at the base because of his | | | | story in it that they could find. The medic was |
| position as lead mechanic. However, five other | | | | transferred elsewhere along with the doctors and |
| members of his crew went to the crash site. | | | | nurses that saw the odd-looking creatures. What |
| After returning, they told Sprouse that what they | | | | became of the humanoids? "They took the bodies |
| saw looked "Out of this world." They were | | | | to a hangar, and there were two guards at each |
| describing the material which looked like aluminum | | | | door with machine guns," Milton said. Sprouse was |
| foil, but refused to crumple and seemed almost | | | | referring to Hangar 84. |
| indestructible. The same description was used by | | | | |