Seven UFO Crashes & Retrievals in New Mexico 1945–1948
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Seven UFO Crashes & Retrievals in New Mexico 1945–1948 Presented to Highlands Ranch Historical Society June 17, 2017 Greetings. My name is Chuck Wade. I truly feel it is an honor to stand before you today to give you my presentation entitled. “ Seven UFO Crashes and Retrievals in New Mexico, 1945 – 1948.” The picture on this page is from my website’s home page. In my hands I am holding two pieces of foil that Mr. Art Campbell and I retrieved from the UFO crash site on the Plains of San Augustin, New Mexico. Please don’t ask questions during the talk. If there is time, I will be happy to take questions at the end. Also, I will be here after my talk and I encourage you to introduce yourselves and continue the discussion. 1 I’ll start my presentation by introducing you to the map of New Mexico with the seven UFO crash sites and related features identified. 2 1. The first UFO crash was at San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945. This craft was 25’ to 30’ long and “avocado-shaped”. 2. The second UFO crash happened the night of 1-2 July 1947 on the Plains of San Augustin, New Mexico. This craft was 32’ in diameter. 3. The third UFO crash is being studied by MUFON investigators Chuck Zukowski and Debbie Ziegelmeyer. They are calling this site the Alternative Site, southwest of Roswell. I theorize this crash happened the night of 4 July 1947 and may have been a 25’ oval-shaped craft. 4. The fourth UFO crash occurred ar the Haut/Corso site north of Roswell the night of 4 July 1947. I contend that this crash changed the course of history. 5. The fifth UFO site is the Corona Debris Field located 75 miles northwest of Roswell and 30 miles southeast of my home town – Corona, New Mexico. We now know the craft was 100’ in diameter, and we know that it scattered truckloads of debris at the Corona Debris Field. 6. The sixth UFO crash site is the Jim Ragsdale site located 53 miles west of Roswell in the foothills of the Capitan Mountains. This craft was 20’ in diameter. 7. The seventh UFO site is located in Hart Canyon about 9 miles north of Aztec, New Mexico. This craft was 100’ in diameter and landed completely intact on 25 March 1948. 3 Most of you do not know me so I will give you a brief bio of myself. I was born in 1939 and raised in the small town of Corona, New Mexico. My dad owned the Wade Bar in Corona for 42 years. If any of you traveled US Highway 54 between El Paso, Texas and Tucumcari, New Mexico during the 40’s, 50’s, 60’s, and early 70’s, there’s a good chance you stopped at Wade Bar for a pit stop and a soda. I graduated from Corona High School in 1957. I truly wanted to be an engineer so I tried college a couple of times, but I did poorly. I joined the Navy in 1959 and served four years active duty with the Naval Seabees. I remained in the Naval Seabee Reserves for the next 12 years, then finished my Navy career with 14 years in the Naval Civil Engineering Corps. I did receive a Civil Engineering degree from New Mexico State University in 1968. I even made the Dean’s List! I had the good fortune to marry Nancy in 1965. We have two grown children. After graduating from NMSU I worked for a large general contracting company for eight years. One interesting assignment I had was when the company was awarded several contracts to build more than 100 air traffic control towers, scattered throughout the United States. When we started building towers there were four regional superintendents, each overseeing the construction of about 25 towers. By the end of the job I was the last superintendent overseeing all the remaining unfinished towers. For a while I had 19 towers under construction in 15 states. I consistently visited each tower at least once a week. 4 Nancy and I and our two children moved to Gallup, New Mexico in 1977 and started our own general contracting business in 1978. We ran Wade Building Company for twenty-two years. In 1999 my military retirement kicked in and we closed our business so that I could spend more time with my two hobbies, Alternative Energy and UFO’s. As I said, I grew up in Corona, New Mexico, right in the middle of the state. The events that came to be known as “the Roswell incident” in 1947 actually happened 30 miles southeast of Corona. Mac Brazel found a large amount of debris on the Foster Ranch, where he was the foreman, Mac came to Corona and requested my dad to close the bar and go out to the ranch to help him determine what caused all that debris. Mac told Dad that his sheep would not cross the debris to go to water. Dad declined Mac’s request, but Dad DID suggest that Mac report this event to the military in Roswell. I have heard my dad say many times that he wished he had gone with Mac. Mac then went up to the Corona Drugstore and asked Geraldine and Archie Perkins to go out to the ranch to help him. They also declined to go with Mac, but Geraldine helped Mac make a phone call to Roswell. Geraldine told me this story on two different occasions in front of her daughter. 5 In 1980 the book The Roswell Incident by Berliner and Moore came out. As I was reading this book I got more and more excited, for there it was in print—items about a UFO crashing in 1947 southeast of Corona—that I had known about since I was seven years old! In the book, The Roswell Incident, there was a picture of Bill Brazel, Mac Brazel’s son. The caption under the picture stated that Bill had shown some artifacts from the debris field on the Foster Ranch, in my dad’s bar there in Corona. A few days later the military came to the ranch and confiscated the artifacts. I had known Bill since I was a kid, so when I read that caption I called him at his home in Capitan, New Mexico. We chatted for a while and he asked how my mother was doing, for my dad had passed away three years before. Mother was doing well at the time. I then read to Bill the caption under his picture and asked him, ―Is this true? He said, ―Yes! I made up my mind at that time that I wanted to know more about the UFO that crashed southeast of Corona in 1947. Over the last thirty- five years I have been on a quest to find out what my father did not see on the Foster Ranch. 6 My mother, Ollie D Wade, passed away in 1989. A couple of years before her passing, Mother and I went out to the Proctor Ranch to visit with Loretta Proctor. Mother and Loretta had been lifelong friends. Loretta told Mother and me about Mac Brazel bringing some of the crash debris over to their house. Floyd, Loretta’s husband, was unable to cut the debris or even scratch it. He tried burning a piece and it would not burn. Loretta said that this stuff did not look like anything she had ever seen before or since. My dad, Jesse Wade, was born in 1902 in Arlington, Texas one year before the Wright Brothers made their historic flight. New Mexico became a state in 1912; in the summer of 1912 my dad’s parents loaded him and all their belongings on a horse- drawn covered wagon and came to New Mexico as homesteaders. Their homestead was close to where the Proctor Ranch is today. Dad and Floyd Proctor were childhood friends back in Texas. A few years after the Wades came to New Mexico, Floyd Proctor rode a bicycle from Arlington, Texas to Corona, New Mexico and lived with Dad and his parents. 7 In the mid 1990’s I purchased the (then) latest book about the UFO crash near Corona, titled UFO Crash at Roswell. I was reading this book in my vehicle outside the bar in Corona when Robert Porter came over to talk. Robert Porter is Loretta Proctor’s brother; Robert’s mother and younger sisters were our neighbors for many years there in Corona. Robert saw the book I was reading and said, “I’m mentioned in that book.” Robert had been a B-29 flight engineer stationed in Roswell in 1947. He told me that he had handled some of the boxes of debris that were retrieved from the Corona Debris Field and sent to Fort Worth. He said the boxes were very light. In the early 1940’s our government built what became the Los Alamos National Laboratories near Santa Fe, New Mexico’s capital. The purpose of this facility was to research and build an atomic bomb. While Los Alamos was being built, three High-Powered radar units were also built to guard the skies over Los Alamos. One of these High-Powered Radar sites was at El Vado, New Mexico, near the Colorado border. The second High-Powered Radar unit was built near Continental Divide, New Mexico, near the Arizona border. The third High- powered Radar was a mobile unit stationed at Moriarty close to the center of New Mexico.