"Mac" Brazel was the first to discover debris from the crash of a flying saucer when he was checking on the herds after a severe thunderstorm. Along with him was his neighbor, the son of Floyd and Loretta Proctor. He later also showed them the unique metal pieces that he found on the debris field that morning. The Proctors supposed that the UFO piece would possibly represent something important and suggested Mac to bring it in to the sheriff in Roswell. Mac owned Foster Ranch in Corona, New Mexico, where he raised sheep and cattle. On July 4, 1997, the owner of KGFL radio Walter Whitmore interviewed Mac about the incident.

Sheriff Wilcox at Roswell saw the metal pieces and was puzzled by its distinct quality, so he called in the military. Mac was put under house arrest, and he was forbidden to go on the streets of Roswell without a military escort. When he was released, Brazel changed his story and stated that the debris was actually found in mid-June. He was later reported in the Roswell Daily Record as saying he wished he'd never mentioned it.

Mac Brazel's children, Bessie and William also reported that they saw the debris. His son also gave his father's words to the media as following, "My dad found this thing and he told me a little bit about it, not much, because the Air Force asked him to take an oath that he wouldn't tell anybody in detail about it. He went to his grave and he never told anybody."

Loretta Proctor and her husband Floyd were both ranchers in Corona, New Mexico in 1947. They were both amazed when Mac Brazel came and showed them the odd metal pieces. Eventually they decided to burn and cut the metal. Mrs. Proctor remembers she saw from Brazel a light weight wood-like piece, 7" long about the width of a pencil, an aluminum foil-like piece that resumed its shape after attempted crushing, and a light piece of metal that had pinkish violet glyphs inscribed upon it.

Sheriff George Wilcox was first to handle the curious debris from Mac Brazel. He was told by the higher authority to not report anything he saw to the public. Barbara, his granddaughter, who was interviewed recently said her grandmother, Inez, told her, "When the incident happened, the military police came out to the jailhouse and told George and I that if we ever told anything about the incident, not only would we be killed, but our entire family would be killed."

On Roswell Daily Record on July 8, 1947, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Wilmot gave an account of their encounter of a flying disc on the evening of July 2 at 9:50 p.m.

"Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour. In appearance it looked oval in shape like two inverted saucers, faced mouth to mouth, or like two old type washbowls placed, together in the same fashion. The entire body glowed as though light were showing through from inside, though not like it would inside, though not like it would be if a light were merely underneath. From where he stood Wilmot said that the object looked to be about 5 feet in size, and making allowance for the distance it was from town he figured that it must have been 15 to 20 feet in diameter....The object came into view from the southeast and disappeared over the treetops in the general vicinity of six mile hill...The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one came only a few minutes after he decided to release the details of what he had seen."

Major Jesse Marcel, Sr, the Intelligence officer of the 509th of the Roswell Army Air Force was contacted by Sheriff Wilcox to examine the metal pieces found by rancher Mac Brazel. He followed Brazel back to the debris field right after where he collected as much evidences as possible and brought them back to his house in which his son Dr. Jesse Marcel Jr.too witnessed them.

"The many rumors regarding the flying disk became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disk through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County."