Military publicly attributed the Roswell debris to balloon material

Record

Date

1947-07

Evidence category

Historical public account (official statement)

Firsthand?

Contemporaneous official statements

Publicly accessible?

Partial

Independent corroboration

1947 press accounts

Assessment

Documented explanation; underlying cause disputed

Notes

Official position, recorded separately from Elizondo's claims. Jason's source: 1947 public statements; contemporary press releases and photos still to be collected. Documented in SRC-007 (USAF 1994 Roswell report): p. 1, the AAF originally identified the debris as a weather balloon; p. 4, Gen. Ramey's statement as reported 9 July 1947; p. 14, the Ramey/Marcel display was mostly a balloon-borne radar target. The 1947 press release itself is still not collected.

Linked case IDs

CASE-003