And the skies above New Mexico were not immune. She was Miss B.A. Tillery of Newcomb, a trading post on the Navajo reservation. There are six New Mexicans living who played some direct part in the events that would later become known internationally as the Roswell Incident. On this 50th anniversary, each has agreed to tell the Journal his or her story. Fifty years is a long time.
Dates become fuzzy.
The details remembered by one witness contradict those remembered by another. Events are recounted, books are written, documentaries made and stories begin to take on lives of their own. This is the living history of the purported July crash, told by the people who were there. Loretta Proctor, 82. They were carrying boxes of strange-looking material.