nd Captain Sheridan Cavitt decided to drive out to the crash site themselves. When they arrived and seen the site they decided that the wreckage was not from this world, so they decided to contact the pentagon. However by this time the pentagon already knew what was happening in Roswell and General Clemence was told to tell the Roswell Army Field that they must cover the whole thing up (www.nbci.com). 2There were also many small accounts and encounters with what people believe to be UFOs in the area. There was activity in Roswell even four years before the crash, but the activity increased greatly just three weeks before the crash. Several American Air lines Planes reported picking up strange activity on there radars just 20 miles away from the sight of the crash during flights later in the evening (www.parascope.com). Many night’s witnesses also recall seeing jet fighters leave the air force base in the direction of the objects at supersonic speeds, one of these chases was said to happen on the night of July 2 just 2 days before the crash. A local private pilot in Roswell Kenneth Arnold told another account. Arnold was flying near MT. Ranier when he recalls seeing nine objects traveling at apparent supersonic speeds in the direction of Roswell. Arnold described the objects as moving through the air in a skipping motion like saucers skipping across the surface of the water. A few minutes later he also recalls seeing a formation of jets heading in the direction the apparent UFOs went in close pursuit (www.parascope.com).3One of the best witness accounts comes from the army and its radar operators themselves. The object began appearing on military radars many days before the crash. On July 1 all the officers and technicians had been tracking the object on their radars, they reported that at times the object would just seem to disappear and reappear on screen suddenly. They said that it couldn’t have been a malfunction in the...
