The Actual Crash, On Land Leased to Judd McKnight and Jason Ridgeway

MODELING: This entire composite was rendered based upon detailed interviews with Army Counter-Intelligence Agent Frank Kaufmann, Air Intelligence Agent Richard Tungate, 509th Public Relations Officer Walter Haut, and twenty-five other WWII and post-WWII atom bomb group veterans from 1943 through 1955, most of whom are now deceased.

LOCATION: Roswell, New Mexico inside the homes of the witnesses at their kitchen tables.

KEY NOTES: This drawing is tied with two other drawings for my most famous image in books, magazines and on multiple TV shows and news stories. It's a render of the recovery effort organized and led by Colonel/Master Sergeant/Special Agent Frank Kaufmann aka "Pancho" who ran the recovery at 0500 on the morning of 05 July 1947. This drawing was also used heavily for the design of the 1999 "Crash Site" kit.

Featured is Colonel Frank Kaufmann, Roswell Army Airfield Provost Marshal Major Edwin Easley, numerous MPs, other United States Army Counter-Intelligence Corps agents, the dead flight crew and wreck of the spacecraft, stuck in the side of a limestone arroyo like a dart in a dart board.

The ship crashed in a monsoon thunderstorm during the last minute of July 4th, 1947--at 2359 (11:59 PM). This was Bureau of Land Management land, leased to two partnering sheep ranchers by the names of Judd McKnight and Jason Ridgeway 32 miles north of the Roswell town limits.