As reported in the Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947, front page.

Harassed Rancher who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About It

W. W. Brazel, 48, Lincoln county rancher living 30 miles south east of
Corona, today told his story of finding what the army at first described
as a flying disk, but the publicity which attended his find caused him
to add that if he ever found anything short of a bomb he sure wasn't
going to say anything about it.

Brazel was brought here late yesterday by W. E. Whitmore, of radio
station KGFL, had his picture taken and gave an interview to the Record
and Jason Kellahin, sent here from the Albuquerque bureau of the
Associated Press to cover the story.  The picture he posed for was sent
out over AP telephoto wire sending machine specially set up in the
Record office by R. D. Adair, AP wire chief sent here from Albuquerque
for the sole purpose of getting out his picture and that of sheriff
George Wilcox, to whom Brazel originally gave the information of his
find.

Brazel related that on June 14 he and an 8-year old son, Vernon were
about 7 or 8 miles from the ranch house of the J. B. Foster ranch, which
he operates, when they came upon a large area of bright wreckage made up
on rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks.

At the time Brazel was in a hurry to get his round made and he did not
pay much attention to it.  But he did remark about what he had seen and
on July 4 he, his wife, Vernon and a daughter Betty, age 14, went back
to the spot and gathered up quite a bit of the debris.

The next day he first heard about the flying disks, and he wondered if
what he had found might be the remnants of one of these.

Monday he came to town to sell some wool and while here he went to see
sheriff George Wilcox and "whispered kinda confidential like" that he
might have found a flying disk.

Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse A.
Marcel and a man in plain clothes accompanied him home, where they
picked up the rest of the pieces of the "disk" and went to his home to
try to reconstruct it.

According to Brazel they simply could not reconstruct it at all. They
tried to make a kite out of it, but could not do that and could not find
any way to put it back together so that it would fit.

Then Major Marcel brought it to Roswell and that was the last he heard
of it until the story broke that he had found a flying disk.

Brazel said that he did not see it fall from the sky and did not see it
before it was torn up, so he did not know the size or shape it might
have been, but he thought it might have been about as large as a table
top.  the balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have
been about 12 feet long, he flet, measuring the distance by the size of
the room in which he sat.  The rubber was smoky gray in color and
scattered over an area about 200 yards in diameter.

When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks
made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches thick, while the
rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about inches thick.
In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five
pounds.

There was no sighn of any metal in the area which might have been used
for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at
least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil.

There were no words to be found anywhere on the instrument, although
there were letters on some of the parts.  Considerable scotch tape and
some tape with flowers printed upon it had been used in the
construction.

No strings or wire were to be found but there were some eyelets in the
paper to indicate that some sort of attachment may have been used.

Brazel said that he had previously found two weather observation
balloons on the ranch, but that what he found this time did not in any
way resemble either of these.

"I am sure what found was not any weather observation balloon," he said.
"But if find anything else, besides a bomb they are going to have a hard
time getting me to say anything about it."