After more than 44 years of silence, a former U.S. serviceman has come forward with a testimony about UFO sightings that involved hundreds of U.S. military personnel near Roswell, New Mexico in 1971.
In a testimony submitted on December 30, 2015, and filed as case number 73443 in the archives of the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), the unnamed former serviceman said that while conducting “military maneuvers” in the New Mexico desert, west of Roswell, in July, 1971, he and his unit, consisting of more than 500 soldiers, watched two saucer-shaped UFOs flying “erratically” in the sky for about five hours.
The witness told MUFON — an organization that documents and investigates reports of UFO sightings worldwide — that his memories of the incident remain vivid 44 years after it happened and that it will remain “etched in my mind until I pass.”
According to the witness, in July, 1971, he was sent with his unit, the US Army Air Defense Unit, stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas, on “military maneuvers in the New Mexico desert.” The witness described the military unit as a “Chaparral-Vulcan defense unit… trained to recognize all foreign and domestic aircraft.”
While the unit was conducting military drills in the New Mexico desert before dawn, two UFOs appeared and flew erratically in the sky for five hours.
“The first object was spotted coming from the north and stopped. Another object approached from the west. For the next five hours, the objects made erratic moves remaining in a close area,” the witness reported.