1.1 The "Crash Sites," Scenarios, and Research Methods
The "Crash Sites"
From 1947 until the late 1970s, the Roswell Incident was confined to one alleged crash site. This site, located on the Foster Ranch approximately 75 miles northwest of the city of Roswell, was the actual landing site of a Project MOGUL balloon train in June 1947. $ ^{10} $ The MOGUL landing site is referred to in popular Roswell literature as the "debris field."
In the 1970s, the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, additional witnesses came forward with claims and descriptions of two other alleged crash sites. One of these sites was supposedly north of Roswell, the other site was alleged to have been approximately 175 miles northwest of Roswell in an area of New Mexico known as the San Agustin Plains. $ ^{11} $ What distinguished the two new crash sites from the original debris field were accounts of alien bodies.
Fig. 11. Map of New Mexico depicting the "crash sites" and "debris field."