Brazel kept in military custody as per two witnesses:
https://ufologie.patrickgross.org/rw/d/iur1999cs.htm
There are a couple of related and informative 'Associated Press' news releases:
FORT WORTH, Tex., July 8 (AP) The discovery of a "flying disk" reported by an Army public relations officer proved a dud today when the object was identified as a weather balloon.
Warrant Officer Irving Newton, a forecaster at the Army's Eighth Air Force weather station here, said the object found near Roswell, N. M, was a ray wind target used to determine the direction and velocity of winds at high altitudes.
He said there were some 80 weather stations in the United States using this type of balloon and that it could have come from any one of them.
"We use them because they can go so much higher than the eye can see," Newton explained. A radar set is employed to follow the balloon and through a process of triangulation the winds aloft are charted, he added.
When rigged up, Newton stated. the object looks like a six pointed star, is silvery in appearance, and rises in the air like a kite, mounted to a 100 gram balloon.
Newton said he had sent up identical balloons to this one during the invasion of Okinawa to determine ballistics information for heavy guns.
Maj. Gen. Roger M. Ramey, commander of the Eighth Air force with headquarters here, also said in a radio broadcast tonight that the "flying disk" was a weather balloon.
The weather device had been found three weeks previously by a New Mexico rancher, W. W. Brazell,, on his property about 85 miles northwest of Roswell Brazell, whose ranch is 30 miles from the nearest telephone and has no radio, knew nothing about flying disks when he found the broken remains of the weather device scattered over a square mile of his land.
He bundled the tinfoil and broken wooden beams of the kite and the torn synthetic rubber remains of the balloon together and rolled it under some rush, according to Maj. Jesse A. Marcel, Houma, La, 509th Bomb group intelligence officer at Roswell, who brought the device to Fort Worth.
On a trip to town at Corona, N. M. Saturday night, Brazell heard the first reference to the "silver" flying disks, Maj. Marcel related.
Brazell hurried home, dug up the remnants of the kite and balloon on Sunday and Monday headed for Roswell to report his find to the sheriff's office.
This resulted in a call to Roswell Army air field and to Maj. Marcel's being assigned to the case. Marcell and Brazell journeyed back to the ranch, where Marcell took the object into the custody of the Army.
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ROSWELL, N.M.,9 JULY (AP) W. W. Brazel, the New Mexico rancher who was originally thought to have found the nation's first "flyin disc" is sorry he said anything about it.
The 48-year-old New Mexican said he was amazed at the fuss made over his discovery.
"If I find anything else short of a bomb it's going to be hard to get me to talk," he told the Associated Press here early this morning.
Brazel's discovery was reported Tuesday afternoon by Lt. Warren Hauht, Roswell Army Air Field public relations officer, as definitely being one of the "flying discs" that have puzzled and worried citizens of forty-three states during the past several weeks.
The statement was later discounted by Brig. General Roger Ramey commanding general of the Eighth Air Force of which the RAAF is a component. Gen Ramey said Brazel's discovery was a weather radar target.
But Brazel wasn't making any claims. He said he didn't know what it was.
He described his find as consistIng of large numbers of pleces of paper covered with a foll-like substance, and pleced together with small sticks, much like a kite. Scattered with the materials over an area about 200 yards across were pieces of grey rubber. All the pleces were small.
"At first I thought it was a kite, but we couldn't put it together like any kite I ever saw." he said. "It wasn't a kite."
Brazel related this story:
While riding the range on his ranch thirty miles southeast of, Corona, N.M., on June 14 he sighted some shiny objects. He picked up a piece of the stuff and took it to the ranch house seven miles away.
On July 4, he returned to the site with his wife and two of his children, Vernon, 8, and Bessie, 14. They gathered all the pleces they could find. The largest was about three feet across..
Brazet said he hadn't heard ot the "flying dises" at the time, but several days later his brother-in law, Hollis Wilson, told him of the disc reports, and suggested it might be one.
"When I went to Roswell I told Sheriff George Wilcox about it," he continued. "I was a little, bit ashamed to mention it, because I didn't know what it was.
"Asked the sheriff to keep it kinda quiet," he added with a chuckle. "I thought folks would kid me about it."
Sheriff Wilcox referred the discovery to Intelligence officers at the Roswell Army Air Field, and Major Jesse A. Marcel and a man in civilian clothes whom Brazel was unable to identify went to the ranch and brought the places of material to the air field.
"I didn't hear any more about it until things started popping." sald Brazel. "Lord, how that story has travelied." Brazel said he did not see the thing before it fell, and it was badly torn up when he found It.
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Monday; Brazell tells the sheriff anout his find. He returns to the ranch with Marcel.
Wednesday: Brazill is interviewed and laments 'all the fuss' it has caused. However, the story is now effectively old news.
It's that familiar problem with second-hand stories, told many years afterwards.
When was he ever in jail for a week and why?
