Robert Porter(Robert PORTER, Robert R. PORTER). |
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By mere coincidence, Robert Porter, a New Mexico native, was one of the brothers of Loretta Proctor, a neighbor of William "Mac" Brazel who also saw the debris found by the latter; and Porter was the flight engineer of the crew of the B-29 which flew the debris from Roswell to Fort Worth.
Robert Porter was at the time of the incident in 1947 Master Technical Sergeant in the Army Air Force and stationed at the Roswell field. He mainly dealt with fuel and engines management in the large bombers B-29 as flight engineer.
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AFFIDAVIT (1) My name is Robert R. Porter (2) My address is: [Retained] (3) I am (X) retired ( ) employed as: (4) In July 1947, I was a Master Sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Force, stationed at Roswell, New Mexico. I was a flight engineer. My job entailed taking care of the engines in flight, maintaining weight and balance, and I was responsible for fuel management. We mostly flew B-29s. (5) On this occasion, I was a member of the crew which flew parts of what we were told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included: Lt. Col. Payne Jennings, the Deputy Commander of the base; Lt. Col. Robert I. Barrowclough; Maj. Herb Wunderlich; and Maj. Jesse Marcel. Capt. William E. Anderson said it was from a flying saucer. After we arrived, the material was transferred to a B-25. I was told they were going to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. (6) I was involved in loading the B-29 with the material, which was wrapped in packages with wrapping paper. One of the pieces was triangle-shaped, about 2 1/2 feet across the bottom. The rest were in small packages, about the size of a shoe box. The brown paper was held with tape. (7) The material was extremely lightweight. When I picked it up, it was just like picking up an empty package. We loaded the triangle-shaped package and three shoe box-sized packages into the plane. All of the packages could have fit into the trunk of a car. (8) After we landed at Fort Worth, Col Jennings told us to take care of maintenance of the plane and that after a guard was posted, we could eat lunch. When we came back from lunch, they told us they had transferred the material to a B-25. They told us the material was a weather balloon, but I'm certain it wasn't a weather balloon. I think the government should let the people know what's going on. (9) I have not been paid or given anything of value to make this statement, which is the truth to the best of my recollection. Signed: Robert R. Porter June 7, 1991 Signature witnessed by: |
B-29 flight engineer Robert R. Porter was also interviewed by Stephen Johnson, a reporter at the Houston Chronicle newspaper:
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New Mexico native Army Air Force flight engineer Robert Porter knew nothing of his sister Loretta Proctor being asked by William "Mac" Brazel to look at a piece of unusual debris when he was asked to help fly the wreckage to Fort Worth on July 8, 1947. Retired from the Air Force and now living in Great Falls, Mt., Porter remembers being told to man a B-29 carrying the wreckage to Eighth Air Force headquarters in Fort Worth. The 76-year-old Porter said he'd heard nothing about the so-called saucer crash when he was ordered to man a B-29 bomber for a flight to Wright Field, Ohio with a stop at Fort Worth. "They handed it (the debris) through the hatch," he recalled. It was real light and wrapped in brown wrapping paper and taped." "There wasn't more than about four or five pieces of it and one triangular piece about 18 inches across by two feet and the rest was in boxes like shoe boxes." Porter said he and his fellow crew members stayed on the field until the material was unexpectedly transferred to a smaller B-25 bomber that flew on to Wright Field. "We just turned around and went back to Roswell," said Porter. Porter said that shortly after the flight he and his sister discussed what Brazel had shown her and they decided that it must have been what he and his fellow crew members flew to Fort Worth. Porter also knew Brazel, describing him as a "quiet" man. "You could believe anything he said." |
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