Roswell Dispatch July 9, 1947 Front Page Discovered

 

Above, the July 9, 1947 edition of the Roswell Morning Dispatch.

This is the first time I've heard of the Roswell Morning Dispatch, but it was another newspaper published in Roswell, New Mexico during the time of the famous Roswell Incident involving a crashed flying saucer. The famous July 8, 1947 front page of the Roswell Daily Record on the flying saucer is very familiar one as it has been posted for years. I have a reprint copy framed and hung in my living room.

The Roswell Morning Dispatch front page of July 9, 1947 has been recently discovered. Why it has taken 75 years to be discovered is a mystery. 

U.S. News & World Report posted:

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — The Roswell incident has been one of the most thoroughly researched and debated mysteries in the history of the UFO phenomenon and among the most enduring.

Barring a major revelation between now and July, Roswell will mark the 75th anniversary of the alleged 1947 UFO crash with the debate over what occurred here far from settled.

That hasn’t been for a lack of digging. For decades now, journalists, authors, documentary film crews and others fascinated by the incident have unearthed and publicized countless bits of information and artifacts of that time.

Along the way, they’ve brought attention to many pieces of Roswell history, such as the July 1947 front pages of the Roswell Daily Record that recorded initial reports of the incident along with a follow-up version of events presented by the military that some now view as one of history’s greatest cover-ups.

The intensity of focus placed on the Roswell incident for three-quarters of a century has led some to posit that most contemporaneous records have already been scrutinized. But one piece of local history recently uncovered provides an interesting companion to those iconic 1947 headlines the public has become familiar with — while adding yet more pages to a still-growing historical record.

The Roswell Morning Dispatch, a long-defunct sister newspaper of the Roswell Daily Record, was published in the mornings from 1928-1950. The Dispatch covered the news of the day, and as such, it carried accounts in July 1947 of the unfolding events related to the alleged recovery of a crashed “Flying Disk” outside Roswell, along with the military’s explanations for what had occurred.

Its historical headlines were discovered among archived editions of the newspaper, the Daily Record reported.

Above, the famous Roswell Daily Record front page of July 8, 1947 on
display at the Roswell International UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

There must be a July 8, 1947 front page of the Roswell Morning Dispatch floating around somewhere, waiting to be discovered. That is the date the Roswell Daily Record published its famous flying saucer headline.

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