Person
Irving Newton
Also known as Warrant Officer Newton, Maj. Irving Newton
- Warrant officer and weather forecaster, Fort Worth Army Air Field (1947); Major, USAF (ret.)
Irving Newton was the only weather forecaster on duty at Fort Worth Army Air Field on 8 July 1947 when General Roger Ramey called him to his office to look at the debris flown in from Roswell. He identified it on the spot as the remains of a balloon and a RAWIN radar target, an identification the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported the next day.
In a sworn statement for the Air Force's 1994 investigation he repeated that account, adding that Maj. Jesse Marcel, introduced as the man who found the material, tried to convince him that markings on the sticks were alien writing. He said he had been interviewed and misquoted by many authors over the years, but that the facts remained as he stated them.
Sources: Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 July 1947 · The Roswell Report (U.S. Air Force, 1995), attachment 30
Facts and claims
- documented The Fort Worth Star-Telegram of 9 July 1947 reported that “The weather officer on duty at the time, Warrant Officer Newton, merely made identification positive.” Source: newspapers.com (archived)
- claimed In his sworn statement for the Air Force, Newton recalls walking into General Ramey's office “where this supposed flying saucer was lying all over the floor. As soon as I saw it, I giggled and asked if that was the flying saucer”; he told them it “was a balloon and a RAWIN target”, while “Major Marcel was picking up pieces of the target sticks and trying to convince me that some notations on the sticks were alien writings”, figures “lavender or pink in color” that looked like “weather faded markings”. — Irving Newton Source: The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (U.S. Air Force, 1995)
Connected files
Claims
- A craft of non-human origin crashed near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, and the military recovered it (disputes claim)
Incidents
- Roswell crash (witness) — The Fort Worth weather officer called to General Ramey's office to examine the debris on 8 July 1947
Documents
- The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (U.S. Air Force, 1995) (quoted in) — His sworn statement is attachment 30 of the report
Videos
- Maj. Jesse Marcel interviewed by Lee Speigel on the Roswell debris (audio, about 1980) (discussed in)