Chuck Wade's seven New Mexico crashes
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Contents 5
| Date | 26 March 2011 |
|---|---|
| Topics | Crashes & retrievals (topic), Secrecy & cover-up (topic) |
| People | Jacques Vallée, Frank Scully |
| Testimony | Shellenberger testimony, p. 174 |
| Year | 2011 in UFO history |
| Timeline | 2011 on the UAP Timeline |
| Sources | 2 |
Chuck Wade's seven New Mexico crashes — A researcher presents claims from military sources about UAP crash recoveries.
Chuck Wade is a New Mexico researcher who has spoken at the annual Aztec UFO Symposium about what he says were at least seven UFO crashes and recoveries in New Mexico between 1945 and 1948. They include an "avocado-shaped" craft at San Antonio, New Mexico, in August 1945, a craft on the Plains of San Agustin in early July 1947 and two craft near Roswell on 4 July 1947.
Wade cites unnamed military sources and has shown metal fragments he believes came from the 1947 crash near the Plains of San Agustin. He has also connected the 1945 San Antonio story to two men who said they witnessed it as boys, an account promoted by writer Paola Harris and researcher Jacques Vallée.
None of these claims has been confirmed, and the San Antonio story has been criticized for inconsistencies. The Aztec, New Mexico, crash of 1948, after which the symposium is named, is widely considered a hoax, traced to the con men behind Frank Scully's 1950 book.
In the testimony
The testimony cites: Avocado-shaped craft at San Antonio, NM, August 1945; 32’ craft on the Plains of San Augustin, NM, 1-2 July 1947; 25’ oval craft SW of Roswell, 4 July 1947; 12’ to 15’ craft NW of Roswell, 4 July 1947.
People and topics
- Unidentified anomalous phenomena — The U.S. government's current term for unidentified objects in the air, in space and underwater.
- Crash retrieval — The alleged recovery of crashed non-human craft by governments.
- Unidentified flying object — An object in the sky that can't be identified; the older term for UAP.
- Plains of San Agustin — A New Mexico plain named in some Roswell crash accounts.
- Roswell — The New Mexico town at the center of the 1947 crash story.
- Jacques Vallée — Computer scientist and astronomer, author of the Forbidden Science journals and a central figure in UFO research.
- Frank Scully — Variety columnist whose 1950 book Behind the Flying Saucers told of crashed saucers and dead aliens.
On the Timeline
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- Homeland Security and BAASS (2011) (June-July 2011) — Homeland Security officials explore setting up BAASS as a UAP program in the government.
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References
- Roswell witness file: Chuck Wade — Patrick Gross · ufologie.patrickgross.org · archived copy
- zbook.org · zbook.org · archived copy
Further reading
- Aztec, New Mexico (1948 UFO hoax) — Wikipedia · en.wikipedia.org · archived copy
This page was last edited on 29 October 2026. Articles are written in our own words from the sources listed under References; disputed claims are attributed to the people who made them.
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