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Newspaper reports of Arnold's 24 June, 1947 sighting, comprise largely of articles based on their editorial version of the same newsfeeds from either the Associated Press (AP), or United Press (UP). Of paramount import is an early radio interview given to station KWRC by Kenneth Arnold, on the 26 June: First Radio Interview with Kenneth Arnold 26 June, 1947 NEWSCASTER: The nation, every newscaster, and every newspaper across the nation has made headlines out of it, and this afternoon we are honored, indeed, to have here in our studio this man, Kenneth Arnold, who, we believe, may be able to give us a first-hand account and give you the same on what happened. Kenneth, first of all if you'll move up here to the microphone just a little closer, we'll ask you to just tell in your own fashion, as you told us last night in your hotel room, and again this morning, what you were doing there and how this entire thing started. Go ahead, Kenneth. KENNETH ARNOLD: Well, about 2:15 I too

This is a statement from Major Jesse Marcel, as published in our first Roswell related book publication 'The Roswell Incident', by Charles Berlitz & William Moore: "Just after we got to Carswell, Fort Worth, we were told to bring some of this stuff up to the general's office - that he wanted to take a look at it. We did this and spread it out on the floor on some brown paper. What we had was only a very small portion of the debris - there was a whole lot more. There was half a B-29-ful outside. General Ramey allowed some members of the press in to take a picture of this stuff. They took one picture of me on the floor holding up some of the less-interesting metallic debris. The press was allowed to photograph this, but were not allowed far enough into the room to touch it. The stuff in that one photo was pieces of the actual stuff we had found. It was not a staged photo". Subsequently, we we have the publication of 'Crash at Corona', by Stanton T. Fried