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The original was posted on /r/ufos by /u/Runner_one on 2024-10-12 18:08:13+00:00.

In know this is nothing earth shattering or even if anyone will believe me.

I served in the Air Force in the early 80s as a Vehicle Operator / Dispatcher my AFSC was 603x0 and I was stationed at Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth, TX. In our squadron we had a civilian driver that worked part time as a relief driver, he was retired military and was probably in his upper 60s at the time, maybe early 70s. We simply referred to him as Mr. Jim.

He began his shift at 4:30 am. Some days were busier than others and on less busy days Mr. Jim would sit and read the newspaper.

One morning with a light workload, the rest of us were all sitting around talking, when the discussion turned to UFOs. I don’t remember what the exact discussion was or what started it but Mr. Jim put down his newspaper and said, “Did I ever tell you guys the story about the time they brought a flying saucer through here?”

Of course that got our attention, and I will relate what I can remember he said to the best of my recall.

According to Mr. Jim, sometime after World War II, he was on duty at Carswell when the base was locked down for a period of time. No one knew why at the time, but according to Mr. Jim, later scuttlebutt on the base was that a flying saucer had crashed out west somewhere and they were taking it back east. Apparently they had landed at Carswell to move the wreckage to another aircraft. That was all he knew. This discussion took place sometime about 1985 as I left the Air Force in 1986,

It wasn’t until 1992 that Stanton Friedman published his book, “Crash at Corona”, that brought Roswell into the public eye. The most interesting part of the whole thing and the reason I have long remembered that discussion with Mr. Jim is the fact that it later became part of UFO lore that whatever crashed at Roswell was taken by aircraft to what was at the time Carswell Army Air field before being taken on to Wright Patterson Ohio.

Mr. Jim told us that story long before Roswell popular in the public eye, and his story lined up perfectly with what later became public knowledge. Maybe there is another explanation for Mr. Jim’s story, maybe it means something, maybe it means nothing, maybe you don’t believe me, that’s ok, I just wanted to tell someone my little interesting tidbit of history.

Edit:Typo

Edit2 follow-up: I had forgotten about Charles Berlitz’s book in 1980. But I still believe Mr. Jim was relating events as he remembered them.