The Plains of San Agustin Crash

The Plains of San Agustin lie in New Mexico. The claim attached to them is that in July 1947 a disc came down there, roughly a hundred miles from Roswell by one telling, and lay embedded in a ridge with a hole torn in its side. Four small beings are described beside it, two of them dead, one dying and one alive. Civilians are said to have reached the wreck first: a family, a party of archaeologists, campers. A military recovery force then arrived, sealed the site, and turned the witnesses away under threat.

What is on the record

The archive resolves fifteen claimants across four videos and two reporting channels. The best known are Gerald Anderson, described in the tellings as a boy at the time, and the engineer who appears in the file as Barney Barnett and elsewhere as Grady Barnett. The tellings agree on the broad shape of the event and diverge on nearly everything else. One has the Anderson family finding the craft. One has Barnett finding it independently. One places an anonymous five-year-old witness at the ridge with an archaeological group. Two versions name a red-haired officer who threatened the witnesses, given once as Captain Armstrong and once as a colonel.

The file holds no documents at all, primary or secondary. That matters more here than in most entries, because the claim is of a military operation involving trucks through Magdalena at night and personnel from Sandia, and an operation of that size would ordinarily leave paperwork. None is in the archive. Some accounts are marked in the file as secondhand, and at least one telling notes that hypnotic regression featured in how the material was gathered.

The archive records the site as about fifty-seven kilometres from a nuclear weapons location.

Why it sits where it does

The case grades L3 on the strength of multiple claimants describing one connected event, drawn from two channels. There is no government record and no authenticated material to lift it further, and the tier is a measure of how the story is carried rather than a judgement on it. What lies behind the San Agustin accounts is not resolved here.