Roster / The early years

Said in 1950 that saucers and their crews had been recovered in the Southwest.

Newton was a Colorado oil businessman. In March 1950 he gave a lecture to students at the University of Denver about recovered saucers, and he was the main source, with a man Scully called "Dr. Gee," for Frank Scully's book Behind the Flying Saucers that year.

In 1952 journalist J. P. Cahn, writing in True magazine, called the story a hoax. In 1953 Newton and Leo GeBauer, the man identified as Dr. Gee, were convicted of fraud for selling oil-prospecting devices, nicknamed doodlebugs, to investors, which were pitched as based on saucer technology. Most writers dropped the saucer account after that. Later researchers, including Scott and Suzanne Ramsey, reopened the Aztec case on other witnesses and records.

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