Homer Rowlette Sr
Sergeant Homer G. Rowlette Sr. was a United States Army Air Forces sergeant with the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron at Roswell Army Air Field who was allegedly assigned to guard duty at hangar P-3 during the Roswell incident when the Roswell craft and Roswell vehicle occupants were reportedly brought to the base for examination in July 1947. According to Donald Schmitt's investigation, Rowlette was among several military personnel from different squadrons who were ordered to report to the B-29 hangar for security duty during the Roswell craft retrieval operation.
Rowlette's assignment to hangar P-3 guard duty placed him among the military personnel allegedly exposed to evidence of non-human intelligent beings technology and biological material during the classification and analysis phase of the Roswell incident. His involvement with the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron, which specialized in aircraft maintenance and engineering support, positioned him to potentially observe technical aspects of the recovered exotic technology that required engineering analysis.
Assignment to hangar P-3
According to Schmitt's documentation, Rowlette was ordered to report to hangar P-3 for guard duty along with other military personnel including PFC Eleazer Benavidez of the 390th Air Service Squadron, PFC Leo B. Spear and Private Francis Cassidy of the 1395th MP unit, Master Sergeant Harry Telesco, and PFC James Saine, also of the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron. This multi-unit assignment pattern suggests that military authorities coordinated personnel from across the base to maintain security around the classified materials being examined in the hangar.
The B-29 hangars at Roswell Army Air Field were reportedly selected for the examination of recovered materials due to their size and security infrastructure, which could accommodate both the Roswell craft debris and the alleged non-human intelligent beings biological material requiring analysis by specialized personnel. Rowlette's engineering squadron background would have provided him with technical knowledge relevant to evaluating anomalous aircraft technology during the concealment of exotic technology operation.
603rd Air Engineering Squadron role
The 603rd Air Engineering Squadron's specialization in aircraft maintenance and technical support made its personnel valuable assets during the alleged analysis of recovered exotic technology from the Roswell crash. Rowlette's assignment to guard duty at the examination site indicates that military authorities may have selected personnel with relevant technical backgrounds to provide security while also serving as potential technical consultants during the analysis process.
Military personnel from engineering squadrons like Rowlette would have possessed the technical expertise necessary to recognize anomalous characteristics in recovered aircraft debris, making their silence about the incident essential to maintaining the Roswell cover-up protocols implemented by the 509th Bomb Group command structure.