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title: "Carroll Watts’ UFO & Martian Pilot Photographs — Loco, Texas — June 1967"
url: "https://usubjects.com/article/carroll-watts-ufo-martian-pilot-photographs-loco-texas-june-1967-4111"
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# Carroll Watts’ UFO & Martian Pilot Photographs — Loco, Texas — June 1967

Published: 2026-10-11  
Source: [r/UFOs](https://alienarchivist.substack.com/p/carroll-watts)

### Overview

A newly published account revisits a series of alleged UFO encounters reported by **Carroll Wayne Watts**, a farmer who lived near Loco, Texas, in 1967. Watts, born in 1938, was 28 at the time and lived with his wife, Rosemary, and their three children while working in his family’s farming business. The account, published by Alien Archivist on October 11, 2026, focuses particularly on photographs Watts reportedly took during several June sightings, as well as his earlier claims of contact with humanoid beings he identified as originating from Mars.

The material describes Watts as reporting his first encounter on **March 21, 1967**, when he allegedly saw a metallic, cylindrical object near Loco. Ten days later, on March 31, he said a larger cylindrical craft appeared on his family’s property. According to his account, a mechanical voice invited him aboard for a physical examination, an offer he declined. Watts later produced a sketch of the object for a U.S. Air Force UFO questionnaire completed on November 22, 1967.

### Reported Encounters

Watts’s most detailed account concerned an incident on **April 11**, when he said his truck engine stopped as an approximately **30-foot-long, egg-shaped craft** appeared nearby. He reportedly saw two humanoid figures standing at the craft’s entrance. The beings were described as roughly four feet tall, with broad shoulders, thick chests, hairless heads, pale or gray skin, slit-like noses and ears, narrow mouths and unusually wide-set eyes.

According to the published account, the figures wore **white coveralls** and communicated through what Watts called “thought-waves.” He said he boarded the craft and underwent a physical examination inside a larger cylindrical object. The beings allegedly told him they were **“from the planet you call Mars.”** These claims form the background to later references to a supposed “Martian pilot,” although the available source material does not independently establish that the beings were extraterrestrial or connected to Mars.

### The June Photographs

By June, Watts had reportedly begun carrying a Polaroid camera. He said he photographed the cylindrical object during separate sightings on **June 7, June 11 and June 13**, taking approximately ten images in total. The account states that only **two distinct UFO photographs are presently known to survive in reproduction**. One is identified as the only known surviving color reproduction of a Watts image and is said to have been preserved among slides associated with astronomer and UFO investigator **J. Allen Hynek**. A black-and-white reproduction of what appears to be the same image is also presented.

The images are important to the historical record of the case because they provide a visual component to Watts’s reports, but their existence does not by itself confirm the interpretation placed on them. The source material supplied for this report does not include original negatives, chain-of-custody documentation, technical photographic analysis, contemporaneous laboratory testing or independent eyewitness confirmation. It also does not provide sufficient information to determine precisely when or where each surviving reproduction was made.

### Assessment and Context

Watts’s reports emerged during a period of intense public interest in UFOs, when civilian investigators, military inquiries and media organizations were collecting accounts of unusual aerial phenomena. His completed Air Force questionnaire and the reported preservation of an image in Hynek’s slide collection suggest that the case entered established UFO-investigation networks. However, those associations demonstrate that the material was circulated or archived—not that the photographs or encounters were authenticated.

The available account offers no verified explanation for the objects shown, and it does not establish whether the photographs depict an aircraft, a model, an optical effect or an unidentified phenomenon. **The photographs remain historical artifacts associated with Watts’s testimony, rather than conclusive evidence of extraterrestrial visitation.** Further evaluation would require access to original photographic materials, contemporaneous records and independent technical analysis.

## Provenance

This USUBJECTS page is a summary or digest of the linked original source. Any accompanying generated visual is an illustrative reconstruction, not evidence.