Newspapers report the crash
Debris from the crash
July 7th 1947: Roswell incident
On this day in 1947, a local rancher alerted authorities that an object had crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The next day, the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release announcing that a “flying disk” had crashed nearby; it was later asserted that it was a weather balloon. While the case appeared largely unremarkable, and indeed went unreported for many years, interest in the incident was revived in the 1970s. This was due to the investigation of UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, who interviewed contemporary witnesses who hinted that the wreckage was alien and that this fact was covered up by the military; his findings were published in the 1980 book The Roswell Incident. The fascination with the case grew from there, with several witnesses coming forward to corroborate the UFO story, thus spawning a popular conspiracy theory. In the 1990s, there was even footage released of a supposed ‘alien autopsy’ of bodies from the wreck at Roswell, though this has since been denounced as a hoax. Also in the 1990s, however, the Pentagon revealed that the object which crashed at Roswell was a string of weather balloons equipped with surveillance apparatus designed to spy on the Soviet Union. Despite this, the Roswell incident remains synonymous with stories of UFOs, and many still insist that Roswell experienced an alien encounter.
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