Roswell UFO incident
The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding a military balloon crash. It crashed in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico. There had been a flying disc craze that summer. Americans reported hundreds of flying saucers. A rancher near Roswell found the balloon debris. He reported the metallic and rubber debris to the military as a crashed flying saucer. Roswell Army Air Field recovered the debris. The Army told the local news they had found a “flying disc”. This made worldwide news, but the Army took back the statement within the day. The Air Force hid the point of the crashed balloon. It was for nuclear test detection, but General Roger Ramey said it was a weather balloon. Thirty years later, conspiracy theorists accused the government of a cover-up. Conspiracy theorists claimed the Air Force hid a spaceship. In 1994, the United States Air Force responded to the conspiracy theories. They revealed the debris had come from a top-secret surveillance balloon. Project Mogul at nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field launched the balloon in June 1947.
Roswell UFO Incident Media
At Fort Worth Army Air Field, Major Jesse A. Marcel posing with debris on July 8, 1947.
Brig. General Roger Ramey, left, and Col. Thomas J. DuBose pose with debris.
Author Frank Scully (right) and confidence man Silas Newton (center)
In 1991, Glenn Dennis and Walter Haut opened a UFO museum in Roswell.
The Air Force reports identified a military program as the source of the 1947 debris and concluded that other alien crash accounts were likely misidentified military programs or accidents.
The City of Roswell's welcome sign, featuring a flying saucer
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References
- Young readers
- Hubbard, Ben (2023). What do we know about the Roswell incident? | WorldCat.org. New York: Penguin Workshop. ISBN 9780593519271.
- Fleming, Candace (4 October 2022). Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell (Scholastic Focus). Scholastic Inc. ISBN 978-1-338-82948-8.
- Video
- Department of Defense (1997) The Roswell Reports. Vol. 1. National Archives Identifier: 2788598.
- General
- Goldberg, Robert Alan (2001). "Chapter 6: The Roswell Incident". Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0300132946.
- Frank, Adam (2023). The Little Book of Aliens (Ebook ed.). New York: Harper. ISBN 9780063279773.
- Korff, Kal (1997). The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know (First ed.). Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1573921275.
- Olmsted, Kathryn S. (2009). "Chapter 6: Trust No One: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories from the 1970s to the 1990s". Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0199753956.
- Young, James Michael (2020). "The U.S. Air Force's Long Range Detection Program and Project MOGUL". Air Power History. 67 (4).