Roswell Incident

The Roswell incident is the 1947 New Mexico crash that launched the modern UFO myth: a rancher's debris field, an Army press release announcing a captured flying disc, and a retraction the next day claiming a weather balloon. Decades later the Air Force identified the debris as Project Mogul, a classified balloon array for detecting Soviet tests — an explanation that arrived too late to outrun the legend. Family testimony, deathbed statements and folklore have layered ever since, and readers here still argue the case like it happened Tuesday.

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