It is thought that the Roswell incident is easily the most popular UFO legend in the country.
However, there are murky details and multiple contradicting accounts, the idea that an Extraterrestrial UFO crash landed there won't die.
In fact, the town of Roswell has embraced the idea of Extraterrestrial life and its reputation, down to the alien-shaped street lamps.
But here's a quick rundown of what exactly happened.
Sometime in late June or early July of 1947, a ranch hand named Mac Brazel found a pile of wreckage made up of "rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks".
Brazel, after hearing rumors around town about flying saucers, reported his findings to the town sheriff, who called the Roswell Army Air Force Base.
Soldiers came and whisked away the wreckage, and in the confusion, someone told a reporter for the local paper that the materials were from a downed flying saucer.
The story blew up, but the next day, an Air Force official claimed that the flying saucer story was false, and that the wreck was actually a weather balloon.
Various accounts claim all kinds of things: Some say they saw alien bodies being transported from the site, others who inspected the material say that it was definitely nothing known to man at the time, and those with inside knowledge of the situation claim that the scraps and bodies were sent to Area 51 and other Air Force bases for inspection.
In the 1990's, the military declassified documents claiming that the wreck was actually from a top-secret atomic espionage balloon called Project Mogul from Alamogordo AFB in New Mexico.
It was a high-altitude balloon the military hoped to use to spy on Soviet nuclear tests.
It was allegedly so top-secret that no one at Roswell at the time even knew about it, so they didn't exactly know what to do when they were called to the crash site.
It all sounds a little... convenient, but it's also plausible.
Also, for reference the actual Crash Site was actually more than 75 miles from Roswell.
We may never know the truth.
However , I thought it might be fun to do a little investigation myself!
The town is full of fun little extraterrestrial signage, you know those little men of space... Extraterrestrial. 👽
The International UFO Museum...
It was a fun day investigating and yet I know very little more than I did before. 😅
Anyway, it was a good day in the neighborhood!
Nana
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