Roswell Incident

On July 4–8, 1947, a rancher in New Mexico discovered debris on his property that the U.S. Army Air Forces initially reported as a recovered flying disc, then quickly retracted as a weather balloon. Decades of government secrecy and contradictory official explanations fueled speculation that the debris was an extraterrestrial spacecraft and that the government had covered up evidence of alien visitation.

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