Roswell UFO incident

The Roswell incident is a series of events and myths about a military balloon crash. It happens in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico. That summer, there is a craze about flying discs, and many Americans report seeing flying saucers. A rancher near Roswell finds some metallic and rubber debris. He thinks it is a crashed flying saucer and reports it to the military. Roswell Army Air Field recovers the debris. The Army tells the local news that they found a "flying disc." This makes worldwide news, but the Army quickly changes their statement. The Air Force hides the real reason for the crash. It is a balloon used for nuclear test detection, but General Roger Ramey says it is a weather balloon. Thirty years later, conspiracy theorists say the government is hiding the truth. They claim the Air Force is covering up a spaceship.

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).
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