Roswell Incident
Roswell, New Mexico, USA · July 1947
A rancher discovered mysterious debris on his property. The US Army initially announced recovery of a 'flying disc' before retracting the statement, claiming it was a weather balloon. Decades later, the Air Force admitted it was a Project Mogul balloon monitoring Soviet nuclear tests.
- Classification
- Crash retrieval
- Witnesses
- Mac Brazel, Jesse Marcel, numerous military personnel
- Significance
- Most famous UFO incident in history, sparked decades of conspiracy theories
