On June 24, 1997, the US Air Force released a 231-page report about information about an alien spaceship landing in Roswell, New Mexico.
On June 24, 1997, the US Air Force released a 231-page report, refuting the long-spread rumor about an alien spaceship crashing into Roswell, New Mexico 50 years ago.
Public interest in unidentified flying objects (UFOs) began to increase sharply in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the atomic age focused many Americans on pay attention to the sky.
The town of Roswell, located near the Pecos River in New Mexico, became a magnet for people who believed in flying saucers due to the strange events that occurred in July 1947. At that time, a farmer named W.W Brazel discovered a strange, bright material scattered on his land.
Brazel gave the material to police, who then turned it over to authorities at a nearby air base. On August 7, the US Air Force announced that it had found fragments of a “flying saucer”. A local newspaper immediately ran the story on the front page, making Roswell the focus of public attention about the unidentified flying object.
The US Air Force later retracted the information and said that the debris was just a shadow that was not lost.
Aside from the saucer survivors, public interest in the so-called “Roswell incident” has faded. However, in the 1970s, many claims were made about the military inventing the spy story to cover up the incident.
Those who believe that flying saucers jumped into Roswell believe that, in fact, the US non-military organization has found that this could be many extraterrestrials in the crashed spaceship. The extraterrestrial spacecraft is said to be kept at Area 51 – a mysterious flooded area in Nevada.
Replacing old doubts, the Air Force released a 1,000-page report in 1994, clearly stating that the object that fell to the ground was actually a dark shadow with no elevation, released from a nearby missile launch site. . The balloon release was not part of the experimental testing of monitoring air activities to detect Soviet test missions.
On April 27, 1997, about a week before the 50th anniversary of Roswell, the US Air Force released another report on this controversial topic.
Titled “The Roswell Report, a Do-Over,” the document asserts that the Pentagon has no evidence of any life forms found in the Roswell region related to the disk compartment. And that, “these things may” be found not to be extraterrestrials but simply dolls used for testing.
The report did not dispel the rumors as phonologists were quick to point out discrepancies in the report. Because conspiracy theories persist and spread on the internet, Roswell continues to be a destination that attracts tourists interested in flying saucers.