The town of Roswell leverages this to promote itself as a destination for UFO-associated tourism.Ĭlass=notpageimage| Roswell was one of many Army Airfields in New Mexico when debris was recovered from a ranch near Corona. The conspiracy narrative has become a trope in science fiction literature, film, and television. Popularized by the 1980 book The Roswell Incident, this speculation became the basis for long-lasting and increasingly complex and contradictory ufology conspiracy theories, which over time expanded the incident to include governments concealing evidence of extraterrestrial beings, grey aliens, multiple crashed flying saucers, alien corpses and autopsies, and the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology, none of which have any factual basis.ĭespite the lack of evidence, many UFO proponents claim that the Roswell debris was derived from an alien craft, and accuse the US government of a cover-up. In 1978, retired Air Force officer Jesse Marcel revealed that the Army's weather balloon claim had been a cover story, but added to that his speculation that the debris was of extraterrestrial origin.

Obscuring the true purpose and source of the crashed balloon, the Army subsequently stated that it was a conventional weather balloon.

This announcement made international headlines but was retracted within a day.

After metallic and rubber debris was recovered by Roswell Army Air Field personnel, the United States Army announced their possession of a 'flying disc'.

Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the balloon's purpose was remote detection of Soviet nuclear tests. The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon, near Roswell, New Mexico.

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