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About the Roswell Photo Collection. The UTA Libraries Special Collections Division has partnered with researchers Kevin Randle, David Rudiak, Simon Schollum, and Jerry Morelock to document and disseminate photographic assets held by the Libraries related to the Roswell UFO incident of 1947.
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Dr. Kevin Douglas Randle is a prominent ufologist. Within...
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The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory which alleges that the 1947 United States Army Air Forces balloon recovered near Roswell, New Mexico was actually a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft.
- Here Are The Agreed-Upon Facts About The Roswell crash.
- The Government Changed Its Story About The Roswell ‘Saucer’—A Few times.
- Was Roswell’s ‘UFO’ from The USSR?
Sometime between mid-June and early July 1947, rancher W.W. “Mac” Brazel found the wreckage on his sizable property in Lincoln County, New Mexico, approximately 75 miles north of Roswell. Several “flying disc” and “flying saucer” stories had already appeared in the national press that summer, leading Brazel to believe the wreckage—which included ru...
The following day, the Roswell Daily Record ran a storyabout the crash and the RAAF’s astonishing claim. But U.S. Army officials quickly reversed themselves on the “flying saucer” claim, stating that the found debris was actually from a weather balloon, releasing photographs of Major Marcel posing with pieces of the supposed weather balloon debris ...
Another questionable theory—advanced by the book Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base—states that the crashed flying vehicle was neither extraterrestrial nor the work of U.S. spies. Rather, it was an unconventional plan to induce widespread American panic, implemented by Soviet strongman Joseph Stalin. An unnamed sou...
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Jul 5, 2017 · On July 8, 1947, a headline in the local paper in Roswell, New Mexico ignited 70 years of "flying saucer" sightings. NASM. In Roswell, New Mexico, exactly seven decades ago this month, the first...
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July 2022 marks the 75th anniversary of the Roswell incident, where believers say an extraterrestrial spacecraft crashed in the New Mexico desert, with debris – and possibly alien bodies – being recovered by the US government, marking the beginning of a decades-long cover-up.
Oct 6, 2024 · Here's everything to know about the Roswell incident as told in Netflix's 'Unsolved Mysteries.' In 1947, the United States Air Force claimed that a "flying disk" had been recovered in New Mexico...
Jul 7, 2014 · The accident resulted in serious swelling of Fulgham’s head and discoloration of his face. Some people believe that the stories of the 1947 Roswell Incident and the injured men from the 1959 accident got confused and the two stories turned into the one that we hear today.