On July 6, 1947, foreman William Brazel was patrolling the Foster cattle ranch, 50 kilometres outside the town of Roswell, New Mexico, when he noticed some strange debris strewn across the ground. The debris was composed of a strange, silvery metallic substance, parts of which were covered in strings of mysterious symbols resembling Egyptian hieroglyphs. The following day, Brazel contacted the nearby Roswell Army Air Field, who immediately dispatched a team to inspect and recover the debris. On July 8, Walter Haut, the airfield’s public information officer, issued a press release announcing that the Army Air Force had recovered a “flying disc” from a nearby ranch. This statement was quickly retracted and replaced with another explaining that the debris was merely the remains of a weather balloon. But it was too late. The first announcement was quickly picked up by multiple news outlets and spread like wildfire around the country, touching off a cultural obsession with flying saucers, alien visitations, and government coverups that persists to this day. But while UFO skeptics are quick to point out that the Roswell “flying saucer” was merely a weather balloon, the truth of the matter is actually far more interesting. For the debris…
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The Secret Cold War Project Behind the Roswell UFO Incident
