On Saturday night, July 5, Brazel drove into Corona, where he heard stories of silvery flying discs. The ranch had no phone and no radio, leaving Brazel unaware of the on-going flying saucer craze. Brazel gathered it and pushed it under some brush to dispose of it. "Mac" Brazel found debris – tinfoil, rubber, and thin wooden beams – scattered across a square mile near Corona, New Mexico. The city of Roswell, New Mexico has capitalized on the event the city's official seal now features a little green man while the city contains countless ufology attractions, events, statues and iconography. The incident has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim". Ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.Ĭonspiracy theories about the event persist, and the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media.
The Roswell incident was not widely discussed until the late 1970s, when retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel, in an interview with ufologist Stanton Friedman, said he believed the debris he retrieved was extraterrestrial. The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon. On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". In 1994, the United States Air Force published a report identifying the crashed object as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Decades later, conspiracy theories claimed that the debris was from a flying saucer which had been covered up by the United States government. The Roswell incident centers on the recovery, in 1947, of metallic and rubber debris from a military balloon that crashed near Roswell, New Mexico.
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