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ABC News radio broadcast on Roswell disc – July 8, 1947. The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory which alleges that the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico was actually caused by an extraterrestrial spacecraft. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project ...
At Fort Worth Army Air Field, Major Jesse A. Marcel posing with debris on July 8, 1947. On July 8, 1947, RAAF public information officer Walter Haut issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Operations Group had recovered a "flying disc", which had landed on a ranch near Roswell.
Major Jesse A. Marcel (looking right) of Houma, Louisiana, holding foil debris from Roswell, New Mexico UFO crash site, July 1947. ... Johnson happened to be in the newsroom late on July 8, 1947 ...
Air Medal (2) Jesse Antoine Marcel Sr. (May 27, 1907 – June 23, 1986) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force who helped administer Operation Crossroads, the 1946 atom bomb tests at the Bikini Atoll. [ 2]: 39 [ 3]: i. Marcel was the first military officer tasked with investigating the 1947 Roswell incident, where supposed ...
In late June and early July 1947, the country was awash in UFO sightings. The Borderland was no exception. 'The Roswell Incident:' UFOs and conspiracy theories still flying high 75 years later
The Roswell incident took place amid the flying disc craze of 1947, sparked by widespread media coverage of pilot Kenneth Arnold's alleged sighting. Amid hundreds of reports nationwide, [1] on July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field's press release was broadcast via wire transmission. [2]
The most famous UFO event during this period was the Roswell UFO incident, the alleged military recovery of a crashed flying disk, the story of which broke on July 8, 1947. To calm rising public concern, this and other cases were debunked by the military in succeeding days as mistaken sightings of weather balloons . [ 29 ]
A Roswell Daily Record on July 8, 1947, reporting a UFO case United States In the Kecksburg UFO incident , Pennsylvania (1965), residents reported seeing an object crash in the area.