On the night of July 2 to 3, 1947, on the eve of the most significant holiday in the United States - Independence Day - in the small provincial town of Roselle in New Mexico, farmer Mark Brazel noticed flashes in the sky and thunderclaps. It would seem that there is nothing surprising, because before that, a thunderstorm had passed in Roswell. In the morning, the farmer went to the field to find his escaped sheep. Instead, Braisel found metal debris.
The metal was light, bent in the hands and instantly took its original shape. The military and journalists immediately arrived at the scene. A large disc-shaped object was discovered nearby. Strange inscriptions were found on the site in some places. Near the crash site, according to eyewitnesses, bodies resembling human bodies were found.
The next day, US Air Force press officer Walter Hout gave a statement about the UFO invasion in Roswell. The event became a sensation, every newspaper wrote about it. However, the military came out with a refutation of Hout's statement. According to the official version, it was a weather balloon. The incident was hushed up. Roswell was forgotten for the next thirty years.
New wave of interest in Roswell in the 1970s
In the late 1970s, new information appeared about the crash of an alien saucer in 1947. Jesse Marcel made a public statement about the military cover-up of the Roswell incident. According to him, the official version is a lie, and the pictures of the aircraft are falsified. Marcel describes the debris as objects of incredibly lightweight material that bend back to their original shape. They resemble foil and have strange symbols on their surface. Similarly, the object was described by Breisel in 1947. Marcel, as a military man, claims that the apparatus had nothing to do with the probes.
After Marcel's statement, new eyewitness statements followed. Roswell was talked about again. The small provincial town began to attract ufologists and UFO enthusiasts.
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Roswell incident at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries
In 1995, director Ray Santilli released the film "Alien Autopsy - Fact or Fiction?" and the shots themselves are staged. However, the film made a big splash in the media.
Dies in 2005, Walter Hout, who made a sensational statement in 1947. In his will, Hout writes about the events of July 3, 1947. Hout managed to go inside a flying saucer and even see the bodies of aliens.
At the end of the 20th century, versions began to appear about the involvement of the Soviet project "Mogul" in the Roswell incident. 1947 - the height of the Cold War. The Mogul project is a Soviet nuclear weapons test project. According to the military services, the product of the "Mogul" was an object resembling a meteorological balloon, and the symbols taken by eyewitnesses for the letters of aliens could be traces of electrical tape used in the Soviet Union. It was made in a toy factory, which is why sometimes children's drawings were printed on it.
Roswell today
The Roswell UFO Museum was opened in 1992, on the site of which was previously the UFO Research Center. Since 2005, Walter Hout's daughter has headed the UFO Museum.
To this day, the Roswell incident causes heated debate, and Roswell itself has become a tourist destination visited by all ufologists and UFO lovers.