Monday, July 2, 2007

60 years ago today=Roswell, NM


During a trip across the good ole USA, I dropped in on Roswell, NM and I would recommend it to anyone. It was 60 years ago today that the mystery started. The Roswell UFO Incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, in July 1947, which have since become the subject of intense speculation, rumor, questioning and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened, and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has evolved into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFO and likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.

There's a museum in Roswell that is dedicated to the UFO incident, which I found to be very informative. I am not sure what happened in July 1947 in Roswell except that whatever happened, the government tried to cover it up.

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