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2 days ago · The UFO craze came to Fort Worth one hot July in 1947. The infamous tinfoil wreckage of a “saucer” from the Roswell Incident — we now know it was a top-secret spy balloon — arrived at the local air base after a crash that still stirs up dust. First, a U.S. Army Air Force spokesman in New Mexico called it a “flying saucer.”.
1 day ago · The Roswell incident is a collection of events and myths surrounding the 1947 crash of a United States Army Air Forces balloon near Roswell, New Mexico. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of the top secret Project Mogul, the balloon was intended to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
4 days ago · Aliens? Or just balloons and crash test dummies? World UFO Day has its roots in the so-called Roswell Incident on July 2, 1947. On that date, something crashed at what was then the J.B. Foster ranch in New Mexico. There were reports that the U.S. military had recovered a “flying disc.”
3 days ago · July 2 is marked as World UFO Day ever since the Roswell Incident in 1947. Let's take a look at the history of the mysterious Roswell crash and talk to some Grand Junction and Montrose locals ...
4 days ago · FILE - A sign directs travelers to the start of the "1947 UFO Crash Site Tours" in Roswell, N.M., June 10, 1997. World UFO Day is being celebrated amid a surge in sightings and government studies ...
4 days ago · The supposed site of an extraterrestrial-spacecraft crash in 1947, Roswell now draws thousands of visitors to its annual UFO Encounter Festival, held in July. Inc. 1891. Pop. (2000) 45,293; (2010) 48,366. (Read Carl Sagan’s Britannica entry on extraterrestrial life.)
2 days ago · The occupants of the vehicle had been headed to a festival in Roswell, New Mexico. Roswell is well known as the site of an alleged 1947 UFO crash and now draws thousands of visitors to its annual ...
