The Roswell incident refers to the discovery of debris on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, which the local army air field first described in a press release as a crashed flying disc. The army quickly corrected the statement, saying that it was a weather balloon, and the story faded for decades. It was revived in the 1980s by UFO researchers who alleged a cover-up of an extraterrestrial craft. In the 1990s the US Air Force published reports explaining that the debris came from Project Mogul, a secret programme using high-altitude balloons to detect Soviet nuclear tests, and that the reports of alien bodies came from later events and crash-test dummies. Roswell remains a symbol of UFO folklore.
Before and after
- from 28 April 1947 to 31 July 1947Operation Vistula
- 5 June 1947George Marshall proposes the European Recovery Program
- 21 June 1947Birth of Shirin Ebadi
- 25 June 1947Publication of Diary of Anne Frank
- July 1947Roswell incident
- 17 July 1947Birth of Queen Camilla
- 19 July 1947Birth of Brian May
- 30 July 1947Birth of Arnold Schwarzenegger
- 15 August 1947Partition of India
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The era
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