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The city of Roswell, in Chaves County, New Mexico, USA.
It is most famous for the Roswell incident, though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some 75 miles from Roswell and closer to Corona. In 1947 the recovery was made of balloon debris by United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army Air Field, and the conspiracy theories, decades later, claiming that the debris involved a flying saucer and that the truth had been covered up by the United States government. On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
The Roswell incident did not surface again until the late 1970s, when retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel, in an interview with ufologist Stanton Friedman, said he believed the debris he retrieved was extra-terrestrial. Ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extra-terrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.
In 1994, the United States Air Force published a report identifying the crashed object as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. A second Air Force report, published in 1997, concluded that stories of "aliens bodies" probably stemmed from test dummies being dropped from high altitude.
Roswell's tourism industry is based on aerospace engineering and ufology museums and businesses, as well as alien-themed and spacecraft-themed iconography. The city also relies on New Mexico and Americana related tourism. New Mexican cuisine restaurants, such as Martin's Capitol Café, are located near downtown on Main Street, near the International UFO Museum and Research Centre.
Information Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell,_New_Mexico
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_International_Air_Center
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The city of Roswell, in Chaves County, New Mexico, USA.
It is most famous for the Roswell incident, though the crash site of the alleged UFO was some 75 miles from Roswell and closer to Corona. In 1947 the recovery was made of balloon debris by United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army Air Field, and the conspiracy theories, decades later, claiming that the debris involved a flying saucer and that the truth had been covered up by the United States government. On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a "flying disc". The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
The Roswell incident did not surface again until the late 1970s, when retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel, in an interview with ufologist Stanton Friedman, said he believed the debris he retrieved was extra-terrestrial. Ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extra-terrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.
In 1994, the United States Air Force published a report identifying the crashed object as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. A second Air Force report, published in 1997, concluded that stories of "aliens bodies" probably stemmed from test dummies being dropped from high altitude.
Roswell's tourism industry is based on aerospace engineering and ufology museums and businesses, as well as alien-themed and spacecraft-themed iconography. The city also relies on New Mexico and Americana related tourism. New Mexican cuisine restaurants, such as Martin's Capitol Café, are located near downtown on Main Street, near the International UFO Museum and Research Centre.
Information Sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell,_New_Mexico
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_International_Air_Center