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Roswell International Air Centre an airport most famous for the Roswell incident is the 1947. It lies 5 miles south of the city of Roswell, in Chaves County, New Mexico, USA.
The airport was named Roswell Army Airfield during World War II, and Walker Air Force Base during the Cold War. The site was used for several years to launch stratospheric balloons for Air Force projects.
In 1966 the Air Force announced that Walker AFB would close. This was during a round of base closings and consolidations as the defence Department struggled to pay the expenses of the Vietnam War within the budgetary limits set by Congress. When it closed it was the largest base of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Following this Roswell the current Industrial Air Centre was developed and opened in 1967. The airfield also serves as a storage facility for many retired aircraft.
The Roswell incident is the 1947 recovery of balloon debris from a ranch near Corona, New Mexico 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.
Information sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_International_Air_Center
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Roswell International Air Centre an airport most famous for the Roswell incident is the 1947. It lies 5 miles south of the city of Roswell, in Chaves County, New Mexico, USA.
The airport was named Roswell Army Airfield during World War II, and Walker Air Force Base during the Cold War. The site was used for several years to launch stratospheric balloons for Air Force projects.
In 1966 the Air Force announced that Walker AFB would close. This was during a round of base closings and consolidations as the defence Department struggled to pay the expenses of the Vietnam War within the budgetary limits set by Congress. When it closed it was the largest base of the United States Air Force Strategic Air Command. Following this Roswell the current Industrial Air Centre was developed and opened in 1967. The airfield also serves as a storage facility for many retired aircraft.
The Roswell incident is the 1947 recovery of balloon debris from a ranch near Corona, New Mexico 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.
Information sources:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_International_Air_Center