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What was Mysterious Roswell UFO Incident of 1947 ? United States

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What happened in Roswell UFO Incident ?

According to ranch worker William Brazel, wreckage from a highly classified project utilised by the US Army Air Force (the forerunner of the US Air Force) to detect atomic bomb explosions in the Soviet Union was discovered on a ranch on July 7, 1947, some 75 miles north of the town of Roswell in New Mexico.

Brazel collected some of the debris and travelled to Roswell to inform Sheriff George Wilcox about his discovery because he was intrigued by the notion of flying saucers. He "whispered kinda confidential like," according to reports. Wilcox reported the encounter to the USAAF base at Roswell right away, and once it was covered by the media, agents were dispatched to the ranch.

According to a press announcement from Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) on July 8, 1947, a "flying disc" had crashed on a property close to Roswell during a severe storm. The narrative seemed to shift later in the day as government scientists flocked to the region. Instead, it was revealed at a news conference that a weather balloon had crashed. Reporters were shown pieces of wood, rubber, and foil purportedly recovered from the crash site, which seemed to prove that the device had been a weather balloon.

The Roswell Daily Record published a correction after first implying that Brazels debris had come from a UFO, including the USAAFs clarification that a weather balloon had actually been discovered at the scene. Later, Brazel expressed regret for the notoriety his mistaken identity had generated.
The debris Brazel discovered was from a balloon that was a part of an experimental technology trial known as Project Mogul, according to the official sources.

The United States Air Force identified the crashed item as a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul in a study they issued in 1994. A second Air Force assessment, released in 1997, came to the conclusion that reports of "alien remains" were most likely the result of test dummies being dropped from great heights.

Despite this, conspiracy theories regarding the encounter are still prevalent, and media attention to the Roswell incident is still high. The encounter has been referred as as "the most famous, well studied, and thoroughly refuted UFO report in history."