The Roswell Incident of 1947 is the most famous event in the history of ufology, occurring in early July near Roswell, New Mexico, USA. The military initially claimed to have discovered a "flying disc" but later denied this, calling the debris a weather balloon. Since the late 1970s, the incident has fueled conspiracy theories about the crash of an alien spacecraft. In early July 1947, a farmer discovered strange debris on his ranch. On July 8, 1947, Roswell Air Force Base (509th Bomb Wing) repo

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