Over the decades numerous people in the UFO field have investigated the Roswell affair of July 1947. It was, however, the first hours and days of the event that are the most important. And that's the theme of today's article: focusing on the case from the moment it began and when everything was shut down
It was in the summer of 1947 that something crashed on the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico. Whatever it was, it left huge amounts of strange debris across the ranch. There was talk of strange, small bodies also having been found in the area, thrown out of the craft that exploded on impact. Within. Read more »
Now and again, I’ve heard people in the UFO field claim that after the sensational story of the recovery of a “flying disc” by the U.S. Army Air Force outside of Roswell, New Mexico surfaced in early July 1947, everything went quiet. And that there was no more talk about Roswell until the mid-1970s. The seventies were when both Stan Friedman and Bill Moore (the latter being the co-author with Charles Berlitz of 1980’s
The Roswell Incident) started to dig into the story. And, in doing so, uncovered a wealth of data that, collectively, strongly suggested what came down on the Foster Ranch in Lincoln County, New Mexico, was
When it comes to the issue of what really happened on what was once known as the Foster Ranch, Lincoln County, New Mexico in early July 1947, there are things we know, things we suspect, and things we will probably never know. But, that
something happened – something which caused the U.S. Air Force to offer multiple explanations for the event – is not a matter of any doubt at all. It was an incident that clearly concerned elements of not just the military, but the government, too, and to a highly significant degree. Eye-witnesses – both military and civilian – were warned not to talk about what they had seen and / or heard. More than a few of those warnings crossed the line and can only accurately be described as death threats. People were plunged into states of fear. Lives were changed forever; even scarred. Some lives may have ended; as in terminated. It was on July 8, 1947 that the strange event surfaced publicly. Associated Press (among many other news outlets) reported