CaseDisk1947
Roswell, NM, USA
In early July 1947, the U.S. Army Air Forces announced it had recovered a 'flying disc' from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico — then retracted the claim within hours.
- When
- July 1947
- Where
- Roswell, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.394, -104.523 · exact
- Slug
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The Summer of the Saucers
United States
Kenneth Arnold’s June sighting and the Roswell announcement fused into the founding six weeks of the modern UFO era.
Notes
The founding myth of UFO crash-retrieval lore: an official admission, a rapid retraction, and three decades of silence that let memory and legend fuse.
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