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UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth
Two anthropologists and the meteorologist who worked on the actual Project Mogul balloon flights analyze the Roswell story's growth from a 1947 press retraction into a full mythology, applying anthropological theory to explain how and why witness testimony expanded so dramatically across decades of retelling.
- Author
- Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler & Charles B. Moore
- Published
- 1997
- Library rank
- #92
Why it matters
The most rigorous anthropological case study of how a modern crash-retrieval myth actually forms and grows.