Roswell
A Two-Day Story. A Thirty-Year Silence. An Eighty-Year Mystery.
On July 8, 1947, the public information office at Roswell Army Air Field – home to the world's only nuclear-armed bomber unit – announced it had recovered a "flying disc." By the next morning, the story was dead. It stayed dead for thirty years. Then it became the most famous UFO case on Earth.
This series traces the full arc: what the original 1947 documents actually say, how a forgotten two-day story was rebuilt into a global phenomenon, and what two federal investigations revealed – and couldn't explain – when the government finally reopened the file.
The Day the Army Said It Caught a Flying Saucer – Then Took It Back
What the original 1947 newspapers, military records, FBI teletype, and Fort Worth photographs actually say about the two days that started it all – before thirty years of silence and fifty years of mythology reshaped the story.
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The 30-Year Silence and the Explosive Revival That Made Roswell Famous
A nuclear physicist, a retired intelligence officer, five bestselling books, fabricated witnesses, a hoax autopsy film, and the tourist economy that turned a New Mexico town into the UFO capital of the world.
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Project Mogul, Destroyed Records, and the Questions Nobody Has Answered
A congressman's demand forced the GAO and Air Force to reopen the case. They found a classified balloon program, destroyed records with no accountability trail, and an unreadable memo in a general's hand. The debris has an explanation. The announcement that started it all does not.
Read Part 3 →"The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer."
— Roswell Daily Record, July 8, 1947
The Primary Sources
The key federal documents referenced in this series are publicly available.