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UFOs: Roswell

Information about New Mexico and stories of UFOs

Roswell Reports

 

What crashed in the desert outside of Roswell, New Mexico in 1947? X-Files fans wanted to know! These volumes are seeped in Cold War intrigue, science experiments, and conspiracy!

The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995)

The Roswell report : case closed (1997)

 

Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident"

 

General Accounting Office Report to the Honorable Steven H. Schiff, House of Representatives - Government Records - Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico

Highsmith, Carol M, photographer. An otherworldly resident in Roswell, a small city in the southeast corner of New Mexico that lacked much of a national identity until one day inwhen, believers say, an unidentified flying object, or UFO, landed in the nearby desert. United States Roswell New Mexico Chaves County, 2018. -03-10. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2020742863/.

Newspapers

Clovis News Journal Newspaper Archives July 9, 1947 Page 1

 

 

First captive flying disk turns out to be wind observation balloon

Gallup Independent Newspaper Archives July 9, 1947 Page 1

 

Harrassed rancher who located "saucer" story he told about it

Roswell Daily Record, July 9th, 1947

 

Famous image of Major Jesse Marcel with debris from the Roswell crash

 

This famous image of  Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence office with the 509th Bomb group at Roswell is often cited as coming from the AP Wirephoto. It was taken by reporter J. Bond Johnson of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The story appeared July 9, 1947. It was included in The Roswell Report; Fact vs Fiction in the New Mexico Desert

These images are now held by the UTA Libraries Special Collections Division, Roswell Collection. 

"Image Courtesy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photograph Collection, Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library, Arlington, Texas."

 

 

 

 

 

Mystery unraveled disk identified as weather balloon

Denton Record Chronicle, July 9, 1947 Page 1

 

Disk craze continues army disk-ounts New Mexico find as weather gear

Many local Residents report mass "flight" of disks over corsicana wednesday morning

Corsicana Daily Sun Newspaper Archives July 9, 1947 Page 1