The Roswell Incident
- Event date
- 1947 Jul 8
- Location
- about 30 mi. north of Roswell, New Mexico
- Country
- United States
Record summary
Walter Haut, a United States Army Air Forces spokesperson, issued a press release announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer". Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon. In 1978, the case regained attention after Jesse Marcel, the Army Officer who recovered the wreckage, told UFO researchers that the weather balloon...