Significance Of Roswell 63 Years Later

This week marks the 63rd anniversary of one of the most famous conspiracies, and most well-known UFO incident, of all time. After nearly a century since the incident, official answers about Roswell seem thin, and the site of a purported alien crash landing site continues to attract tourists and paranormal enthusiasts - so much so that the town of 50,000 residents hosts an annual celebration as UFO Central this time every year for 13 years now. It's pretty well accepted that "something" crashed in the New Mexico desert July 7, 1947 - only a few days, really, after pilot Kenneth Arnold said he saw a flying saucers near Mt. Ranier on June 24, which was the first widely reported sighting. Then, on July 8, the "Roswell Daily Record" reported the press release by the Army stating that a flying saucer had crashed in the area. The next day, the military changed the story to suggest that it was a crashed weather balloon, and not an alien craft. The story died down until, a little more than 30 years later, physicist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved in the original debris cleanup and claimed the crash was no balloon.Although it wasn't the beginning of the UFO fascination in the States (that probably has a lot to do with Arnold, and Edward R. Murrow's CBS program, "The Case for the Flying Saucers"). But Roswell is" the" UFO incident most people withing the mainstream know about, and it did solidify the government cover-up conspiracy theories.To learn more about the Roswell story, check out Lee Speigel's excellent two-part story on the crash and the festival at AOL News.

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