Roswell's Famous Front Page of 71 Years Ago Today

Above, a copy of the Roswell Daily Record of July 8, 1947 in the UFO Museum. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

On Tuesday, July 8, 1947 (71 years ago today), the Roswell Daily Record published the famous front page article on how the RAAF (Roswell Army Air Field) captured a flying saucer.

Most images of the front page are on the small and illegible side. I scanned the article for your reading pleasure from a copy of the Roswell Daily Record that I got at the Roswell UFO Festival over the weekend.

Here it is: