History: "What Really Happened at Roswell?"

Above, my reprint of the famous 1947 Roswell Daily Record front page of
 the finding of a flying saucer at an area ranch. Photo by Armand Vaquer.

It has been a while since I last posted anything concerning Roswell and UFOs. I did some checking around after this evening's post about this year's Roswell UFO Festival that will be held on July 3-5.

I found an interesting one that was posted last December at History.com titled, "What Really Happened at Roswell?"

It begins with:

In the annals of American UFO history, few incidents have inspired as much fascination—and speculation—as the one in Roswell, New Mexico. 

It began in the summer of 1947, at the dawn of the Cold War, when the U.S. Army Air Forces sent out a shocker of a press release, announcing they’d recovered a “flying disc” from a ranch near Roswell. More than 70 years later, the incident remains a defining aspect of the area’s identity: The town boasts a UFO museum and research center, a flying saucer-inspired McDonald’s, alien-themed streetlights, even an extraterrestrial “family” stranded in a broken-down UFO on the side of State Route 285, looking for a jump-start. 

But behind all the UFO mania lies an uneasy truth. The events that transpired that summer are anything but clear-cut, with admitted coverups and conflicting explanations: It was a saucer! It was a spy craft! It was the Soviets!  

And new ones are still emerging.

To read more, go here.