CaseDisk1947
Roswell, NM, USA
In early July 1947, the U.S. Army Air Forces announced it had recovered a 'flying disc' from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico — then retracted the claim within hours.
- When
- July 1947
- Where
- Roswell, NM, USA
- Shape
- Disk
- Duration
- —
- Geo
- 33.394, -104.523 · exact
- Slug
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Wave
Part of a wave
The Summer of the Saucers
United States (nationwide within two weeks of Arnold)
Kenneth Arnold's June 24 sighting near Mt. Rainier — nine crescent objects 'skipping like saucers' — was misrendered by the press as 'flying saucers', and within days America saw them everywhere. On July 8, Roswell Army…
Notes
The founding myth of UFO crash-retrieval lore: an official admission, a rapid retraction, and three decades of silence that let memory and legend fuse.