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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.

Report quality: Moderate48/100

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  • Duration parsed: 75s, a plausible sighting length
  • Brief witness text (52 characters)
  • Location geocoded exactly
  • No other reports from this city within 3 days
When
July 1947
Where
Roswell, NM, USA
Shape
Disk
Duration
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Geo
33.394, -104.523 · exact
Slug
roswell-1947
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Next caseKenneth Arnold · Mt. RainierSame June–July 1947 wave — the flying-disc frame
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  • Historical wave1947

    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…

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In context

  • This is one of 4 reports logged in Loma Linda, CA.
  • This case is one of 814 California reports filed in 2015.
  • Rectangle craft made up 1.7% of 2010s reports, vs 1.7% across the whole archive.

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.

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