BookskepticAcademic1997

UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth

Two anthropologists and the meteorologist who worked on the actual Project Mogul balloon flights analyze the Roswell story's growth from a 1947 press retraction into a full mythology, applying anthropological theory to explain how and why witness testimony expanded so dramatically across decades of retelling.

Author
Benson Saler, Charles A. Ziegler & Charles B. Moore
Published
1997
Library rank
#92

Why it matters

The most rigorous anthropological case study of how a modern crash-retrieval myth actually forms and grows.