The 1947 announcement
In July 1947, debris of metal fragments and rubber-like material was found on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. The local Army Air Field announced that it had recovered a “flying disc,” but the next day corrected this, saying it had been a weather balloon.
The spread of the alien recovery theory
The incident was largely forgotten until the late 1970s, when books and TV programs collecting witness testimony appeared one after another, and the theory that “the military recovered a crashed UFO and the bodies of aliens and is hiding them” became widely known.
The US Air Force’s explanation
In the 1990s, the US Air Force released reports explaining that the debris came from Project Mogul, a top-secret balloon program designed to detect Soviet nuclear tests. It attributed testimony about alien bodies to confusion with memories of dummies used in later drop tests. Many people remain unconvinced, however, and Roswell is still the center of UFO legend. The Grey alien resembles the beings described in these stories.
