The most famous UFO case happened in 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico. On July 4, many people from the
town saw a large bright object fall from the sky and crash. A local rancher found pieces of metal
from the crash site. He noticed the pieces did not bend or break. He found other unusual things
too. He saw strange markings and symbols on some pieces. He called the police and the United
States Army came to the crash site.
On July 8, the United States Army told newspapers that it had found a flying disc in the area.
Later that day, the army changed its story. It now said the object they found was actually a
weather balloon. The army showed some of the pieces from the crash site to photographers. They
looked like regular balloon pieces. However, some people who had visited the crash site said that
these were not the same as what they had found there. This caused people to wonder if the military
was lying about finding a UFO.
For the next week, the army cleaned up the crash site. It would not permit people to visit or see
it. No one could get near the crash site. People who worked at the local military base said they
saw some very strange things during this time. Some of them say they saw alien corpses taken to
the base. Along with the dead aliens, they also saw the wreckage of a crashed alien spacecraft.
However, the United States military has always insisted that the events near Roswell in 1947 had
nothing to do with aliens or spacecraft.
In a 1997 survey, more than half of Americans said they believed an alien spacecraft crashed in
Roswell. They also said the American military had lied and was trying to cover up the UFO
crash. What really happened on July 4, 1947 in Roswell, New Mexico? No one seems to really know.