News of the fall of an unidentified flying object (UFO) in Roswell, New Mexico, shocked the surrounding community. However, the events that occurred on July 8, 1947, until now seem nothing more than an urban legend.
Nick Pope, who ran the British Government's UFO project from 1991 to 1994, in an interview with the DailyMail, said that the US military at the time released a press release that they found the flying disc confusing.
The debris disc was first discovered by WW 'Mac' Brazel, a farmer who was taking his sheep to a nearby river. Brazel saw the debris on his ranch and called the authorities for a deeper analysis, and they determined it was a flying saucer. However, this information was corrected shortly after it was announced.
"The disc was previously seen for several weeks in the US. But 24 hours later, they completely reversed the narrative," he was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail, Monday (11/7/2022).
Pope surmises that if the debris at Roswell didn't come from Earth, it could be one of the best headlines in American history.
When the military higher-ups quickly retracted their statement, it was too late. The legend of Roswell as the 'UFO capital of the world' immediately echoed.
The events that are now known as the 'Roswell Incident' also gave birth to the modern movement of UFO sightings, along with the science fiction genre about aliens. Since then, UFOs, aliens, ETs and stories about them have become more and more popular.
Quoted from the Washington Post, the incident had also raised fears of war. World War II had ended less than two years earlier, and the United States and the Soviet Union appeared to be on the brink of another global conflict.
Then the term 'Cold War' was coined by George Orwell in a 1945 essay and entered modern consciousness when Bernard Baruch, an adviser to President Harry S Truman, uttered it in a speech in the spring of 1947.
Pope also points out that every UFO book written in the 1950s through the 1960s does not include any information about the Roswell events.
He explained that it would be very interesting if the 75-year-old case could be solved and if it turned out to be true that the debris came from a UFO.