On this day, July 8, 1947, this was the front page of the Roswell Daily Record:

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• 1947 – Following reports of the capture of a "flying disc" by U.S. Army Air Force personnel near Roswell, New Mexico, the military stated that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.

Wed Jul 8, 2020: Roswell was this week 1947:

Roswell was this week 1947:

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1. I'm going to be there in a few weeks actually

I'm going to treat my family to some of the local alien attractions that I got to visit a couple years ago

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4. Be sure to check out the two amazing art museums

there, also.

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2. The town's website is a hoot.

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3. Not only is the UFO museum in Roswell interesting on many levels,

that city also has a couple of spectacular art museums you should not miss.

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5. "75 years ago, rancher W.W. Brazel walked into a sheriff's office to report a 'flying disk.'"

75 years ago, rancher W.W. Brazel walked into a sheriff’s office to report a “flying disk.”

The event that we know today as the “Roswell Incident” gave birth to the modern movement of UFO sightings, along with the genre of alien science fiction.

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75 years ago, Roswell ‘flying saucer’ report sparked UFO obsession
The event that we know today as the "Roswell Incident" gave birth to the modern movement of UFO sightings, along with the genre of alien

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6. Also from the summer of 1947:

Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting



On June 26, 1947, the Chicago Sun coverage of the story may have been the first use ever of the term "flying saucer".

The Kenneth Arnold UFO sighting occurred on June 24, 1947, when private pilot Kenneth Arnold claimed that he saw a string of nine, shiny unidentified flying objects flying past Mount Rainier at speeds that Arnold estimated at a minimum of 1,200 miles an hour (1,932 km/hr). This was the first post-World War II sighting in the United States that garnered nationwide news coverage and is credited with being the first of the modern era of UFO sightings, including numerous reported sightings over the next two to three weeks. Arnold's description of the objects also led to the press quickly coining the terms flying saucer and flying disc as popular descriptive terms for UFOs.

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