Case file · 1947 · Unexplained Encounters
Roswell
The Saucer in the Desert
The US Army announces it has captured a flying saucer. Then it takes it back.
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This 8 min episode was written from the public record. These are the sources behind it.
- FBI Vault: Roswell UFO (1947 FBI teletype)
- US Government Accountability Office (GovInfo): Government Records: Results of a Search for Records Concerning the 1947 Crash Near Roswell, New Mexico (GAO report, 1995)
- US Air Force (via Project Gutenberg): The Roswell Report: Case Closed (official USAF report, 1997)
- Wikipedia: Roswell incident (overview)
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