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CD 82 very little hard proof. A few cases have risen above the rest in credibility, however. In these cases, there seems to be little doubt that something crashed and was allegedly recovered by secret military forces. The question is: What was it? This much is fact: On July 4, 1947, something fell to the earth and crashed on a remote ranch outside of Roswell, New Mexico. It was quickly recovered by the United States Army Air Force and shipped off to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. Events actually began earlier that week when radar operators in Roswell detected strange images darting at high speeds across their radarscopes. Then on July 4, a severe thunderstorm struck Roswell. The next day, rancher Mac Brazel found a large amount of “strange debris” on his ranch. At the same time, a group of archaeologists stumbled upon a metallic disk that had crashed into the hillside. It was cracked open and four or five gray-type E‘T’s were lying inside and outside the craft, with two ap- parently still alive. The military converged upon the scene and quickly carted everything away. The next day, the military released a statement to the press saying that they had recovered a “flying disk.” ‘This incredible announcement shocked the world. The following day, however, the military released another statement: They had made a mistake. It wasn’t a crashed UFO; it was only a “weather balloon.” The media accepted the new explanation, and the entire story faded away. For more than 20 years, all the witnesses involved in the Roswell incident said nothing. Then, in the early 1970s, Major Jesse Marcel decided he could no longer remain silent. Major Marcel was an Army Intelligence officer at Roswell, and was one of the first people to visit the crash site and handle the wreckage. UFOS AND ALIENS most of these cases are short on evidence; there are lots of stories, but THE ROSWELL UFO CRASH