Roswell: From a Local 1947 Incident to a National UFO Saga (1978–2000)

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Roswell grew into America's defining UFO saga through a chain of conflicting testimonies and deliberate deceptions that began with Jesse Marcel Sr.'s 1978 remarks and continued with later disinformation, keeping the question of what Mac Brazel found in 1947 unresolved.

The Mythology Machine
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The Mythology Machine

Between 1978 and 2000, Roswell transformed from a forgotten local incident into the defining UFO event in American history. Some of that transformation was accidental. Some of it was manufactured by people working for the government, who later confessed.