Roswell 1947: Debris, Official Explanations, and the Ongoing Theories (including 2024 claims)
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In July 1947 near Roswell, Mack Brazel’s debris sparked an initial claim of a flying saucer that was quickly retracted as weather-balloon wreckage, drawing in Major Jesse Marcel and Brigadier General Roger Ramey and fueling rumors of a crashed craft, unusual debris, a site press conference, and non-human bodies, with later official explanations blaming Project Mogul and crash-test dummies while ufologists Don Schmitt and Kevin Randle, and later Luis Elizondo, argued for hidden truths about non-human samples and inexplicable materials, spawning a wide range of theories and a lasting cultural aura around what happened and what archives might still hide.