Roswell Incident: From a 1947 Crash to a Contested UFO Mythos and Cultural Saga
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Roswell became the iconic UFO saga, evolving from alleged flying-disc reports by Jesse Marcel and Glenn Dennis to a weather-balloon explanation amid the postwar UFO craze, fueling conspiracies popularized by Stanton Friedman and William Moore and leaving a lasting cultural footprint despite official findings.