Roswell 1947: Debris on Foster Ranch, Conflicting Explanations, and the Birth of UFO Lore

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Roswell’s 1947 episode began with W. W. Brazel finding debris and sheriff George Wilcox involving the 509th, with Major Jesse Marcel helping recover it, was sensationalized as a captured flying saucer, later officially denied by Brigadier General Roger Ramey as a crashed weather balloon, and since then researchers like Stanton Friedman, authors Berlitz and Moore, and witnesses such as Loretta and Floyd Proctor have kept the mystery alive through books and reports that debate what crashed, whether aliens were involved, and why competing accounts proliferated.