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Tonight, a strange discovery in the New
Mexico desert sparks a mystery that's

endured for nearly 80 years.

We know something crashed in that cheap
field on Roswell in 1947, but the parts

of the puzzle just don't add up.

Eye beams, silken strands of fiber
optics. No one is able to identify this

strange material.

This was a 200 -yard swath of debris,
which...

when it was all gathered up, only
weighed five pounds. How is that

The deeper researchers dig into what
witnesses saw, the more questions are

raised. Were they actual aliens or human
guinea pigs?

Whether people are skeptics or
believers, something crashed.

But the question is what?

We know that there was a government
cover -up because the government

as such, but...

We don't even know if that's the whole
story.

Now, we'll explore the top theories
surrounding one of America's most

incidents. This would possibly explain
all the different elements of the

crash. Some people saw bodies, some
people didn't. By now, there's so much

speculation. We don't know, and we may
never know.

What really fell out of the sky in 1947
in Roswell?

June 14, 1947, 80 miles northwest of
Roswell, New Mexico, a sheep rancher

Mack Brazel comes across something
highly unusual.

He was tending to some of the sheep, and
he noticed that they wouldn't cross a

particular field.

So he sets out and explores and finds
this debris field in the middle of

nowhere.

It looks like something was moving at a
high speed and crash landed and just

spread out there for 200 yards.

Given the remote nature of this site,
the logical conclusion must be that this

thing could only have come from the sky.

He wants to bring it in and turn it over
to some authorities, out of concern

that it might be some form of aviation
accident.

But Brazel's trip to Roswell is delayed.

And by the time he reaches the sheriff's
office with the crashed debris, two

other Roswell residents have also
witnessed something they can't explain.

On July 2nd, Dan Wilmoth is sitting on
his porch with his wife Mary

Grace, and suddenly they see this
strange object in the sky.

It's oval -shaped.

It's... very brightly illuminated as if
it's got its own internal light source,

and there's virtually no sound.

The object was about 10 to 20 feet in
diameter.

He thinks it was moving around 400 to
500 miles per hour, and they observe it

for about a minute, and then it goes
away.

After Brezel delivers the material, the
concerned sheriff immediately calls the

nearby army airfield.

The Roswell crash took... against the
backdrop of the modern flying saucer

phenomenon.

This all started on June 24th, 1947,
with Kenneth Arnold, a

pilot flying a light aircraft.

He claims that he has seen nine disc
-shaped aircraft flying in formation

Mount Rainier, flying at 1 ,200 miles an
hour, which is...

Three times as fast as the fastest
aircraft.

And the media really takes this up.

Newspapers quickly dubbed the objects
flying disks or flying saucers.

After his report becomes publicized, it
inspires other people to report that

they have also seen bizarre phenomena in
the skies. And we are in the midst of

flying saucer fever.

In that period between June and July
1947, there are hundreds of people

who report seeing flying saucers in the
sky.

Banner headlines day after day through
every news source around the country.

What are these flying saucers? Where are
they from?

But what Brazel discovered is an
altogether different story.

It's nothing fleeting in the nighttime
sky.

It's something recovered.

It's something that had crashed.

It escalates the whole situation to a
completely different level. The army

this extremely seriously.

And they actually send one of their
brightest and best, the base

officer, Jesse Marcel, out to
investigate.

They know.

that whatever it is, it's not a U .S.
military aircraft crash.

So now the situation is this. If it's
not the U .S. military, who or what is

On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army
Airfield puts out a press release saying

that they have found pieces of a flying
saucer.

We've had two weeks of flying saucer
fever, and now the U .S. military have

of these things.

The press release goes out, and it's
near hysteria.

The public takes it a lot more seriously
than could have possibly been expected.

Later that day, Major Marcel flies the
debris to Texas for further examination.

They arrive in Fort Worth. General Roger
Ramey, head of the 8th Air Force at

Carswell Army Airfield, wants to have a
press conference.

Then something really weird happened.

Within 24 hours of telling the world
that the U .S. military has recovered a

flying saucer, they flipped the
narrative.

General Ramey announced it to the press.

It was all a mistake.

It was all a overreaction. It's nothing
more than a very standard weather

balloon with a radar reflector type.

To help alleviate concerns from the
public, they release a photo with Major

Marcel hosing with what is said to be
debris from this weather balloon.

The cover story was totally believed.

Roswell just disappears from the
narrative for 30 years.

All is quiet until 1978, when Major
Jesse Marcel opens the floodgates on

Roswell witness statements.

Marcel is 71 years old. He's retired
from the military. But after 30 years,

he finally decides that it's time to go
public with this secret that he's been

hanging on to for all this time.

Jesse Marcel does an interview with
astronomer Stanton Friedman, during

confesses that he was told to stick to
the story that this is a weather balloon

and nothing else.

Marcel claims...

Those were not actually all of the
materials that he had recovered from the

near Roswell.

There's much more debris that's not in
the photos.

And he describes the material that he
found as being not of this earth.

There are silken strands like
microfilament fishing lines.

There are I -beam structures of a
pinkish -purplish hue with strange

that... Run the length of each piece.

And then Marcel describes the most
amazing material of all.

Paper thin, metal -like material,
practically weightless in your hands.

material you can crush, you can fold,
you can crease.

And each and every time it assumes its
original shape and size.

Today, we call this type of alloy a
shape memory alloy.

Shape memory alloys weren't widely
manufactured until the 1960s, though,

crash was in 1947.

It's easy to see why people would
believe Marcel.

He's a credible source, he's a former
intelligence officer, and he is now

that what the government said is not
true.

And this really is the beginning of this
idea that... there really might be a

massive government cover -up.

After speaking with Marcel, Friedman
begins collecting dozens of other

accounts from Roswell that describe a
second crash and a massive cover -up of

who was in it.

It's one thing to hear Jesse Marcel say
that it wasn't a weather balloon and

that whatever fell out of the sky came
from outer space.

But these are witnesses.

who are claiming to have seen something
that wasn't even human. The same day

that Jesse Marcel came back with the
debris from the ranch, a local

mortician, Glenn Dennis, also gets drawn
into a very weird part of the story

because as well as being a mortician, he
sometimes drives an ambulance.

He was delivering an injured person to
the airfield when he witnesses the

arrival of these materials and he also
sees this beam with purple and pink

hieroglyphic writing on it.

And he says because of his work in the
local funeral home, he is asked, do you

have a number of child -sized caskets?

And of course he's horrified.

And only later do people start to put
this together and say, well, wait a

minute, maybe it wasn't dead kids, but
dead aliens.

One of the witnesses who comes forward
all these 40 years later has some

and evidence of a second crash site near
Roswell.

A crew chief with the Roswell Fire
Department named Dan Dwyer comes forward

he wants to talk about the crash that
he'd heard about on the plains of San

Augustine. He says that he and another
fireman go to the site, but when they

there, they find that there's a
government recovery effort taking place.

Well, if this is just a regular crash,
why is the government involved?

Dwyer claims to have witnessed
essentially the collection of alien

He says there were two of them on
stretchers inside mortuary bag and a

that appeared to be severely injured.

Dwyer is not the only person who reports
bodies at this crash site.

An Air Force sergeant named Melvin Brown
claims that he was sent there to guard

the crash site. While he's there, he
claims that he sees two alien bodies.

Dennis Dwyer and Brown.

aren't the only ones. There are many
more witnesses who are claiming they saw

something. Now, whether it's debris or
bodies or lights in the sky, whatever

crashed in Roswell that night led to
people insisting that they saw something

extremely unusual.

When you take into account all of these
eyewitness testimonies and people seeing

these strange things, it's easy to see
why this flying saucer theory

might endure.

We may never know what happened, but we
have credible witnesses who have seen

things that are difficult to explain and
make it hard for the theory of the

weather balloon to really hold up.

Despite a flurry of additional
eyewitness accounts in the 1970s and

detailing new theories on what really
happened at Roswell, the Air Force

consistently maintains that what crashed
was only a weather balloon.

Part of the reason they stick with that
story is the story's working fine.

With the exception of arguably a niche
community, there's been no one really

challenging the official narrative.

Finally, in 1993, a congressman from New
Mexico, Stephen Schiff, starts to

pressure the federal government to
release more information.

In 1995...

The government releases the Roswell
Report facts versus fiction. It includes

shocking new revelation.

What crashed actually belonged to a
classified military program called

Mogul. The Air Force said we were
keeping a secret from people, but the

we were keeping wasn't aliens, it was a
spy program.

Highly classified.

In 1947, the United States is the only
nuclear power on Earth. It's very clear

to the Americans, though, that the
Soviets desperately want to develop

atomic weapon, but we don't have a good
way of knowing how well the Soviets are

doing in that pursuit.

Project Mogul is spearheaded by Maurice
Ewing, a U .S.

geophysicist, and is basically this
operation by the U .S. government to

spy balloons.

to sense the detonations of atomic
weaponry all the way around the globe by

Soviet Union.

The idea is to put microphones on
weather balloons, send them to this high

altitude, so if a particular nuclear
blast goes off and three of these

microphones receive that signal, they
can triangulate back to its original

source. This is what makes... a high
altitude balloon such an effective tool

here because it can float, remain steady
and be in the air for a really long

time. Some of these weather balloons
associated with Project Mogul are

They're 400 to 500 feet in diameter.

They're built to hover in place and they
fly at 100 ,000 to 200 ,000 feet.

They have to be able to carry 500 pounds
worth of equipment.

They have to be both lightweight and
really strong. So they need to be made

really, really advanced composite
materials.

They also have metallic substances that
are very light reflective, so they might

appear to glow.

Based on the shape, the dimension, and
the behavior of the Project Mogul

balloons, you can see why somebody might
conclude that these objects are flying

saucers. Between 1947 and 1949, Project
Mogul conducts a total of 110

top -secret research flights.

Most of these tests are happening
initially on the East Coast, but there's

much commercial traffic, so they decide
to launch these balloons instead from

Alamogordo Air Base in the Tularosa
Basin in southern New Mexico.

According to declassified documents
about Project Mogul,

First flight launched from Alamogordo
goes as far as Arabella, New Mexico.

Supposedly, on June 4th, 1947, it came
smashing down to Earth with all of its

radar reflection materials and other
sensors.

Looking back at the old photos, we see
what looks like radar reflectors. We see

what looks like shredded polyethylene
plastic.

The average person in 1947 wouldn't know
anything about that.

It doesn't really look like part of a
terrestrial aircraft, and so they're

fairly certain of what it's not.

But that doesn't mean that they actually
recognize what it is.

Even the highly trained people like
Jesse Marcel wouldn't recognize all of

material. So they'd be saying, yeah,
look, I know what a weather balloon

like, and this ain't it.

The report also has an explanation for
the purple hieroglyphics described by

witnesses.

The engineers that cobbled together some
of the early balloons for Project Mogul

had to use whatever materials they had
available.

Despite this being a highly classified
program, this was still the post -war

period. There were some shortages.

Occasionally, even the military had to
just make do.

And apparently, they used some
commercially available adhesive tape.

The tape that they're using is actually
just some leftovers that were unsold

from a children's toy company.

It's designed to attract a child's
attention.

It's just covered with colorful shapes
in pink and purple.

This tape is what the government
explained as the source of those

reports of the purple and pink
hieroglyphics on the metal beam.

By 1949, two years after Roswell,
Project Mogul is completely shut down.

For a number of reasons, Project Mogul
was terminated in...

1949, cost, security, practical
concerns, the most obvious of

which was that by that time the Soviets
had detonated their own bomb.

So we know they have it, and there is no
longer any need to listen for it.

Despite the declassification of these
documents, rumors persist that the

government is not being entirely
transparent.

The government's explanation of Project
Mogul.

Seems to make sense, and it seems to be
consistent with what people saw, except

that there's all these witnesses who
claim that they saw bodies.

There's nothing in Project Mogul that
included bodies.

So what is the story there?

In the 1990s, five decades after the
Roswell crash first made headlines in

The public's demand for answers reaches
a fever pitch.

By the 1990s, Americans have been
through Watergate, Iran -Contra, and the

Vietnam War. And Americans realize that
the federal government, and particularly

the U .S. military, is keeping a lot of
secrets.

And it makes sense that the Project
Mogul disclosure by the U .S. government

met with some skepticism because UFOs,
alien abductions, visits from another

planet, this was all in the zeitgeist
and it was reflected by the movies and

shows that we were watching.

We've got Star Wars, Independence Day,
and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.

Aliens were at the top of people's
minds.

And a lot of Americans still genuinely
believe that aliens landed in Roswell,

New Mexico in 1947.

It hasn't gone away.

Roswell continues to grow in relevance.

And there's more and more talk about the
bodies.

The Pentagon is compelled.

to come up with an explanation because
balloons don't have pilots.

Two years after the report revealing
Project Mogul, the government offers a

explanation. In 1997, the Air Force puts
out its second study called the Roswell

Report Case Closed.

1997 is the 50th anniversary of the
Roswell incident. And of course, the

Pentagon has to go and spoil the party.

First, they double down on Project
Mogul, but then they address the issue

bodies, and they say it's all due to a
program called Project High Dive.

After World War II.

Plane technology revolutionized, and
they began flying faster and higher than

anyone had ever thought possible. And
the Air Force wondered, if our pilots

to eject at a very high altitude, could
they survive a landing?

So hundreds of mannequins are deployed
from the atmosphere and studied as they

tumble back towards Earth.

There are at least 67 of the high dive
mannequin drops in the eastern

New Mexico area.

Some of them begin to spin at very high
rates and that sends them off course and

some of them actually land in civilian
areas.

The Air Force concludes the most likely
explanation for people claiming to have

seen dead alien bodies was that it's
possible that they actually had come

the aftermath of a high -altitude
situation where something went wrong and

experiment came plunging back to Earth.

So Project High Dive...

regularly sent scientists and soldiers
to recover these mannequins regardless

where they fell even in the most remote
places so the people that are coming

forward and claiming to have witnessed
soldiers with alien bodies might in fact

have just simply seen one of these
recovery efforts given the velocity with

which these mannequins hit the ground
you can see why witnesses might have

understood them to be small alien bodies
because they likely shattered and were

mangled upon impact.

Though this theory provides one
explanation, it raises new questions.

At the press conference in which the Air
Force is unveiling this report, the

media points out that the report
explicitly says that Project High Dive

in the 1950s while...

The Roswell events happened a couple
years before that in 1947.

Faced with this apparent contradiction,
the Air Force present an idea that is

basically in the heads of the witnesses.

They put forward what is known as time
compression.

Time compression is when people are
remembering important events at a

of many decades. They may conflate two
important events and remember them as

though they happened at the same time.

However, it seems unusual that people
would have compressed together memories

such import.

It's possible. It's possible. But it
also kind of strains credibility.

And that caused a lot of UFO researchers
to be absolutely convinced this was

just another government cover -up.

Despite what the Air Force is saying,
many of these Roswell witnesses stand by

their memories.

So if we believe that they saw actual
bodies, where did they come from?

It may be that there is a darker
explanation connected to some of the

associated with Roswell. There are still
questions that remain unanswered.

By the end of the 1990s, the United
States military had admitted that its

initial statement about the Roswell
crash was intentionally misleading.

and has offered two very different
explanations for what witnesses claim

saw in 1947.

But in 2000, a Polish journalist's
research uncovers a shocking new

for what actually fell out of the sky in
Roswell.

We still haven't got all the answers.

It's still a mystery. But now there's a
new theory which suggests that the

reason the government is covering all
this up... is because it involves Nazi

technology. There are a lot of people
that are convinced that what was

witnessed in the American Southwest were
secret Nazi programs.

People forget that in many areas, Nazi
technology was actually

much more advanced than Allied
technology.

The Nazis developed the first
operational jet fighter.

The Nazi V1, and in particular the V2,
were superweapons developed

by Wernher von Braun.

The Allies were desperate to get their
hands on von Braun and all the other

people who worked with him.

Following World War II, the United
States government started Operation

Paperclip, which brought around 1 ,500
German scientists.

to the United States and put them to
work developing all kinds of technology

the American military.

And paperclip was not just highly
classified but very sensitive because of

course we just had the Nuremberg trials.

We just had the footage of the
concentration camps and people were

bringing some of these Nazi scientists
over and putting them on the payroll.

That would not have played well with the
US public.

Some people think that the Roswell event
is related to early tests of these

former Nazi scientists and engineers
performing work in the US.

In 2000, the Polish journalist Igor
Witkowski...

publishes a book about the research and
development of a particular type of

German aircraft known as D -Glock.

This top -secret German aeronautical
program called D -Glock, or the Bell, is

essentially a vertical takeoff and
landing aircraft.

The idea is to have a jet engine that
effectively fires straight down,

lift. kind of like a rocket, but with an
air -breathing jet engine instead.

By changing the direction of the vanes
within the aircraft, you would be able

then move it laterally throughout the
sky.

Any advanced Nazi rocket technology
would have been developed by Wernher von

Braun. Even though the Nazis never
unleashed the Glocka on the battlefield,

Allies specifically pick up von Braun so
that he can bring his designs with him

to an army research base at White Sands,
New Mexico.

The book describes this incredible
machine as a glowing bell -shaped object

too dissimilar from the shape of a
flying saucer.

The similarities in shape, size, color,
and movement between Witkowski's

description of de Glocka and other
witness reports lead to the theory that

Braun is actually developing and testing
a prototype of de Glocka for the U .S.

military in 1947.

Witkowski claimed that the propulsion
system for the bell was something called

Xerum 525.

This is apparently a purple fluid that's
radioactive and or poisonous.

The night of the Roswell incident, a
number of eyewitnesses report that the

objects they saw in the sky did glow
with a kind of blue -violet glow, which

the color of the Xerum 525 gas.

So, according to this theory, it was
flown from White Sands and it fell apart

during the test and they found a
material at Roswell on the Foster Ranch.

Allegedly, the bodies of the aliens that
were found there were actually human

bodies, the bodies of test pilots who
were selected for their small size in

order to fit into the prototype.

To keep the crash of a Nazi -designed
superweapon a secret, they would need to

pretty quickly figure out a cover story.

Given the fact that there was this
flying saucer alien craze going on at

time, the government would have thought
that, hey, we could divert your

attention away from what's really going
on and people could grab a hold to this

ridiculous theory of aliens.

According to this theory, the story was
shared, however, without the approval of

higher -ranked officials, and so it had
to be quickly retracted, and that's why

the story of the weather balloon was
substituted for it instead.

When Project Paperclip was finally
declassified, however, there is no

the bell or of the testing of these
propulsion systems.

So either it never really happened, or
it was completely covered up.

In 2011, Pulitzer Prize -nominated
journalist Annie Jacobson proposes a new

theory about the Roswell crash.

Annie Jacobson writes a book contending
that what crashed in that field in

Roswell was not, in fact, an alien
spacecraft, but a Soviet aircraft.

In 1947, the United States is the only
nation on Earth that has the bomb.

The Soviets are desperate to catch up
and need to do something to maybe close

the gap.

Jacobson's theory is that the Soviets
devised a plan to make the Americans

that they're under attack.

Two German aerospace engineers, the
Horton brothers, had been part of a

in Nazi Germany to try to create what we
would refer to as a flying wing.

To the outside observer, it looks kind
of like a flat, almost oblong shape.

What the flying wing does is tries to
extend the range of an aircraft.

The Germans were convinced that if
American cities were threatened by

attack, then the Americans would not
have the stomach to continue the fight.

Jacobson argues that in the years after
the war, the Horton brothers went to the

Soviet Union and began to design new
technology and work on projects

for Joseph Stalin.

The brothers come up with this disc
-shaped craft based on the plans for

flying wing that is made of high -tech
materials that's really good at evading

radar detection.

According to Jacobson's theory, Joseph
Stalin saw another potential use for

aircraft. They want to develop nuclear
technology of their own so that they can

counter American world domination.

This plot is meant to, as the theory
goes, buy Joseph Stalin more time and

Russian scientists more time to develop
their atomic weapons.

Stalin comes up with this plan to
distract the U .S. military by staging

fake invasion.

Americans will be so freaked out and
disturbed by the idea of a UFO that it

will distract the American people, the
American government, and stop them from

continuing on with their atomic program.

There is precedence for pandemonium
being spurred by a supposed alien

In 1938, there was a radio reading of
Orson Welles' The War of the Worlds,

was so convincing that people actually
thought we were being invaded by aliens.

Joseph Stalin is pretty convinced that
the American public is gullible, and

willing to authorize even the most
harebrained schemes to try to convince

Americans of the possibility of invasion
from outer space.

As the theory goes, in the first week of
July 1947,

Stalin orders the flying disc to be
flown into U .S. airspace.

They decide that they're going to stage
this incident in the southwestern part

of the United States because there are a
lot of bases in that area.

White Sands, Area 51.

Roswell, these are all places where
military technology was being developed

where the Soviets hoped that they could
distract Americans from that technology.

We don't know how this flying disc, if
it was a Soviet flying disc, crashed.

Was it shot down? Did it crash of its
own accord?

But however it happened, the theory is
that it came down at Roswell.

And what's funny about this is that if
Jacobson's theory is correct, Then the

original story put out by the military
saying that it was a flying disc or

flying saucer that was recovered is
pretty much the true story.

Annie Jacobson's theory is this was all
designed to sow as much confusion as

possible. But the military changed their
story within 24 hours.

And this second official explanation
immediately scuppered Stalin's plan

if it's a weather balloon, clearly
there's going to be no panic.

Now, to close that nuclear gap, Stalin's
best bet then becomes putting all the

resources into developing the bomb,
which the Soviet Union actually does in

1949.

In 2017, an unexpected new theory about
the Roswell crash emerges, one

that asks just how far the US government
might go.

to keep its edge in the Cold War.

After World War II, the United States
government recognizes this need to keep

tabs on the Soviet Union.

And the best way to do that is to
develop high -altitude reconnaissance

aircraft. There is no such thing as
artificial satellite in 1947.

So what they needed was aircraft that
can fly over enemy defenses.

It became strategically imperative for
the United States to fly reconnaissance

aircraft at ever higher altitudes.

Prior to 1947, the highest altitude
anyone had ever flown at in a fixed

aircraft was 58 ,000 feet.

Mount Everest is 29 ,000 feet high, and
most commercial aircraft fly at 36

,000 feet. You are talking significantly
above any of that.

And the higher you go, the density of
the atmosphere falls off exponentially,

there's less and less oxygen available.

So that creates all kinds of challenges
for the pilot.

A lot of pilots pass out, lose
consciousness, sometimes for minutes at

The U .S. government was going to have
to run a lot of tests on how that would

be possible.

There is a theory that the United States
Air Force was conducting human

experiments, using individuals who would
not be missed by society.

In 2017, British researcher Nick Redfern
makes a connection between these high

altitude weather balloons that were used
for these experiments and what fell out

of the sky at Roswell.

So it's Nick Redfern's contention that
the Air Force is going to use these

modified weather balloons to start
testing how the body responds to such

extremely high altitude.

According to Redfern's theory, the...

People that were being used in these
tests were pulled from asylums, prisons,

and places where no one would notice and
no one would complain about them being

missing.

Redfern hypothesizes that they attach
these gondolas to the balloon, and they

put people in the gondola whom they are
forcing to engage in this experiment.

In the case of the Roswell crash, one of
these balloons separated from the

gondola and the balloon would have
crashed in one place, the gondola with

bodies of the victims in another place.

This would possibly explain all the
different elements of the Roswell crash.

Some people saw bodies, some people
didn't, some people saw debris at this

and others at a site much further away.
You have two different crashes.

of two very different things according
to redfern one of the individuals that

interviewed worked at fort stanton about
30 miles away from roswell and claimed

to have been part of a recovery effort
rushing a grievously injured individual

to the base facilities one person was
treated for injuries but apparently died

week or so later is this where we have
the story of the roswell survivor

redfern's theory has some historic
plausibility because there was a project

where they did experiments on people.
The American government conducted the

famous Tuskegee experiment, where men
who were tested to have syphilis were

monitored instead of being cured.

They were used as test subjects.

By the time of the Roswell crash, the
world is hearing these stories of

concentration camp victims being
experimented on.

And the idea that you could experiment
on people who weren't giving their

consent was condemned and banned by the
Nuremberg Code.

Certainly the U .S. wouldn't want to be
seen as engaging in the same behavior as

the Nazis.

Redfern alleges a massive government
cover -up. He claims that government

functionaries destroyed all of the
records and cremated the bodies as a

covering up the horrible research that
was being carried out.

Like many of the other theories around
Roswell, this one only raises more

questions. They would have used adults
in their tests, but people who saw the

bodies claimed that they were child
-sized. So that doesn't square with

Redfern's theory.

Whatever we believe, whether people are
skeptics or believers, Roswell is real.

Something crashed.

But the question is what?

It's not necessarily a...

The military would like to say on
Roswell, case closed.

Today, the town of Roswell has become a
thriving tourist destination for UFO

fanatics. But that's only one of the
possible explanations for what happened

Foster Ranch over 80 miles away.

Whether this was the crash site of a top
-secret test flight, a Cold War scheme,

or something truly unearthly,

Most of the eyewitnesses have long since
passed away, and the search for answers

continues.

I'm Lawrence Fishburne. Thank you for
watching History's Greatest Mysteries.