The Roswell incident was an event that occurred in 1947, pertaining to the recovery of mundane metallic and rubber debris from a military balloon that crashed near Corona, New Mexico by United States Army Air Forces officers from Roswell Army Air Field.
Decades later, conspiracy theories began claiming that the debris involved a flying saucer and that the truth had been covered up by the United States government.
On July 8, 1947, Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release stating that they had recovered a “flying disc”. The Army quickly retracted the statement and said instead that the crashed object was a conventional weather balloon.
