On July 7, 1947, an object crash landed on a ranch, approximately 75 miles northwest of Roswell,New Mexico, leaving a large field of debris. On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut, issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Operations Group had recovered a "flying disk", which had crashed on a ranch near Roswell.
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On March 22, 1950 a memo was sent by Federal special agent Guy Hottel, who was in charge of the FBI Washington Field Office, to FBI Director J Edgar Hoover. Memo suggested the US military found three metallic, saucer-shaped objects, complete with occupants, near New Mexico, in the USA.
It said: "An investigator for the Air Forces states that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three-feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a very fine texture."
Subsequently the incident faded from the attention of UFO researchers for over 30 years.
In 1978, physicist and ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story spread through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.
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Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen about the event.
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