Roswell
Last updated 8 October 2019
(Roswell newspaper, n.d.)
In June 1947, near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, William Brazel heard an explosion during a storm. The next day he found a metal wreckage like nothing her had ever seen on Earth. Another local man, claimed her had found a crashed UFO and four alien bodies in the same area (Pipe, 2007).
Did aliens land at Roswell in 1947?
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Roswell
Roswell incident
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- 001.94
- 001.942
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Australian/New Zealand Reference Centre
Barber, E. (2013, July 8). Google Doodle: What happened at Roswell? Christian Science Monitor. Retrieved from Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre database.
UFO claim `true’: spy Roswell Incident. (2012). MX Sydney, 7. Retrieved from Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre database.
Rothman, L. (2015). How the Roswell UFO Theory Got Started. Time.Com. Retrieved from Australia / New Zealand Reference Centre database.
Gildenberg, B. D. (2003). A Roswell requiem. Skeptic, 10(1), 60. Retrieved from Science Reference Centre database.
Websites
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History of the Roswell UFO incident. (2008). Retrieved from https://science.howstuffworks.com/space/aliens-ufos/history-roswell-incident.htm
Korff, K.K. (1997). What really happened at Roswell? Skeptical Inquirer, 21(4). Retrieved from https://skepticalinquirer.org/1997/07/what_really_happened_at_roswell/?%2Fsi%2Fshow%2Fwhat_really_happened_at_roswell
Roswell. (2019). Retrieved from https://www.history.com/topics/paranormal/roswell
The Roswell incident: how “UFO sightings” sparked 70 years of conspiracy theories. (2018, June 26). The Week. Retrieved from https://www.theweek.co.uk/us/59331/roswell-ufo-crash-what-really-happened-67-years-ago
Videos
TIME. (2012, July 6). UFO mystery: the 65th anniversary of Roswell [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD3gETJeCkg
Studio 10. (2016, February 10). The truth about the Roswell UFO [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-C0BnreoWU
LTV’s Wife. (2018, July 31). Roswell documentary [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEaFg1IbXDc
References
Pipe, J. (2007). Fact or fiction?: aliens, monsters and ghosts. Tunbridge Wells: Ticktock Entertainment.
Roswell Newspaper [Image]. (n.d.).Genius. Retrieved from http://genius.com/98214/Jay-electronica-my-world-nas-salute/Im-over-the-hills-like-ufos-at-roswell