Seventy-five miles north of Carlsbad, the small ranching town of ROSWELL is renowned because an alien spaceship supposedly crash-landed nearby on July 4, 1947. The commander of the local air force base authorized a press statement announcing that they had retrieved the wreckage of a flying saucer, and despite a follow-up denial within a day claiming that it was in fact a weather balloon the story has kept running. In 1997, as 100,000 X-Files fanatics descended upon Roswell for a six-day festival to mark the "Incident's" fiftieth anniversary, the US government revealed that the … more »
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