On this day in 1947, a weather balloon crashed on a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico.
Only it didn't, because that is a lie and everything we know is a lie - that weather balloon was aliens. Aliens crashed here nearly a quarter of a century ago and now we have holograms and hoverboards and shit. Quit kidding yourselves.
Roswellian William Brazel was the first to find the wreckage, which was 30 miles north of the town, describing it to papers to be a flying saucer. However it wasn't until July that Brazel decided to tell someone that he had found a UFO, which resulted in the army arriving on the ranch to collect the pieces.
Initial reports ran with the description given by Brazel, but the story instantly died out when the army issued a statement that it was just a weather balloon.
But then, something happened.
Ten days after Brazel found the wreck there was the Kenneth Arnold UFO Sighting, the first national news story of somebody seeing a flying saucer. Because of this, the Roswell incident was hot shit again for UFO enthusiasts, especially when people began to realise there was a top secret base called Area 51 near by.
So did aliens crash land in 1947 and has their technology been harnessed by the US government for top secret weaponry and touch screen phones? Well either that or it was just a top secret nuclear test surveillance device that the government claimed was a weather balloon for security purposes, and I know which one sounds cooler.
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