"more patches of tinfoil and rubber."" On July 8, 1947, 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 disc"", which had crashed on a ranch near Roswell. As described in the July 9, 1947 edition of the ""Roswell Daily Record"", The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been 12 feet [3.5 m] long, [Brazel] felt, measuring the distance by the size of the room in which he sat. The rubber was smoky gray in"
"story in books claiming the purported crash was real. In 2013, an FBI memo claimed by some Ufologists to substantiate the crash story was dismissed by the bureau as ""a second- or third-hand claim that we never investigated"". According to Scully, in March 1948 an unidentified aerial craft containing sixteen humanoid bodies was recovered by the military in New Mexico after making a controlled landing in Hart Canyon 12 miles northeast of the city of Aztec. The craft was said to be in diameter, the largest UFO to date. Scully named as his sources two men identified as Newton and"
"and of a conspiracy theory regarding a classified program named ""Mogul"". Many UFO proponents maintain that an alien craft was found and its occupants were captured, and that the military then engaged in a cover-up. In recent times, the business community has deliberately sought out tourists interested in UFOs, science fiction, and aliens. In 1978–79 and 2002, Roswell was named one of the All-American cities. Roswell hosted the record-breaking skydive by Felix Baumgartner on October 14, 2012. Roswell is located in southeastern New Mexico about west of the Pecos River and some east of highlands that rise to the Sierra"
"objects (UFOs). Some early reports came from late November 1948, but were at first dismissed as military green flares. Then on the night of December 5, 1948, two separate plane crews, one military (Air Force C-47, Captain Goede, 9:27 p.m., east of Albuquerque) and one civilian (DC-3, Pioneer Flight 63, 9:35 p.m., east of Las Vegas, New Mexico), each asserted that they had seen a ""green ball of fire""; the C-47 crew had seen an identical object 22 minutes before near Las Vegas. The military crew described the light as like a huge green meteor except it arched upwards and"
"on July 10, 1947, only two days after the infamous Roswell UFO incident and only 70 miles north of Roswell near Fort Sumner, N.M. As reported in a LIFE magazine article on UFOs in 1952, though LaPaz was not identified at the time, ""all four of us almost simultaneously became aware of a curious bright object almost motionless"" among the clouds. ""As seen projected against these dark clouds, the object gave the strongest impression of self-luminosity."" It ""showed a sharp and firm regular outline, namely one of a smooth elliptical character much harder and sharper than the edges of the"
"Morristown UFO hoax The Morristown UFO hoax was originally thought to be an unidentified aerial event, of mysterious floating red lights, that occurred near Morristown, New Jersey, on Monday, January 5, 2009, between 8:15 pm and 9:00 pm. The lights were later observed on 4 other days: January 26, January 29, February 7, and February 17, 2009. The events were actually a hoax, meant as a social experiment. Five flare lights attached to helium balloons were released by Joe Rudy and Chris Russo and seen in the skies above Morris County, New Jersey. Sightings were concentrated in the towns of"
"Aurora, Texas, UFO incident The Aurora, Texas, UFO incident reportedly occurred on April 17, 1897 when, according to locals, a UFO crashed on a farm near Aurora, Texas. The incident (similar to the more famous Roswell UFO incident 50 years later) is claimed to have resulted in a fatality from the crash and the alleged alien body is to have been buried in an unmarked grave at the local cemetery. During the 1896–1897 timeframe, numerous sightings of a cigar-shaped mystery airship were reported across the United States. One of these accounts appeared in the April 17, 1897, edition of the"
"to the northeast is Dawson, New Mexico, a ghost town with a population of over 9,000 near the early 20th century, and the Raton Municipal Airport, respectively. The village is a pioneer of the four-day school week (Mon.-Thur.), which it originally implemented in the early 1970s, during a time of rising fuel and utility prices. Cimarron is home to the 1979 New Mexico High School Boys Basketball State Championship team. To avoid the harsh conditions, lack of water, and attacks from Indians along the Cimarron Cutoff of the Santa Fe Trail, wagon traffic used the original Mountain Route during the"
"a UFO over Enchanted Mesa. Over the next several days, other officers reported ""a red light, faster than any aircraft"". A helicopter was dispatched to the top with the governor of the pueblo and a police officer, but no direct evidence of a UFO was found. The massive cliffs are formed by the Zuni Sandstone and the butte is topped by the Dakota Sandstone. Enchanted Mesa Enchanted Mesa is a sandstone butte in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States, about northeast of the pueblo of Acoma. It is called Mesa Encantada in Spanish and Katzimo or Kadzima in Keresan. Acoma"
"Villa Guerrero, State of Mexico Villa Guerrero is a town and municipality in the State of Mexico, Mexico. It is located on the southern slopes of the Nevado de Toluca, which is also known as ""Xicnahuitecatl"", and is 50 minutes/58 km from Toluca. Its original name was Tequaloyan, which literally in Náhuatl means ""place where there are wild beasts that devour men"". The Prehispanic philosophy said that Tequani u Ocelotl (jaguar) was the symbol of the west, where the sun goes underground, to make a nocturnal trip and visit the Mictlan or Dead World, sharing its trip with the Wolf"
"Fort Worth, Texas office quoted a Major from the Eighth Air Force (also based in Fort Worth at Carswell Air Force Base) on July 8, 1947 as saying that ""The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a by cable, which was approximately twenty feet (6 m) in diameter. Major Curtan further advices that the object found resembles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector, but that telephonic conversation between their office and Wright field had not [UNINTELLIGIBLE] borne out this belief."" Early on Tuesday, July 8, the RAAF issued a press release, which was immediately"
"Grenada in order to mark the ""Year of UFOs."" On 20 November 1952, Adamski and several friends were in the Colorado Desert near the town of Desert Center, California, when they purportedly saw a large submarine-shaped object hovering in the sky. Believing that the ship was looking for him, Adamski is said to have left his friends and to have headed away from the main road. Shortly afterwards, according to Adamski's accounts, a scout ship made of a type of translucent metal landed close to him, and its pilot, a Venusian called Orthon, disembarked and sought him out. Adamski claimed"
"same time as the famous Roswell UFO incident. LaPaz, however, remained anonymous. Also described was a 1949 UFO sighting by astronomer Clyde Tombaugh, the discoverer of Pluto (Life magazine article). In January 1953 LaPaz was quoted in newspaper articles saying the green fireballs were artificial devices and might be a Soviet missile scouting the U.S. and other parts of the world. According to Ruppelt, the green fireballs reappeared in September 1954. One the size of a full moon was seen streaking southeast across Colorado, lighting up Denver, and into northern New Mexico. It was seen by thousands at a football"
"Folsom, New Mexico Folsom is a village in Union County, New Mexico, United States. The population was 56 at the 2010 census, down from 75 in 2000. The town was named after Frances Folsom, the fiancee of President Grover Cleveland. Folsom gives its name to the nearby type site for the Folsom Tradition, a Paleo-Indian cultural sequence dating to between 9000 BC and 8000 BC. The Folsom Site, about 8 miles west of the village, was excavated in 1926 and found to have been a marsh-side kill site or camp where 23 bison had been killed using distinctive tools, known"
"electrical storm. On the evening of November 2, 1957, two immigrant farm workers, Pedro Saucedo and Joe Salaz, called the Levelland police department to report a UFO sighting. Saucedo told police officer A.J. Fowler, who was working the night desk at the police station, that they had been driving four miles (6 km) west of Levelland when they saw a blue flash of light near the road. They claimed their truck's engine died, and a rocket-shaped object rose up and approached the truck. According to Saucedo, ""I jumped out of the truck and hit the dirt because I was afraid."
"the railroad for his death. Because of the war, the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent Special Agent R.J. Untreiner to investigate. The Bureau found no signs of sabotage and that it was an accident. While ""The New York Times"" reported only a single paragraph about the accident, it was front page news in New Mexico newspapers. Because of that news coverage, officials of the Manhattan Project issued a cover story of an ammunition explosion on the Alamogordo Air Force Base on July 16, 1945 after the test of the first atomic bomb. While the town had been declining for years,"
"Tolar, New Mexico Tolar, New Mexico (pronounced TOL-er) is a ghost town in the panhandle of northern Roosevelt County that existed in the 20th Century. The site is at the intersection of New Mexico State Road 86 and U.S. Routes 60 and 84 between Fort Sumner in De Baca County and Melrose in Curry County. Tolar was established as a stop on the Belen Cutoff of the Santa Fe Railway in 1907. A train carrying munitions exploded there in 1944, causing the largest accidental explosion in New Mexico history. The first settler in the vicinity of Tolar was Alvin Ellender"
"Walker Air Force Base Walker Air Force Base is a closed United States Air Force base located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Roswell, New Mexico. It was opened in 1941 as an Army Air Corps flying school and was active during World War II and the postwar era as Roswell Army Air Field. During the early years of the Cold War, it became the largest base of the Strategic Air Command. It is also known for the Roswell UFO incident, an event that supposedly happened on July 4, 1947. It is alleged that a"
"represented the city as Miss New Mexico USA. Alamogordo, New Mexico Alamogordo is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base. The population was 30,403 as of the 2010 census. Alamogordo is known for its connection with the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic bomb. Humans have lived in the Alamogordo area for at least 11,000 years. The present settlement, established in 1898 to support the construction of"
"Los Alamos, New Mexico Los Alamos (, meaning ""The Cottonwoods"" or ""The Poplars"") is a town in Los Alamos County, New Mexico, United States that is recognized as the birthplace of the atomic bomb––the primary objective of the Manhattan Project by Los Alamos National Laboratory during World War II. The town is located on four mesas of the Pajarito Plateau, and has a population of 12,019. It is the county seat and one of two population centers in the county known as census-designated places (CDPs); the other is White Rock. Los Alamos is built on the Pajarito Plateau between White"
"Red Hill, New Mexico Red Hill is a ghost town in Catron County, New Mexico, United States, west of Quemado. Also known as the Quemado volcanic field, Red Hill is 24 kilometers east of the larger Springerville volcanic field and immediately south of the Zuni Salt Lake field. The area is made up of scoria cone and silicic dome fields The last eruption was 23,000 yrs B.P. In 1836 a prospector named Adams staggered into the town of Piños Altos. With multiple arrow wounds and close to death, he told several people gathered around him that he had been prospecting"
"Bruja"" (2011–2013), published by Yahoo! Argentina and replicated in other sites of the company in the Americas. He currently edits the blog factor 302.4 / Factorelblog.com The enigma of the Uritorco. In January 1986 there was an alleged ""UFO landing"" on a slope of the Sierras del Pajarillo, near Capilla del Monte, Córdoba Province, Argentina. Agostinelli traveled there, took measures and samples, and found that the alleged evidence of landing, called a ""stain"", had not been caused ""from above"" by ""an object emitting heat"", as stated in an official press release, but that the heat could have ascended from the"
"was due to misidentified ball lightning. When this debunking was itself debunked (notably by atmospheric physicist and UFO advocate Dr. James E. McDonald), Klass switched gears and suggested the Zamora sighting was part of a scheme Zamora had invented with Socorro's then mayor, Holm Bursum, Jr., to attract tourism, claiming Bursum owned the land where Zamora's encounter occurred. Bursum didn't own the property as Klass claimed. Klass nevertheless claimed that Bursum hoped Zamora's ""fabricated"" UFO story would lure tourists to Socorro, and Bursum could then develop the UFO landing site into a tourist attraction. Both Bursum and Zamora consistently denied"
"and other states. LaPaz was widely quoted saying that such a concentration of fireballs was unprecedented in history, and he didn't believe they were a natural phenomenon. (More details below in Atomic testing and fallout theory) In April 1952 the green fireballs and Project Twinkle were written up in a famous ""Life"" magazine article titled ""Have We Visitors From Space?"" A recent green fireball incident over Arizona from November 1951 was mentioned. LaPaz again repeated why the fireballs could not be ordinary meteors. The article also described LaPaz's UFO sighting near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 10, 1947, about the"
"Lonnie Zamora incident The Lonnie Zamora incident was an alleged UFO close encounter which occurred on Friday, April 24, 1964, at about 5:50 p.m., on the outskirts of Socorro, New Mexico. Several primary witnesses emerged to report their version of the event, which included the craft's approach, conspicuous flame, and alleged physical evidence left behind immediately afterward. Lonnie Zamora, a Socorro police officer who was on duty at the time, claimed to have come closest to the object and provided the most prolonged and comprehensive account. Some physical trace evidence left behind—burned vegetation and soil, ground landing impressions, and metal"
"in 1874. On January 5, 2009, five red lights were spotted in the Morristown area night skies. The event was a staged hoax using helium balloons and flares, but became nationally known as the Morristown UFO hoax. According to the United States Census Bureau, Morristown had a total area of 3.026 square miles (7.839 km), including 2.929 square miles (7.587 km) of land and 0.097 square miles (0.252 km) of water (3.22%). Morristown is completely surrounded by Morris Township, making it part of 21 pairs of ""doughnut towns"" in the state, where one municipality entirely surrounds another. The downtown shopping"
"could detect the electricity that it emits ... it emits a million volts on the outer skin."" The balloon, tracked by helicopters, drifted for , passing through Adams County and Weld County. Planes were rerouted around the balloon's flight path. Reports that Denver International Airport was briefly shut down were later determined to be incorrect. The balloon finally landed two hours later at around 1:35 PM local time near Keenesburg, northeast of Denver International Airport (at ). When the boy was not found inside the balloon, officials expressed concern that he might have fallen out during the flight. Although it"
"Science, Albuquerque Biological Park, and the Petroglyph National Monument. The city is the location of the New Mexico Technology Corridor, a concentration of high-tech private companies and government institutions. Albuquerque is also the home of the International Balloon Fiesta, the world's largest such gathering of hot-air balloons from around the globe, taking place every October. The name of the city has its origin through Latin, deriving from ""albus quercus"" meaning ""white oak"". The name was probably given in reference to the prevalence of cork oaks in the province of Badajoz, which have white wood when the bark is removed. The"
"Ancho, New Mexico Ancho is an unincorporated ghost town in Lincoln County, New Mexico, United States. Located west of the Lincoln National Forest 2 miles east of U.S. highway 54, north of the town of Carrizozo. With the arrival of the railway in 1901 and the discovery of gypsum and clay, the Ancho Brick Plant was established and began producing bricks. The plant eventually grew to 16 kilns. In 1906, the Ancho Brick Plant supplied several tons of bricks which were shipped by railway to San Francisco to help rebuild the city after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. When Highway"
"buildings were moved. Nowadays what remains are a few houses and the school (the largest building). Rio Tinto, Nevada Rio Tinto is a ghost town in Elko County, Nevada in the United States. Rio Tinto was one of the last mining boom towns. It was named after the prosperous copper mines in Andalusia, Spain that produced ore for 3,000 years.. The discovery of copper mines near Rio Tinto is credited to Franklyn Hunt who had explored in the west for many years. Hunt had found traces of copper a few miles from Mountain City, Nevada. He had claimed his discovery,"
"Alamogordo, New Mexico Alamogordo is the seat of Otero County, New Mexico, United States. A city in the Tularosa Basin of the Chihuahuan Desert, it is bordered on the east by the Sacramento Mountains and to the west by Holloman Air Force Base. The population was 30,403 as of the 2010 census. Alamogordo is known for its connection with the Trinity test, the first explosion of an atomic bomb. Humans have lived in the Alamogordo area for at least 11,000 years. The present settlement, established in 1898 to support the construction of the El Paso and Northeastern Railroad, is an"
"Force said they were merely F-16 Fighting Falcon jets conducting night flights from NAS JRB Fort Worth. Washington Post blogger Emil Steiner reported that conspiracy theories had arisen claiming that reporter Angelia Joiner was fired from her job at the Empire-Tribune due to her reporting of the UFO story. Steiner added, ""conjecture breeds conspiracy theories. Any official denial can be labeled a cover-up"". Herald Tribute writer Billy Cox wrote that inquiries made about the incident on his personal UFO blog have been ""stonewalled"" by the USAF. <br> Stephenville, Texas Stephenville is a city in and the county seat of Erath"
"Mexico issued a press release saying that they had recovered a ""flying disc"" from a nearby ranch, the so-called Roswell UFO incident, which was front-page news until the military issued a retraction saying that it was a weather balloon. On July 9, the Army Air Force Directorate of Intelligence, assisted by the FBI, began a secret study of the best of the flying saucer reports, including Arnold's and the United Airlines' crew. Three weeks later they issued an intelligence estimate describing the typical characteristics reported (including that they were often reported as disc-like and metallic) and concluded that something was"