
The episode discusses the Roswell crash and the surrounding conspiracy theories regarding extraterrestrial spacecraft.
Debris found by a rancher in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico , has become the basis for UFO conspiracy theories alleging that the United States military recovered a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. After metallic and rubber debris was recovered by Roswell Army Air Field personnel, the United States Army Air Forces [a] announced possession of a " flying disc ". This announcement made international headlines, but was retracted within a day. The debris was from a complex and uncrewed military balloon train consisting of linked balloons and assorted equipment, operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field as part of the top-secret Project Mogul , a program intended to detect Soviet nuclear tests . [b] To obscure the purpose and source of the debris, the army reported that it was merely a conventional weather balloon .Or a real UFO? Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/forbidden-realms-late-night-show-with-gary--2788432/support .
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