UFOs | Extraterrestrial Spacecraft Did Not Crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947

Keay Davidson is a science reporter for the San Francisco Examiner and the author of Wrinkles in Time (with George Smoot) and Twister.

Summary: The famous extraterrestrial spacecraft that crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and the alien corpses recovered and hidden by the U.S. government are fables with no basis in fact. The theories spawned by the Roswell incident constitute an apt example of the mass hysteria movements that periodically occur in American history. The entertainment industry has capitalized on the Roswell myth, marking it...

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