Roswell: The ‘Flying Disc’ Press Release That Started It All (1947)
On 8 July 1947 Roswell Army Air Field announced it had a ‘flying disc’. Within a day it was a weather balloon, and by the 1990s the Air Force tied it to the secret Project Mogul. The press release, the FBI teletype, the GAO records search and AARO’s 2024 review, quoted directly.
