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Early July is:
Roswell UFO Festival Around July 4, 1947, a UFO (unidentified flying object) allegedly
crashed near Roswell, a farming and ranching community in southeastern
New Mexico. According to some reports, the bodies of four aliens were
found at a site around 30 miles from Roswell. Mack Brazel worked on a
ranch southeast of Corona, New Mexico, where he found strange debris on
July 5. The next day he went to
Roswell to show it to the Chaves County sheriff, who in turn passed the
information along to officials at Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF). An
investigation was begun and a press release about the crash was
released by the RAAF. The headline in the July 8 Roswell Daily Record
read, “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” But the
Army-Air Force changed its story the next day, claiming that the debris
was from a weather balloon.
The “Roswell Incident” has remained a subject of controversy for
years. In September 1994 the Air Force produced a report which asserted
that the recovered object was in fact a spy balloon flown as part of
the then-top-secret Project Mogul. On the 50th anniversary of the event
in 1997 the Air Force issued a report designed to put continuing rumors
about a cover-up to rest. That report claimed the retrieved bodies were
actually crash-test dummies (even though such experiments did not begin
until 1953).
The town of Roswell celebrates its reputation as the UFO capital of
the United States with a week-long festival in early July, which has
been officially designated as “Alien Month.” Activities include a UFO
parade, an alien puppet show, concerts, and special exhibits. The UFO
Museum and Research Center invites UFO experts from around the world to
speak at the festival, which combines traditional FOURTH OF JULY barbecues and fireworks with serious discussion of UFO reports. From Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary |
Quotation of the Day
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Wisdom
Aristotle "[The argument of Alcidamas:]
Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus,
in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not
their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the
Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though
they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave
public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day." from Respectfully Quoted |
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