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Roswell Incident

The alleged recovery of an unidentified object near Roswell, New Mexico sparked decades of UFO speculation and became a cornerstone of alien mythology.

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The Roswell Incident is a 1980 book by Charles Berlitz and William Moore. The book helped to popularize stories of unusual debris recovered in 1947 by personnel of the Roswell Army Air Field.

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