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title: "Roswell Incident"
year: 1947
country: "United States"
canonical: "https://recap.at/1947/roswell-incident"
slug: "roswell-incident"
recapType: "global_event"
startDate: "1947-01-01"
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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.

## Summary

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.

## Sources

- [The Roswell Incident (1980 book)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Roswell_Incident_(1980_book)) - Wikipedia

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Canonical: https://recap.at/1947/roswell-incident