Roswell

1. Rancher Mac Brazel finds a field of strange debris: foil-like material, rubber strips, tough paper and balsa-like sticks.
2. On July 8, the 509th Bomb Group issues a press release announcing the capture of a ‘flying disc’. Within 24 hours, the Army says it was a weather balloon.
3. In the 1970s, intelligence officer Maj. Jesse Marcel says the debris was ‘not of this earth’. Dozens of other witnesses come forward with stories of bodies and cover-ups.
4. In 1994 and 1997 the Air Force releases reports identifying the debris as Project Mogul and explaining ‘body’ stories as crash-test dummies from later decades.

Key witnesses: Maj. Jesse Marcel, Mac Brazel, Walter Haut (press officer)
Status: EXPLAINED / DISPUTED