Today in History
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Today in History |
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July 7, 1947 |
On July 8, 1947 The Roswell Army Air Field issued an unusual press release indicating that on July 7th, the day before, some of its personnel had located and removed a crashed “flying disc” from a local ranch. A second press release corrected “flying disc” to “weather balloon.” One of the great conspiracy theories of the 20th century was born. A government commission convened in reaction to the media uproar and concluded the findings were debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul, which used high altitude weather balloons as listening and surveillance devices.
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