The True Story of the Roswell UFO Incident [Video]

Ufologists call the Roswell incident the “ultimate cold case file.”

On the night of July 2, 1947, amid a severe lightning storm, ranchers outside of Roswell, N.M., recall hearing what sounded like an explosion. The next day, W.W. “Mack” Brazel discovered debris in a field near his home — unlike any he’d ever seen.

After handing over the wreckage to the United States Air Force, the Roswell Army Airfield issued a press release stating that they’d captured a flying saucer. Word spread around the world but the claims were quickly retracted 24 hours later. The Air Force’s revised statement informed citizens that the wreckage was not from a UFO, but merely remnants of a weather observation balloon that had crashed.

It’s been nearly 80 years since the Roswell incident, and there are countless theories about what was found in New Mexico. Ufologists Don Schmitt and Kevin Randle, who have been trying …