July 2, 1947 Mac Brazel, a rancher near Roswell, New
Mexico discovered some interesting wreckage on his property. He didn’t recognize
the metal it was made of and couldn’t decide what it had been before it crashed.
He contacted military authorities who investigated and removed the wreckage.
The first military reports – later rescinded – referred to an Unidentified
Flying Object. The official story involved a downed weather balloon, which of
course led to wide speculation and claims of a massive government cover-up. It’s
far from the first UFO sighting, in fact, pilot Kenneth Arnold reported seeing
nine blue, glowing objects in V-formation near Mt. Rainier just nine days earlier.
But the Roswell incident really sparked our collective imagination. July second
is World UFO Day. How to celebrate it? I’m reminded of that quote from the end of
The Thing from Another World (1951): “Watch the skies, everywhere! Keep
looking. Keep watching the skies!”
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