Top 10 most famous UFO incidents in history, part-1: ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO CRASH AND RECOVERY, 1947: [topic=3042567]part-2[/topic], [topic=3042571]part-3[/topic], [topic=3042573]part-4[/topic], [topic=3042574]part-5[/topic], [topic=3042576]part-6[/topic], [topic=3042578]part-7[/topic], [topic=3042579]part-8[/topic], [topic=3042581]part-9[/topic], [topic=3042582]part-10[/topic] No single incident did more to put allegedly crashed saucers and little green men into the public consciousness than what took place in July of 1947 some fifty miles north of the New Mexico city of Roswell when an unassuming farmer named Matt Brazell discovered a debris field strewn with tiny metallic strips and wooden sticks near his farm. Having heard about “flying disks” in the papers (the Arnold sighting having made national headlines two month earlier), Matt wondered if he hadn’t stumbled across his very own crashed flying saucer and immediately contacted local military authorities. Curiously, at first they agreed with the farmer’s assessment and declared that a “crashed disk” had been recovered, only to recant hours later and claim the debris was part of a crashed weather balloon all along. That seemed to put an end the story and it was quickly relegated to the dustbin of UFO folklore until the late seventies when the Army Air Force intelligence officer who had been sent to pick the stuff up (which he stuffed into the trunk of his car)—one Jesse Marcel—claimed the material he recovered was extraterrestrial after all, creating a conspiracy theory of epic proportions that refuses to die to this day.