This incident resulted in the USAF recovering an alien flying saucer and its crew.
There was a subsequent coverup by the Government and the official story was that a weather balloon had crashed.
This did not make sense because there were eyewitness, newspaper reports and photographs that prooved that this indeed was a flying saucer crash.

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So here is a quiz to test your knowledge.

Qu 1.)
What was recovered in Roswell in 1947?
a) Experimental jet aircraft.
b) Weather balloon.
c) Flying saucer and alien bodies.

And the answer is of course C (Flying saucer and alien bodies).