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The catalyst for the museum was the 1947 Roswell UFO incident, in which a rancher, W. W. "Mack" Brazel, discovered metal debris outside of Roswell, near a giant trench that spanned hundreds of feet. [4] The International UFO Museum and Research Center shares theories about the Roswell incident and other extraterrestrial life. [4]
Dennis’ account featured prominently in Crash at Corona, published in 1992, as well as The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, published in 1994. After much public scrutiny, serious doubts about his story were soon raised. Dennis' account is repeated in Witness to Roswell: Unmasking the 60-Year Cover-Up by Thomas Carey and Donald Schmitt ...
About 14 miles west of Roswell along U.S. Route 380, then 2 miles south on a private ranch road 33°21′06″N 104°51′08″W / 33.351667°N 104.852222°W / 33.351667; -104.852222 ( Diamond
Clovis is a city in and the county seat of Curry County, New Mexico. [7] The population was 38,567 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] Clovis is located in the New Mexico portion of the Llano Estacado , in the eastern part of the state.
Walker Air Force Base is a closed United States Air Force base located three miles (5 km) south of the central business district of Roswell, New Mexico. It was opened in 1941 as an Army Air Corps flying school and was active during World War II and the postwar era as Roswell Army Air Field ( RAAF ).
The Patrick Floyd Garrett House, in Chaves County, New Mexico near Roswell, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988. [1]It is an adobe homestead house from the early 1880s, in what has been termed New Mexico vernacular architecture, with additional significance as the home of Pat Garrett, who killed Billy the Kid in 1881.
By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. [1] [2] On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched a long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico ...
Bullis, Don, New Mexico: A Biographical Dictionary, 1540–1980, 2 vol, (Los Ranchos de Albuquerque: Rio Grande, 2008) 393 pp. ISBN 978-1-890689-17-9; Chavez, Thomas E. An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0-8263-3051-7; DeMark, Judy, ed. Essays in 20th Century New Mexico History (1994)