On this day in history, June 24, 1997, Air Force releases 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed'

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On this day in history, June 24, 1997, Air Force releases 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed'
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The U.S. Air Force released its second public report about the 'Roswell Incident,' a purported UFO crash in rural New Mexico in 1947. The report denied it was aliens.

in those events, we have played a key role in executing the General Accounting Office's tasking to uncover all records regarding that incident," she added.

With the publication of"The Roswell Report: Case Closed," Widnall believed that"we have reached our goal of a complete and open explanation of the events that occurred in the Southwest many years ago." Sheriff George Wilcox had no idea what Brazel had come across, so he in turn reached out to Colonel"Butch" Blanchard, the commander of the Roswell Army Airfield’s 509th Composite Group, which was located near the city.

Ramey was a commander of the 8th Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, nearly 500 miles away from Roswell, said the Smithsonian. "As they tried to ascertain what the materials were, Marcel chose to make a public statement. On July 8, Marcel’s comments ran in the local afternoon newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, alongside a headline stating, 'RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell,'" said the Smithsonian.

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