Roswell incident

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The Roswell incident refers to a 1947 event in New Mexico when the U.S. military recovered debris from a crashed object, initially described as a "flying disc" before being reclassified as a weather balloon.

The incident became central to UFO conspiracy theories, with claims that the government recovered an alien spacecraft and bodies.

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Roswell has become shorthand for alleged government cover-ups of extraterrestrial contact.

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