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After the original incident of the "flying disc debris" found near Roswell in 1947 was explained the next day as balloon debris by the Army Air Force, what would become the Roswell incident was, we are told, completely forgotten until 1978, when Major Jesse Marcel, intelligence officer at the Roswell Army Air Base, came forward to claim that the debris were not from a balloon, but of something from another world.

But it is not totally true that "Roswell" had totally disappeared between these two moments...

Harold T. Wilkins in "Flying Saucers on the Attack", 1954:

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Close to the place where the first atomic bomb was tested, a rancher at Roswell, New Mexico, was said, in July 1947, to have found a flying saucer. It landed in his ranch, and was inspected by officers of the 509th atomic bomb group of the 8th US Air Force who sent it to a 'higher quarter'.

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Source:

In: "Flying Saucers on the Attack", book by Harold T. Wilkins, Ace Books publishers, USA, pp 66-67, 1954.

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