The Roswell Incident refers to the July 1947 recovery of debris near Roswell, New Mexico, initially described by the USAF as a “flying disc” before being re-characterized as a weather balloon. The 1994 Air Force report attributed the debris to Project Mogul, a classified high-altitude surveillance balloon program.
Roswell is foundational to modern UFO lore and crash-retrieval mythology. Debris and alleged non-human bodies are widely rumored to have been transported to wright-patterson-afb and its intelligence units, including what is now nasic.
Donald Schmitt of the International UFO Museum claims 30 “deathbed confessions” about Roswell admissible in a court of law (src-wright-patterson-general-missing-2026-03). Mainstream U.S. government accounts do not endorse the extraterrestrial interpretation.
See also: crash-retrieval-programs, non-human-intelligence.