Sacramento Bee article

The Roswell incident took place on Monday, July 7, 1947, when an airborne
object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Explanations of what
actually occurred are based on both official and unofficial reports.The most
popular theory of what took place is that the object, or UFO, was a spacecraft
containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has
been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen
about the event.

The U.S. government maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was
debris from the crash of an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon
belonging to what was then a classified top secret program named Mogul 
(see below).

MaJ. Jesse Mar­cel displays the Roswell balloon debris

Sandy Kozel

 
Tim Maguire

Sir James Paul McCartney is 71 today. Guinness World Records described McCartney as the "most successful composer and recording artist of all 
time".

Charles Lindbergh was honored with a ticker-tape parade down Broadway in New
York City to celebrate the achievement of his nonstop flight across the Atlantic to 
Paris.. Four million people lined the streets that day to catch a glimpse of the
young aviator.