Remains of an allegedly "non-human" being are seen on
display during a briefing on unidentified flying objects at
the San Lazaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City on
Tuesday. (REUTERS/Henry Romero)
Remains of an allegedly "non-human" being are seen on
display during a briefing on unidentified flying objects at
the San Lazaro Legislative Palace in Mexico City on
Tuesday. (REUTERS/Henry Romero)
The Pentagon on Thursday announced the launch of a new
website with the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office
(AARO), which will provide the public with declassified
information about UFOs, or what the government calls
unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAPs).
Pentagon spokesman Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder said at a
press briefing that the new website will provide the public
with information including videos and photos associated
with resolved UAP cases as they are declassified and
approved for public release. (FOX NEWS)
The new website can be accessed at aaro.mil
6-25-1997
On this day in history, June 24, 1997, the U.S. Air Force released
a 232-page report titled "The Roswell Report: Case Closed,"
about a mysterious incident near Roswell, New Mexico, that
some believe was a UFO crash-landing on Earth.
The report was the second part of the government’s official
disclosure about what was found in rural New Mexico in the
1940s. Back in 1994, the government published, "The Roswell
Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert."
"The ‘Roswell Incident’ has assumed a central place in American
folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New
Mexico," noted the foreword of the 1997 report, written by
Secretary of the Air Force Sheila A. Widnall (below).
Sheila Marie Evans Widnall
On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in
Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier.
Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to
flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the
dawn of the atomic age caused many Americans to turn their
attention to the skies. The town of Roswell, located near the Pecos
River in southeastern New Mexico, became a magnet for UFO
believers due to the strange events of early July 1947, when Air
Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage of
a “flying disk.” A local newspaper put the story on its front
page, launching Roswell into the spotlight.
Major Jesse Marcel from the Roswell Army Air Field with
debris found 75 miles north west of Roswell, NM, in June
1947. The debris has been identified as that of a radar
target.