70 years ago at the Shore, UFOs filled the sky

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70 years ago at the Shore, UFOs filled the sky

http://www.app.com/story/news/history/erik-larsen/2017/08/03/ufo-sightings-were-reported-shore-days-before-roswell-flying-saucer-discovery/523263001/

In the summer of 1947, the nation was in the grip of hysteria over reports of UFO sightings throughout the United States. The reports of "flying discs" or "flying saucers" coincided with the now-famous incident in Roswell, New Mexico, in which the U.S. Army on July 8 announced that it had recovered a "flying saucer" that had crashed on a ranch outside of town.

Seventy years ago this summer, something crashed in southeastern New Mexico that has since become part of American folklore.

Almost everyone knows the story of the farmers who in 1947 recovered pieces from "a flying disc" outside Roswell. That of course was how the Army itself in a news release described the unidentified flying object that appeared to have crash-landed at a ranch there in June or July of that year.

In the 1990s, the U.S. Department of Defense revealed the material came from a high-altitude balloon that was part of Project Mogul — a top secret program in the late 1940s — that used such balloons to listen for Soviet nuclear weapons tests high in the atmosphere. But that, of course, didn't end the conspiracy theories from those who believe — to paraphrase — that the truth is still out there.