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In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left
Smithsonian Magazine, 2017. Smithsonian Magazine.
A seventieth-anniversary account (July 2017) of the 1947 sequence (14 June find, 4 July gathering, 7 July to the sheriff, the 8 July headline, the War Department correction), Project Mogul's 657-foot balloon trains, and the story's growth, with Roger Launius of the National Air and Space Museum.
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The 1947 dates and the museum view.
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Smithsonian Magazine (2017). In 1947, A High-Altitude Balloon Crash Landed in Roswell. The Aliens Never Left. Smithsonian Magazine. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/in-1947-high-altitude-balloon-crash-landed-roswell-aliens-never-left-180963917/
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