On this day in US history, Air Force officials released an over 230-page report dismissing the claims of an alien spaceship crash in Roswell, New Mexico, on June 24, 1997. Nearly 50 years earlier, in 1947, a rancher named W. W. Brazel found a shiny material scattered over his land that helped spur the idea that Roswell was a hotspot for unidentified flying objects (or UFOs). That, coupled with the military base nearby, testing equipment that left debris on the ground, and looked obscure in the sky, helped push the notion. But the Pentagon would put out a report decades later known as “The Roswell Report Case, Closed,” that detailed that there were no incidents of life being found and that the shrapnel found was from military tests.
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