Picture of Flying Saucer

It might be piloted by tiny grey men with bulbous heads or covered in mysterious

hieroglyphics.

All of these tropes come, in part, from Roswell, New Mexico.

They sound corny now, but in 1947 it wasn't a joke.

A rancher named Mac Brasel found strange looking debris strewn about his field, and after

looking at the wreckage local military officials confirmed it came from a flying saucer.

Some 80 years later, the Roswell crash is still the most famous UFO event in history,

and it might be the most compelling evidence we have that aliens exist.

This is supernatural, a park-cast original.

I'm your host Ashley Flowers.

Every Wednesday I'll be taking a deep dive into a real unexplained occurrence to try

and figure out the truth.

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This week I'm talking about the Roswell incident, which is the granddaddy of all UFO conspiracy

theories, and with good reason.

Not only did people believe an alien spaceship crashed in New Mexico, they literally saw

little grey men at the Roswell Army airfield, and in the years since the Air Force has admitted

that their official story about Roswell was a cover-up, which means the US government

might know a whole lot more about extraterrestrials than they've ever let on.

I'll talk about all of that in just a bit.

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