Ep.21 Roswell: The Incident That Changed Everything

UFO Chronicles Podcast

Nik Hunter

Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Science

4.6 • 843 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

In July 1947 a mysterious object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico sparking the infamous Roswell Incident. Initially reported as a flying saucer by the U.S. Army the debris of metallic fragments and strange materials was quickly reclassified as a weather balloon, fueling suspicions of a government cover-up. Locals claimed sightings of unusual craft and even alien bodies, though official reports dismissed these as misinformation. Decades later declassified documents tied the crash to Project Mogul, a secret Cold War surveillance program, but conspiracy theories persist linking the event to extraterrestrials and Area 51. We explore the fact's eyewitness accounts and enduring mystery of what really happened in the desert.

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0:00.0	Roswell
0:11.6	The Incident that changed everything
0:15.0	Roswell, New Mexico
0:17.4	It's a name that has become synonymous with UFOs, cover-ups and conspiracy theories.
0:23.6	It appears in films, TV shows, books, documentaries and late-night radio debates.
0:30.6	It's the origin point for countless investigations and speculation.
0:34.6	But behind the hype, behind the layers of pop culture and revision, there's
0:40.3	a real event. Something happened in the desert near Roswell in the summer of 1947, and it
0:47.8	sparked a fire that has yet to go out. What exactly fell on that ranch?
0:58.1	Why did the military change its story within 24 hours?
1:02.4	Why did it take decades for the public to revisit the case?
1:09.0	And why does this single incident still hold such power in the imagination of believers and skeptics alike?
1:10.5	This is brief encounters, and this is episode
1:14.0	21. Roswell, the incident that changed everything. The story begins in early July of 1947.
1:23.9	A rancher named Mack Brazel was checking his livestock. In the remote grasslands of southeastern New Mexico, he managed the foster ranch, about 75 miles
1:34.3	northwest of Roswell.
1:36.3	After a night of heavy storms, Brazil came across something odd, scattered across a large stretch
1:43.3	of pasture. The field was littered with debris,
1:47.0	thin metallic strips, foil-like material, and lightweight beams that seemed to resist damage.
1:55.3	Some of it could bend without breaking. Some of it was described as almost rubbery,
2:03.6	snapping back into shape after being crumpled. There were also reports of strange markings on some of the pieces, symbols that resembled
2:09.4	writing, but didn't match any known language. No fire, no crater, no engines, and no conventional wreckage, just fragments.
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