Roswell UFO incident theme

In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, and a notorious crackpot theory that it was a flying saucer ensued.

6 total · 2 major · 4 minor

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ds94x08 major Quark, Rom, Nog, time traveling to 1940s Earth turns out to be the explanation for the Roswell UFO event
futurama3x19 major We learn that the Planet Express team was responsible for the Roswell UFO incident.
movie: Alien Abduction (2005) minor Jane stumbled on secret documents confirming that the U.S. military recovered a crashed flying saucer and its deceased alien occupants in Roswell in 1947.
movie: Independence Day (1996) minor It was revealed that a crashed alien spaceship with three alien occupants was recovered in Roswell in 1947. And moreover that the ship and its occupants had been kept at Area 51 ever since.
movie: The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) minor The extraterrestrial narrator gave a fanciful account of the Roswell UFO mystery.
movie: What Planet Are You From (2000) minor The Federal Aviation Administration investigator Roland Jones stated that "We don't want another Roswell on our hands." in the wake of an unexplained aerial phenomenon.