ev-narr-a71e91660693

Roswell incident (Jul 1947)

1947-07Resolved prosaic

Strangeness (S)

0.5

Credibility (P)

1.0

Evidence (EVID)

2.0

Date conf

9.0

Loc conf

0.0

Narrative

AARO recounts the July 1947 Roswell incident where metallic/rubber debris was recovered near Roswell Army Air Field, sparking decades of crash-retrieval conspiracy theories. AARO cites the USAF's 1995 and 1997 reports concluding the debris was from a then-classified Project Mogul balloon, and that 'alien bodies' descriptions were conflations of test dummies used in high-altitude balloon experiments with a 1956 KC-97 accident and 1959 manned balloon mishap. GAO's 1995 audit found no records of UFO recovery.

extracted via: narrative_subagent

Source documents (1)

Click filename to view on Internet Archive (where these are mirrored as public-domain US-government records).

AARO_Historical_Record_Report_Volume_1_2024.pdfAAROvalue 6.8[direct]

Score evidence (6)

Why this event scored the way it did. Every contribution is traceable.

s

disc_shape (+0.5)
outcome=resolved_prosaic (cap S<=3)
post-blend cap S<=3 (resolved_prosaic)

p

docs=1 (+0.5)
single agency (+0.5)

evid

visual only (base 2)