When was the Roswell incident?

Answer 1

The "incident" involved material recovered by the US Army Air Force (later USAF) between July 3 and July 7, 1947, near Roswell, New Mexico.

Details

The Roswell Incident, according to UFO theorists, was the crash of a UFO spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in July, 1947. The US government supposedly recovered the remains of the alien spacecraft, dead bodies of two aliens and one surviving but badly injured alien.

There has never been the slightest shred of real evidence to support this anecdote. After press releases and statements on July 8 and 9, 1947, the incident was all but forgotten until 1978, when a ufologist interviewed USAF major Jesse Marcel about his role in the event. After many other reports and statements throughout the 1980's, the Air Force issued official reports in 1995 and 1997, dismissing claims of an alien encounter and subsequent coverup.

The available proof (records, photos, etc.) makes it very clear that what was actually recovered were the remains of a highly-classified prototype for a spying device, called MOGUL, which was flown with a series of weather balloons and foil radar reflectors.

(Because of popular suspicions regarding secret government operations, many still doubted the legitimacy of the government proof. So it is unlikely that UFO theories about the incident will ever go away.)