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1947 to 2022
July 2, 1947: Something crashes 40 miles north of Roswell. July 7, 1947: Press release by intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group about flying saucer crash is brought to Daily Record for publication. July 8, 1947: Daily Record reports flying saucer captured near Roswell. July 9, 1947: Daily Record reports Army determines craft was a weather balloon, not a UFO. July 11, 1947: Crash appears to be yesterday’s news. March 25, 1948: Something crashes in Aztec, New Mexico. 1950: First Hollywood movies feature flying saucers, no longer rockets. 1978: Researchers, including nuclear physicist, author and UFO researcher Stanton Friedman, begin studying the “Roswell Incident.” 1991: International UFO Museum and Research Center opens in Roswell. 1994: Movie “Roswell” is filmed — tourism picks up in Roswell. 1994: Roswell Mayor Tom Jennings issues proclamation for July being UFO Awareness Month. 1994: U.S. Rep. Steve Schiff requests the General Accounting Office to search government records for the truth about Roswell, triggering reaction of Air Force. 1995: Air Force releases report denouncing alleged UFO cover-up, says it was nuclear surveillance balloon with humanoid-shaped dummies. July 1995: UFO Encounter ‘95, the first UFO festival and serious lectures about “Roswell Incident,” takes place in Roswell. January, 1997: International UFO Museum and Research Center moves into historic Plains Theater building after extensive remodeling. July 1997: UFO Encounter ‘97, marking the 50th anniversary of the reported crash, draws near 50,000 tourists in weeklong events, 450 journalists from 301 press organizations and 16 countries with live TV coverage. 1997: Air Force press release says “aliens” found at crash site were crashtest dummies used for parachute tests. 2002: After Sept. 11 attack, still close to 11,000 visitors attend the Roswell UFO Festival. 2013: CIA releases 407 page document with Area 51 location, admitting existence for the first time — no mentioning of alleged Roswell UFO. 2015: The English theoretical physicist, cosmologist and Director of research at the Centre for Theoretical Cosmology at the University of Cambridge Stephen Hawking launches the Breakthrough Listen project, which will scan the nearest million stars for signs of life. 2016: Daily Record joins the UFO Festival with journalistic history-focused panel, “The Roswell Incident.” September 2016: Stephen Hawking releases the short film “Stephen Hawking’s Favorite Places,” in which he states, “As I grow older I am more convinced than ever that we are not alone (in the Universe).” 2017: 70th anniversary of alleged crash brings in more than 20,000 visitors, spending $1.5 million; researchers and scientists and more than 100 journalists from over 10 countries are in Roswell. TV shows, “Expedition Unknown: The Hunt for Extraterrestrials” on Travel Channel and “Carnival Eats: Close Encounters of the Food Kind,” are filmed during festival. 2019: International UFO Museum and Research Center goes hi-tech with interactive apps. April 27, 2020: The Pentagon releases three Navy videos that contain “unidentified aerial phenomena.” These were taken in November 2004 and the other two in January 2015. June 20, 2020: President Donald Trump said that he will not say anything, even to his oldest child, but that “Roswell is very interesting.” June 23, 2020: New York Magazine breaks news with headline, “Senate Intelligence Committee Votes to Allow Public to See UFO Records.” Aug. 4, 2020: Deputy Secretary of Defense David L. Norquist approved the establishment of an Unidentified Aerial PhenomenaTask Force. Aug. 14, 2020: A press release states, “The Department of the Navy, under the cognizance of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, will lead the Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. This includes examinations of incursions that are initially reported as UAP when the observer cannot immediately identify what he or she is observing.” Oct. 21, 2020: Cornell University astronomer Lisa Kaltenegger and Lehigh University’s Joshua Pepper release their paper on identifying more than 1,000 main-sequence stars — similar to the Earth’s sun — that might contain Earth-like planets in their own habitable zones within about 300 lightyears from Earth and prove that these planets would be able to detect Earth’s chemical traces of life. May 14, 2021: A video taken aboard the U.S. Navy ship USS Omaha in July 2019 gets leaked and headlines the news throughout the world. The video is the source of two freeze-frame images of unidentified aerial objects that were previously released and “that a Pentagon spokesperson confirmed was recorded by U.S. Navy personnel.” May 17, 2022: First congressional hearing on UFO sightings in more than 50 years. A new label is used by the U.S. Navy — “UAP” (unidentified aerial phenomenon). Pentagon officials say no evidence suggests that UAPs are non-terrestrial in origin. June 9, 2022: NASA to set up its own independent study team in early fall to examine UAPs.
To be continued in 2023.
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