"Award-winning author Candace Fleming sets her gaze on the mystery at Roswell, New Mexico, and the purported UFO crash that set the United States on edge for decades. In 1947, during the early years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mexico, was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of wreckage. Some claimed that a UFO had crashed there, that the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground, and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous 'crash from outer space' has become a fixture in our culture, inspiring a surge of UFO sightings and conspiracy theories, as well as popular films and television shows. But at its heart, it is the story of military scientists, a nation on the brink of the Cold War, and a debris field scattered with mystery. What was it that actually crashed at Roswell? Was it Russian spies? Secret military technology? Or had extraterrestrial ships and bodies really landed? And did the government try to hide what they found?"--Dust jacket flap.
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