Real photograph from Roswell 1947 of the US military trying to convince everybody that a flying saucer is a weather balloon.

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Roswell, New Mexico, United States

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Location: Roswell, New Mexico, United States
Shape: Saucer
Media: Image, Reddit
Reddit: u/MartianMaterial Dec 20, 2022 ↗
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The report describes photographs and negatives from the 1947 Roswell incident, held by the UTA Libraries Special Collections Division as part of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram collection. It states that the object, said to be a weather balloon, was flown to Fort Worth Army Air Field, where reporters saw and photographed it. The post itself gives no witness count, duration, or video details.

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The UTA Libraries Special Collections Division has partnered with researchers Kevin Randle, David Rudiak, Simon Schollum, and Jerry Morelock to document and disseminate photographic assets held by the Libraries related to the Roswell UFO incident of 1947. At the time, the object in question, said to be a weather balloon, was flown to the Fort Worth Army Air Field where reporters saw and photographed the material.

The UTA Libraries currently holds photographs and negatives from the incident (digital versions below) as part of the large Fort Worth Star-Telegram collection that chronicles the history of Fort Worth and West Texas.

https://library.uta.edu/roswell/images

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Roswell incidentCase · 🤖 AI-linked · The July 1947 recovery of debris near Roswell, New Mexico, announced as a "flying disc" and then explained as a weather balloon.Fort WorthPlace · 🤖 AI-linked · The Texas city where the Roswell debris was shown to the press in 1947.Kevin RandlePerson · 🤖 AI-linked · Roswell researcher and author of many books on crash-retrieval claims.Weather balloonTerm · 🤖 AI-linked · A balloon carrying weather instruments, used to explain the Roswell debris.

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