324 - The Roswell Incident

Today's podcast is about one of America's favorite conspiracy theories, The Roswell Incident.  In 1947, debris was recovered from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico that was recovered by personnel from the nearby Army Air Field.  The stuff of conspiracy began when the Army announced it had picked up a "flying disc" before retracting the statement the next day. The debris was then claimed to be that of a weather balloon although it was later reveled to be from a balloon made to monitor Soviet nuclear tests.  The discrepancy in the report let to the incident eventually being linked to recovery of an extra terrestrial space ship or even alien remains. However, these theories didn't crop up until well after the event in the 1970s.  Take a listen this week and see what you think.