Ramy & Dubose Identify Weather Balloon
Fort Worth Army Air Field 8th July 1947: Brigadier General Roger M Ramey (left), Commanding General of the 8th Airforce, and Colonel Thomas J Dubose, 8th Airforce Chief of Staff, identify metallic fragments found by a farmer near Roswell, New Mexico, as pieces of a weather balloon. This is the basis of the Roswell Incident, the supposed crash of an alien spacecraft.
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Bettmann
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08 July, 1947
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