History's Secrets — Season 1, Episode 4: The Real Roswell
Documentary • 45 min • 4 seasons, 27 episodes • ★ 7.5/10
Episode synopsis
On July 8, 1947, the U.S. Army issued a press statement claiming to have recovered a flying saucer on a ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico. But within hours they retracted the statement saying they had only found the remains of a weather balloon. Sixty years later the debate still rages and Roswell has become the UFO capital of the world. Did the military really recover dead aliens and their spaceship, as some people claim?
About History's Secrets
Mysterious events, compelling figures, and great unanswered questions from the past are explored in this National Geographic series.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Hunt for Hitler
- E2The Hunt for the Boston Strangler
- E3The Romanovs
- E5The Secrets Of J. Edgar Hoover
- E6Where's Amelia Earhart?
- E7Howard Hughes Revealed
- E8The Unabomber: Ted Kaczynski
- E9Secrets of the Moon Landing
- E10CIA Secret Experiments
- E11Secret History of the Atomic Bomb
- E12Vanished from Alcatraz
- E13Secret Life of Charles Lindbergh