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4 Dead in Crash of Small Plane at New Mexico Airport

Apr 2nd 2011 – 6:31PM

ROSWELL, N.M. - Four Gulfstream employees were killed Saturday in a fiery crash of a test twin-engine luxury business aircraft at an airport, authorities said. Officials with Savannah-Ga.-based plane company confirmed that two Gulfstream pilots and two flight-test engineers died in the crash. Their names and other...

Roswell's Legacy: How a Town Became UFO Central (Part 2)

By Lee SpeigelJul 2nd 2010 – 9:28AM
Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Joe Raedle, Getty Images

Editor's Note: For Part 1 of "Roswell's Legacy: How a Town Became UFO Central," click here. (July 2) -- If you like golf, nature reserves and art museums, Roswell, N.M., might be up your alley. If you also happen to like aliens, UFOs and military secrets, you've hit the mother lode this weekend. Roswell -- population...

Roswell's Legacy: How a Town Became UFO Central (Part 1)

By Lee SpeigelJun 30th 2010 – 10:15AM
Roswell Daily Record

Roswell Daily Record

(June 30) -- Sixty-three years ago, something fell out of the sky near Roswell, N.M., launching decades of speculation about the true nature of the object. Was it an extraterrestrial spacecraft that crashed in 1947, killing its alien occupants, or -- as the military originally claimed -- nothing more than a weather...

Nuclear Physicist Describes Vast UFO Cover-Up

By Lee SpeigelJun 7th 2010 – 7:11AM
Courtesy of Stanton Friedman

Courtesy of Stanton Friedman

(June 7) -- "Some UFOs are intelligently controlled extraterrestrial spacecraft, and this is the biggest story of the millennium." These words are not the rantings of a deranged individual looking for attention or a comfortable straitjacket. Stanton Friedman is a maverick of sorts. Employed for 14 years as a nuclear...

Background on roswell

Roswell is a city in and the county seat of Chaves County in the southeastern quarter of the state of New Mexico, United States.

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