title: Roswell Revealed: The New Scientific Breakthrough into the Controversial UFO Crash of 1947
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  **Philip L. Rife**
  
  
  **It Didn't Start With Roswell**
  
  
  50 Years of Amazing UFO Crashes, Close Encounters and coverups Writers Club
  Press
  
  
  San Jose New York Lincoln Shanghai
  
  
  Al Rights Reserved © 2001 by Philip L. Rife
  
  
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  ## Chapter 1
  
  
  ### Year Of The UFO
  
  
  
  
  
  It was a banner year for Unidentified Flying Objects. There were hundreds of
  sightings by thousands of people in more than two dozen U.S. states. A number
  of these eyewitnesses reported seeing strange aerial craft which had landed,
  and more than a few individuals claimed to have made contact with the crafts'
  occupants. In addition, there were several reports of crashed UFOs.
  
  
  Theoretical y, these events could have taken place almost any year since 1947,
  when the now-famous Roswel incident is al eged to have occurred. In truth,
  they al took place a half-century before Roswel , in the year 1897.
  
  
  Actual y, some folks out West got a headst