On this day in 1947, after discovering wreckage in his field after a violent thunderstorm, farmer Mac Brazel of Corona, NM, reported to the Roswell Sherrif that something crashed in his field. The following day the Air Force announced a “Flying Saucer” crashed, but they quickly recanted that statement and began a decades-long cover-up of what actually happened. Dozens of credible eyewitnesses reported seeing several “alien” bodies. 75 years later, it is still very heavily debated on what crashed during the storm near Roswell. Source.