The Strongest Roswell Case Is the Narrowest One: The Debris Trail from Marcel to Wright Field and Battelle

Ask the average person about Roswell and they will probably picture an intact saucer, alien bodies, autopsies, Majestic-12 documents, and a vast conspiracy spanning generations. Most of that elaborate story emerged decades after 1947 through disputed witnesses, anonymous sources, and documents of questionable authenticity. But removing the weakest material does not make Roswell disappear. It leaves a smaller and potentially more defensible mystery: Military personnel recovered unusual debris,...