My Connection to a Famous UFO Story

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I grew up in Roswell, New Mexico. My mother did too. Mom was only 8 years old in 1947, when the well-known UFO incident happened. She told my siblings and me that she actually saw the unusual aircraft! On that July 6th, she and a few other kids were sitting in a tree in their mutual friend's backyard. They saw something strange fly over their heads. It frightened them, so they ran in the house to tell the adults. They were told to that they had overactive imaginations. But their story was proven true a couple of days later, when the local newspaper and radio were buzzing about the bizarre wreckage that was found on a ranch outside of town. When I was growing up in Roswell in the 60's and 70's, the UFO story was rarely mentioned. But after the movie "Roswell" was released in 1994, followed by numerous documentaries, books, etc, the town became well-known all over the USA and beyond. Roswell now hosts an annual UFO Festival which draws thousands of people from all over the world.