Google is marking the anniversary of the famed Roswell incident of 1941 with a doodle on the search page that is getting a lot of attention. The doodle is an animated point-and-click game that lets users navigate through the Roswell scene and try to relaunch your flying saucer.
The graphic makes use of many of the headlines from the day.
"RAAF Captures Flying Saucer/ On Ranch In Roswell Region," read the headline of the Daily Record. The article went on to say that the flying saucer "was recovered on a ranch."
The graphic game has a cow, chickens and a barn that the alien walks by during the search.
"The announcement that the RAAF was in possession of one [saucer] came only a few minutes after [an eyewitness] had decided to release the details of what he had seen," read the original Daily Record article.
The last sentence of the Daily Record article, and its open-ended style, launched seven decades of conspiracy theories and stories of a cover-up of an alien crash landing that continues today. recent examples incidents include a woman spotting a UFO over a barn in California, a woman seeing a UFO over a castle in the Netherlands and the memo from the FBI regarding the Roswell UFO becoming the most viewed item in the vault.
This followed the official statement from the military.
"The intelligence office of the 509th Bombardment group at Roswell Army Air Field announced at noon today, that the field has come into possession of a flying saucer," read the statement.
"Alien's observed in the New Mexico desert were actually anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research," according to a report released by the military in the 90s.
Today, Roswell still holds a Roswell UFO Festival over the anniversary weekend of the crash. The event includes panels such as "Paranormal Pop Culture," "New Evidence In the Betty and Barney Hill Abduction" and "Six Indisputable Facts That the Roswell Incident was an Extraterrestrial Event."
There is also an online Roswell UFO Museum where video footage that documents the theories and accounts are available.
The incident also inspired a television show on the WB network about aliens landing in Roswell and coming out of pods decades later, living among humans that ran for three seasons beginning in 1999.
Video from the Roswell UFO Festival.
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