International UFO Museum & Research Center
A UFO museum in Roswell, New Mexico, built in 1992, International UFO Museum & Research Center is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Museum anchoring the 1947 Roswell incident—America’s founding UFO legend. It sits in the archive under UFO museums, UFO history and UFO locations. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 2 documented facts, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. The site is open to visitors.
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Is International UFO Museum & Research Center haunted?
The record holds 1 claim — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed disputed. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
In July 1947 the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release announcing the recovery of a 'flying disc' — and retracted it within a day, reframing the debris as a weather balloon. The retraction is the file's founding document: a statement and its withdrawal, twenty-four hours apart, that produced the most famous UFO incident in history.
The International UFO Museum opened in 1992 in a converted downtown movie theater — the institution Roswell built to hold the incident, forty-five years after the press release. The file's subject is not the crash but the museum: the place where the retraction became an industry.
The archive of the retracted
The museum holds what the file calls the research center — witness statements, debris theories, the documentation of an event whose official record is a corrected press release. The file keeps no ghost stories because Roswell's phenomenon isn't haunting; it's the other thing — the archive's file for a legend manufactured by a corrected sentence.
The weather-balloon explanation and the flying-disc claim sit in the same file because they always have — the museum exists to hold the unreconciled pair, and the town rebuilt its economy on the gap between them.
Why this file matters
Roswell is the archive's most instructive file about how legends are made: not by sightings but by documents — a press release, a retraction, and a forty-five-year pause before anyone built a museum around the difference.
The building that holds the incident is a converted movie theater, which the file finds fitting: the story that became a film got a theater to live in.
The long record
- 1947History
In July 1947 the Roswell Army Air Field announced recovery of a "flying disc," then retracted it within a day; the incident was reframed as a weather balloon in 1947 and as Project Mogul in 1994. The documented date is 1947-07. International UFO Museum & Research Center's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Roswell incident' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
- 1947Ufo Event
Roswell incident
- 1992Built
Ufo Museum constructed
The record of claims
Witness affidavits describe debris of strange material and recovered bodies; the military explanation is a secret balloon array. International UFO Museum & Research Center in Roswell, New Mexico carries the report the way old places do — as part of its identity. Sources disagree about it, which makes it honest folklore: contested, retold, unsettled. Aerial claims date the place to its era — the report is folklore with a flight path.
Physical evidence is absent; the Mogul explanation satisfies official records but not witness testimony.
Documented history
In July 1947 the Roswell Army Air Field announced recovery of a "flying disc," then retracted it within a day; the incident was reframed as a weather balloon in 1947 and as Project Mogul in 1994. The documented date is 1947-07. International UFO Museum & Research Center's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. 'Roswell incident' documents the entry. Documented ground is what separates this file from pure legend — this is part of it.
The museum opened in 1992 in a converted movie theater. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. 'International UFO Museum & Research Center' documents the entry. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context.
Verified historyInternational UFO Museum
Sources on file
- 01Roswell incidentWikipedia · encyclopedia · A4
- 02International UFO Museum & Research CenterInternational UFO Museum · museum · A2
Field notes & open questions
New record from encyclopedia/official-source pass; VERIFY task auto-queued for primary-source corroboration.