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Berlitz and Moore publish 'The Roswell Incident'

Name: Berlitz and Moore publish 'The Roswell Incident'
Start: 1980
Location: New York, NY

When: 1980
Where: New York, NY
Sources: 2 public sources

Charles Berlitz, co-author with William L. Moore of 'The Roswell Incident' Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore's book The Roswell Incident revived the 1947 debris story as a crashed-saucer cover-up. The Air Force's 1997 report called Roswell essentially a non-story until the late 1970s and cited the book among sources for later claims.

Sources

OfficialThe Roswell Report: Case Closed (Capt. James McAndrew, 1997), notes citing Berlitz and Moore (opens in a new tab)Headquarters U.S. Air Force (copy hosted by Project Gutenberg) / 1997
OtherThe Roswell Incident (Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, Grosset & Dunlap, 1980) (opens in a new tab)Open Library (catalog record) / 1980

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How the story came out

This reports on Roswell debris recovery (8 Jul 1947).

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