UFO crash at Roswell: the genesis of a modern myth - Benson Saler, Charles Albert Ziegler, Charles B. Moore - Google Books

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In this first book to analyze the so-called Roswell Incident as a cultural phenomenon, anthropologists Saler and Ziegler contend that the story of a 1947 flying saucer crash in the desert near Roswell, New Mexico, is best understood as a modern myth that…