The UFO Phenomenon

Major fire damages building at site of Roswell's infamous Hangar 84

By T.K. Randall
December 8, 2025 ·  13 comments

Image: Gray Aliens with Saucer at The UFO Museum, Roswell
Credit: Kimble Young / CC BY-SA 2.0 (adapted) Firefighters rushed to the scene last week when the Roswell Air Center, home to the infamous Hangar 84 where the US military was said to have once stored debris and alien bodies retrieved from the legendary UFO crash in 1947, went up in flames.

The alarm was raised at around 7:55 p.m. on Thursday evening, prompting concerns about possible explosions due to the nearby storage of hazardous materials and oxygen bottles.

Fortunately, nobody was injured, but the cause of the fire remains unclear.

The blaze has since sparked conspiracy theories suggesting that someone had been trying to destroy evidence connected to the infamous 1947 Roswell UFO incident.

While the Roswell Air Center itself didn't exist at the time, Hangar 84 - which is where the debris and bodies were said to have been stored - remains part of the facility to this day.The likelihood of anything significant still being kept there now, however, remains very low.

The original incident began in 1947 when William Brazel - a foreman working on the Foster homestead - discovered a quantity of strange debris spread out approximately 30 miles north of Roswell.

He returned with his family to gather some of it up, but after hearing reports of 'flying discs', he decided to mention it to Sheriff George Wilcox.

Wilcox then spoke to RAAF Major Jesse Marcel who, alongside Captain Sheridan Cavitt, came to examine the debris for himself. After collecting some of the material, Marcel took it to Colonel William Blanchard who, in turn, reported the incident to General Roger Ramey at Fort Worth.

In an official announcement on July 8th, public information officer Walter Haut declared that a "flying disc" had been found in the area. By the time the story had been broadcast on Roswell radio station KSWS, the news had reached the Associated Press and word had begun to spread fast.

The rest, as they say, is history

Source: Mail Online | Comments (13)

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