num_pages: 272
description: Award-winning author Candace Fleming sets her gaze on the mystery at Roswell New Mexico and the crash from outer space that set the United States on edge for decades. In 1947 during the early years of the Cold War a field in Roswell New Mexico was disturbed by a strange crash and smattering of debris. Some say the bodies of extraterrestrial beings were strewn across the ground that a UFO had crashed there and that the government was covering up the evidence in a massive conspiracy. But what really happened at Roswell? The infamous crash from outer space has become a fixture in our culture inspiring a surge of UFO sightings and conspiracy theories. But at its heart is the story of military scientists a city on the brink of the Cold War and a debris field scattered with mystery. What was it that actually crashed at Roswell? Were alien bodies found? Was it Russian spies? Secret military technology? And did the government try to hide what they found?
language: English
title: Crash from Outer Space: Unraveling the Mystery of Flying Saucers, Alien Beings, and Roswell
publisher: Scholastic Focus