149-528: [REDACTED] Look up roswell in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Roswell may refer to: Roswell incident Roswell, New Mexico , known for the purported 1947 UFO incident (see other uses below) Places in the United States [ edit ] Roswell, Colorado , a former settlement now part of Colorado Springs Roswell, Georgia ,
298-469: A press release stating that the military had recovered a "flying disc" near Roswell. Robert Porter, an RAAF flight engineer, was part of the crew who loaded what he was "told was a flying saucer" onto the flight bound for Fort Worth Army Air Field in Texas. He described the material – packaged in wrapping paper when he received it – as lightweight and not too large to fit inside
447-538: A "flying disk". Hundreds of reports had been made during the Fourth of July weekend, newspapers speculated on a possible Soviet origin, and about $ 3,000 was offered for physical proof. The next day Brazel drove to Roswell, New Mexico, and informed Sheriff George Wilcox of the debris he had found. Wilcox called Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF). RAAF was home to the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force ,
596-625: A 1997 Roswell report, Air Force investigator James McAndrew wrote that "even with the exposure of this obvious fraud, the Aztec story is still revered by UFO theorists. Elements of this story occasionally reemerge and are thought to be the catalyst for other crashed flying saucer stories, including the Roswell Incident." " Hangar 18 " is a non-existent location that many later conspiracy theories allege housed extraterrestrial craft or bodies recovered from Roswell. The idea of alien corpses from
745-709: A 2007 novel by Sonny Whitelaw and Jennifer Fallon Roswell, Little Green Man , a comic book series " Roswell That Ends Well ", an episode of Futurama Roswell, Texas , a serialized, online graphic novel Roswell Records , a record label founded by Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters There is also the Roswell Saves the World book which hosts the Roswell incident as Grays crashing Other [ edit ] Roswell High School (New Mexico) ,
894-600: A UFO conference in Mexico, organized by Jaime Maussan and attended by almost 7,000 people, days afterwards it was revealed that the slides were in fact of a mummified Native American child discovered in 1896 and which had been on display at the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum in Mesa Verde, Colorado, for many decades. In 2020, an Air Force historian revealed a recently declassified report of
1043-693: A UFO. Despite this and a general lack of evidence, many UFO proponents claim that the Roswell debris was in fact derived from an alien craft, and accuse the US government of a cover-up. The conspiracy narrative has become a trope in science fiction literature, film, and television. The town of Roswell promotes itself as a destination for UFO-associated tourism. By 1947, the United States had launched thousands of top-secret Project Mogul balloons carrying devices to listen for Soviet atomic tests. On June 4, researchers at Alamogordo Army Air Field in New Mexico launched
1192-403: A circa-1951 incident in which two Roswell personnel donned poorly fitting radioactive suits, complete with oxygen masks, while retrieving a weather balloon after an atomic test. On one occasion, they encountered a lone woman in the desert, who fainted when she saw them. One of the personnel suggests they could have appeared to someone unaccustomed to then-modern gear, to be alien. Secrecy around
1341-529: A cover-up to prevent mass panic. The Roswell Incident quoted Marcel's later description of the debris as "nothing made on this earth". The book claims that in some photographs, the debris recovered by Marcel had been substituted for the debris from a weather device despite no visible differences in the photographed material. The book's claims of unusual debris were contradicted by the mundane details provided by Captain Sheridan Cavitt, who had gathered
1490-798: A crashed ship being stored in an Air Force morgue at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base was mentioned in Scully's Behind the Flying Saucers , expanded in the 1966 book Incident at Exeter , and became the basis for a 1968 science-fiction novel The Fortec Conspiracy . Fortec was about a fictional cover-up by the Air Force unit charged with reverse-engineering other nations' technical advancements. In 1974, science-fiction author and conspiracy theorist Robert Spencer Carr alleged that alien bodies recovered from
1639-533: A few claimed to have seen debris or aliens. According to Pflock, of the 300-plus individuals reportedly interviewed for UFO Crash at Roswell (1991), only 23 could be "reasonably thought to have seen physical evidence, debris". Of these, only seven asserted anything suggestive of otherworldly origins for the debris. The book claimed that General Arthur Exon had been aware of debris and bodies, but Exon disputed his depiction. Glenn Dennis's claims of an alien autopsy and Grady Barnett's "alien body" accounts appeared in
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#17327647838501788-536: A glass coffin. The Day After Roswell contains many factual errors and inconsistencies. For example, Corso says the 1947 debris was "shipped to Fort Bliss , Texas, headquarters of the 8th Army Air Force". Other Roswell books place the 8th Army Air Force headquarters 500 miles away at its actual location, Fort Worth Army Air Field. Corso further claimed that he helped oversee a project to reverse engineer recovered crash debris. Other ufologists expressed doubts about Corso's book. Schmitt openly questioned if Corso
1937-454: A government coverup to prevent public panic – these elements appeared in later versions of the Roswell myth. In retellings, the mundane debris reported at the actual crash site was replaced with the Aztec hoax's fantastical alloys. By the time Roswell returned to media attention, grey aliens had become a part of American culture through the Barney and Betty Hill incident . In
2086-406: A long train of these balloons; they lost contact with the balloons and balloon-borne equipment within 17 miles (27 km) of W.W. "Mac" Brazel's ranch near Corona, New Mexico where a balloon subsequently crashed. Later that month, Brazel discovered tinfoil, rubber, tape, and thin wooden beams scattered across several acres of his ranch. With no phone or radio, Brazel was initially unaware of
2235-618: A new band room. This increased the school to a 1,900 student official capacity with the state. The addition also reduced some of the need for portable classrooms, but portable units were still used after the expansion to handle Roswell's enrollment (2400 students as of 2007). Construction officially began on February 5, 2007. The addition was paid for by a one- cent special-purpose local-option sales tax (SPLOST). Additional improvements to RHS for additional safety and security features, technology and curriculum equipment enhancements, and athletic facilities upgrades were to be implemented as part of
2384-425: A new campus. That facility opened in the fall of 1954 and allowed the high school (grades 8–12) to physically separate from the elementary school (grades 1–7). Roswell High's second campus was designed by the architecture firm Stevens & Wilkinson, which innovated school designs and used a "finger plan" to improve functionality of the school. It had a capacity of 400 students and had facilities for industrial arts,
2533-464: A new crash site 35 miles north of Roswell, based on statements from Jim Ragsdale and Frank Kaufman. The book hid Kaufman's identity behind the pseudonym "Steve MacKenzie", but Kaufman appeared in the 1995 British television documentary The Roswell Incident using his real name. Kaufman claimed he monitored a UFO's path on radar and recovered debris from a crashed spaceship similar in shape to an F-117 stealth fighter . Kaufmann's statements did not match
2682-399: A probable artifact of the government's investigation into Roswell. The purported cameraman Barnett had died in 1967 without ever serving in the military, and visual effects expert Stan Winston told newspapers that Alien Autopsy had misrepresented his conclusion that Santilli's footage was an obvious fake. In a 2006 documentary, Santilli admitted that the footage was fabricated, filmed on
2831-461: A reliable witness, considering that he had seemingly waited over 40 years before he started recounting a series of unconnected events. Such events, Dunning argues, were then arbitrarily joined to form what has become the most popular narrative of the alleged alien crash. Prominent UFO researchers, including Pflock and Randle, have become convinced that no bodies were recovered from the Roswell crash. A proliferation of competing Roswell accounts led to
2980-530: A schism among ufologists in the early 1990s. The two leading UFO societies disagreed on the scenarios presented by Randle–Schmitt and Friedman–Berliner. One issue was the location of Barnett's account. A 1992 UFO conference attempted to achieve a consensus among the various scenarios portrayed in Crash at Corona and UFO Crash at Roswell . The 1994 publication of The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell addressed
3129-725: A school in Roswell, New Mexico Roswell High School (Georgia) , a school in the city of Roswell, Georgia Roswell International Air Center , an airport in Roswell, New Mexico Roswell springsnail , a species of freshwater snails Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center , a cancer hospital in Buffalo, New York Roswell Recreation and Parks , a municipal department in Roswell, Georgia See also [ edit ] [REDACTED] Search for "Roswell" on Misplaced Pages. All pages with titles containing Roswell All pages with titles beginning with Roswell Roswell High School (disambiguation) Topics referred to by
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#17327647838503278-450: A set built in a London living room. Over twenty million viewers watched the purported autopsy. Fox aired the program immediately before and implicitly connected to the fictional X-Files , which later parodied the film. Alien Autopsy established a template for future pseudo-documentaries built on questioning a presumed government cover-up. Though thoroughly debunked, core UFO believers, many of whom still accepted earlier hoaxes like
3427-516: A shop, music halls, science labs, an art room, an indoor gymnasium, athletic fields, a football stadium, and a track. The School started getting crowded in the early 70s. This forced Fulton county to establish Crestwood High School to relieve it. The School also relieved similar overcrowding at North Springs Charter School of Arts and Sciences . The primary school remained in the Mimosa Boulevard building as Roswell Elementary. As of 2007,
3576-553: A stadium for football and soccer, a lacrosse field, an additional practice field, a dome style gymnasium, a cross country trail, and lighted tennis courts for athletics. In 2008 the Roswell gymnasium was named one of the top high school gyms in the nation. Cited were the domed rotunda, the hanging four sided scoreboard, and locker room facilities. On February 2, 2007, Roswell High had a groundbreaking ceremony for an expansion project. The 23,851-square-foot (2,215.8 m ) expansion added ten new classrooms, including science labs and
3725-642: A strong rivalry with Centennial High School , the city's other public high school, in which the two teams play for the Roswell Cup in football, the series starting in 2000. In soccer, Centennial is the bigger rival than Milton. Roswell Football holds a 9–2 record over Centennial. On the soccer pitch , Roswell girls have a 3–3 record with the Knights since 2004, while the boys hold a 1–5 record during that time period. Other significant rivals include Chattahoochee , Lassiter , and Alpharetta . Blessed Trinity
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4023-720: A weekly news show, the Morning Buzz , which airs at the beginning of the day. The Broadcast and Video department supports the student-run radio station WRHS the Hive, the film club, and the yearly School House Rock concert. The Rifle Team is jointly run by the Roswell High School JROTC program and the Athletics Department, and represents the school in the Olympic sport of riflery . The team won
4172-513: A young adults book series written by Melinda Metz Roswell (TV series) , a 1999 TV series about a group of aliens Roswell, New Mexico (TV series) , a 2019 TV series about a group of aliens Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths and Legends , an (1999-2000) animated series by BKN Roswell (film) , a 1994 television film about the Roswell UFO incident, sometimes called Roswell: The UFO Cover-up Stargate SG-1: Roswell ,
4321-570: Is gymnastics , which has won seven state championships (1997, 2000–2003, 2005, 2007). In 1970–71 Roswell completed a three-peat in the GHSA , winning a state title (including a back-to-back campaign in baseball) in baseball, basketball, and football within 12 months of each other. In total the Roswell Hornets have won 19 team state championship titles in the school's 23 sports. Since its inception, Roswell's traditional rival has been Milton ,
4470-417: Is Roswell's closest rival as the two are less than a mile apart; it is also the newest rival. The two schools started an annual series in soccer in 2007. They have met three times in soccer, with the boys' record being tied 1–1–1 and the girls' record being 0–1–2 for Roswell. For the 2005–2006 school year, Roswell's overall athletic program finished 25th in the state's Director's Cup standings, which measures
4619-599: Is currently on its third campus, which opened in 1990. The current building is the oldest in-use high school building in north Fulton. Roswell is a member of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA) and Region 4-AAAAAAA for athletic competition, as of the 2016–2017 academic year. The school's mascot is the Hornet , and the school colors are green, white and black. Roswell offers 16 different sports, comprising 23 varsity level teams. Eight of
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4768-539: Is designed to teach students about the television industry. Using a hands-on method, students learn about all aspects of television from pre-production to production to post-production. The facility is made up of a working television studio, a large control room, six edit rooms (each equipped with both linear and non-linear editing systems), a radio station, and a normal classroom. Students in the program learn to produce everything from commercials and PSAs to dramas, news shows, and sporting events. The advanced classes produce
4917-402: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Roswell incident The Roswell incident is a conspiracy theory which alleges that the 1947 United States Army Air Forces balloon debris recovered near Roswell, New Mexico was actually a crashed extraterrestrial spacecraft. Operated from the nearby Alamogordo Army Air Field and part of
5066-409: Is keep my mouth shut. And General Ramey is the one who discussed – told the newspapers, I mean the newsman, what it was, and to forget about it. It is nothing more than a weather observation balloon. Of course, we both knew differently. Ufologists interviewed Major Marcel's son, Jesse A. Marcel Jr. M.D., who said that when he was 10 years old, his father had shown him flying saucer debris recovered from
5215-533: Is made up of Broadcast and Video Production, Cosmetology, Family and Consumer Sciences, Diversified Technology, Pre-Engineering, Business Education, and JROTC. Through this department, students may take three consecutive years of one of the branches to obtain a Career Technology High School Diploma in place of a College Prep Diploma. Courses cover diverse topics such as culinary arts , business, computers, interior design, and introduction to education and early childhood care. The Broadcast and Video Production department
5364-410: Is meant to further music education in the state. Roswell High School offers students a variety of options to get involved in the school. Roswell sponsors sports teams in fifteen different sports as well as several club sports. Students can also participate in service clubs, academic clubs, and general interests clubs for a variety of tastes and preferences. The Roswell High mascot is the Hornet , and
5513-486: Is such a program for boys. Swimming & diving is only varsity for both genders, while gymnastics is offered at the varsity level for girls. Roswell offers two co-ed sports, competition cheerleading and riflery; both are solely varsity teams. Every fall students are encouraged to wear their class colors on football game day Fridays to show their school spirit. The days of Homecoming Week are themed, and students dress up to win spirit points for their class, culminating in
5662-588: Is the current head football coach at RHS. Roswell's gymnastics program has won a total of seven state championships since 1997, including four straight from 2000 to 2003. Roswell's seven state titles is second in the sports history behind only Lakeside, Dekalb's nine. The 2006 team finished third in the state, and in 2007 Roswell won their seventh state championship in the sport on April 27 at Westminster , defeating archrival Milton by only 1.55 points despite having no gymnasts winning an individual championship. The 2007 team, however, placed at least one gymnast in
5811-656: The National Enquirer , and the tabloid brought large-scale attention to the Marcel story the following February. Marcel described a foil that could be crumpled but would uncrumple when released. On September 20, 1980, the TV series In Search of... , hosted by Star Trek actor Leonard Nimoy , aired an interview where Marcel described his participation in the 1947 press conference: They wanted some comments from me, but I wasn't at liberty to do that. So, all I could do
5960-607: The Bermuda Triangle and had collaborated with Moore to write about the Philadelphia Experiment . Crediting Friedman only as an investigator, Moore and Berlitz co-wrote the 1980 book The Roswell Incident . It popularized Marcel's account and added the claimed discovery of alien bodies, found approximately 150 miles west of the original debris site on the Plains of San Agustin . Marcel never mentioned
6109-604: The Great Depression , the city of Roswell was annexed into Fulton County from Cobb County as part of its 1932 combination with Milton County and Campbell County . Roswell students in grades ten and eleven were then sent to Milton High School in Alpharetta or North Fulton High School in Atlanta to finish their secondary education (which ended upon completion of grade 11). In 1949, the Mimosa Boulevard building
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6258-595: The Twin Falls saucer hoax . Just days after stories of the Roswell "flying disc", a widely reported crashed disc from Twin Falls, Idaho, was found to be a hoax created by four teenagers using parts from a jukebox . Nevertheless, belief in UFO cover-ups by the US government became widespread in this period. Hoaxes, legends, and stories of crashed spaceships and alien bodies in New Mexico emerged that later formed elements of
6407-683: The United States Department of Education . It was also designated a Georgia School of Excellence in 1996. 26 Advanced Placement (AP) classes are offered, and SAT as well as ACT scores regularly exceed the national and state average. For the 2005–2006 school year, Roswell's average SAT score was 1663 with the new SAT scoring system, which ranked Roswell third in the Fulton County School System and sixth in Metro Atlanta . The Georgia state average
6556-549: The cotton mill that would eventually be the city's economic backbone for much of its early history. The immediate predecessor to Roswell High School was the Roswell Public School on Mimosa Boulevard, which housed grades 1–10 and opened in the 1892 after the Georgia General Assembly passed Act No. 51 on December 20, 1892, allowing the city to elect a school board and levy taxes for support of
6705-429: The "weather balloon explanation for the material was a cover story to divert the attention of the press." In 1992, Stanton Friedman released Crash at Corona , co-authored with Don Berliner. The book introduced new "witnesses" and added to the narrative by doubling the number of flying saucers to two, and the number of aliens to eight – two of which were said to have survived and been taken into custody by
6854-487: The 1947 debris recovery was due to Cold War military programs rather than aliens. Contrary to evidence, UFO believers maintain that a spacecraft crashed near Roswell, and "Roswell" remains synonymous with UFOs. B. D. Gildenberg has called Roswell "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim". Some accounts are likely distorted memories of recoveries of servicemen in plane crashes, or parachute test dummies , as suggested by
7003-497: The 1956 State Championship game, which Roswell lost to Monticello. He stayed at the school until 1960, when he left for Virginia . Roswell's first and so far only undefeated season was in 1968, when sophomore quarterback Jeff Bower led the Hornets to a 13–0 season and the football team's first State Championship. It was the most wins for a season in school history until 2006, when that state championship team went 13–1–1, tying
7152-405: The 1968 team in wins. Two years later, in 1970, Roswell won a state title with a 12–2 record with Jeff Bower again leading the team. He also won state championships in baseball in 1970 and 1971 and basketball in 1971. Bower would go on to a long career as a football coach, most notably as the head coach of Southern Miss from 1990 to 2007. Roswell's coach with the best record is Ray Manus, who
7301-418: The 1980 book as "version 1" of the Roswell myth. Berlitz and Moore's narrative was the dominant version of the Roswell conspiracy during the 1980s. The book argues that an extraterrestrial craft was flying over the New Mexico desert to observe nuclear weapons activity when a lightning strike killed the alien crew. It alleges that, after recovering the crashed alien technology, the US government engaged in
7450-423: The 1980s. Roswell conspiracy proponents turned on Moore, but not the broader conspiracy theory. The Majestic-12 materials have been heavily scrutinized and discredited. The various purported memos existed only as copies of photographs of documents. Carl Sagan criticized the complete lack of provenance of documents "miraculously dropped on a doorstep like something out of a fairy story, perhaps ' The Elves and
7599-507: The 2006 and 2007 seasons, as the head coach for the 2008 season. Barker was the tenth head coach of the Roswell Hornets and served in that position for the 2009 and 2010 seasons before resigning. Leo Barker's first season at Roswell, 2008, ended with a 5–5 record and the Hornets just missing the playoffs. In his second season the Hornets rebounded and had a 9–1 regular season record, finishing second in Region 6-AAAAA behind Lassiter who defeated
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#17327647838507748-713: The 2007 season ranked No. 1 in Class AAAAA and nationally ranked by three publications, including a No. 8 ranking by Rivals.com. The Hornets finished 2007 with a 10–3 record. Of the three losses Walton made the state semi-finals and Lowndes became state champions. The Hornets finished the season ranked No. 6 in the state by the AJC and No. 5 by the AP. Eight members of the 2007 football team received collegiate scholarships, and six of those signees will attend Division I Football Bowl Subdivision schools. Coach Tim McFarlin resigned as
7897-495: The Air Base with questions about body preservation and inquiries about small or hermetically sealed caskets; he further claimed that a local nurse told him she had witnessed an "alien autopsy". Glenn Dennis has been called the "star witness" of the Roswell incident. On September 20, 1989, an episode of Unsolved Mysteries included the second-hand stories of alien bodies captured by the army and transported to Texas. The episode
8046-464: The Air Force in their 1997 report. Pflock argues that proponents of the crashed-saucer explanation tend to overlook contradictions and absurdities, compiling supporting elements without adequate scrutiny. Kal Korff attributes the poor research standards to financial incentives, "Let's not pull any punches here: The Roswell UFO myth has been very good business for UFO groups, publishers, for Hollywood,
8195-544: The Air Force's procedures for retrieving parachute test dummies in insulation bags, designed to shield temperature-sensitive equipment in the desert. Pseudo-documentaries, most notably Alien Autopsy: Fact or Fiction , have taken a major role in shaping popular opinion of Roswell. In 1995, British entrepreneur Ray Santilli claimed to have footage of an alien autopsy filmed after the 1947 Roswell crash, purchased from an elderly Army Air Force cameraman. Alien Autopsy centers around Santilli's hoaxed footage, which it presents as
8344-458: The Aztec crash were stored in "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson. Carr claimed that his sources had witnessed the alien autopsy, another idea later incorporated into the Roswell narrative. The Air Force explained that no "Hangar 18" existed at the base, noting a similarity between Carr's story and the fictional Fortec Conspiracy . The 1980 film Hangar 18 , which dramatized Carr's claims, was described as "a modern-day dramatization" of Roswell by
8493-409: The Aztec crash, weighed the autopsy footage as additional evidence strengthening the connection between Roswell and extraterrestrials. In 1997, retired army intelligence officer Philip J. Corso released The Day After Roswell . Corso's book combined many existing and conflicting conspiracies with his own claims. Corso alleged that he was shown a purportedly nonhuman body suspended in liquid inside
8642-563: The Barnett problem by simply ignoring the Barnett story. It proposed a new location for the alien craft recovery and a different group of archaeologists. In 1991, Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt published UFO Crash at Roswell . It sold 160,000 copies and served as the basis for the 1994 television film Roswell . Randle and Schmitt added testimony from 100 new witnesses. Though hundreds of people were interviewed by various researchers, only
8791-610: The Friday class color day and pep rally. On Wednesday or Thursday night of Homecoming Week, students decorate the halls of the school by class to reflect the theme of the dance. Each hall is judged, with the winning class receiving spirit points. On game days, the Roswell Marching Band plays the school's fight song as they march through the halls. Roswell's fight song is a version of the " Washington and Lee Swing ." Seniors dress up in camouflage every Friday for school and for
8940-597: The Georgia All-State Chorus and the Governor's Honors Program . Ensembles include the Chamber Singers, Vocal Jazz, Advanced Women's, and Advanced Men's Choirs. The Roswell High School band department contains the marching band, wind ensemble, symphonic band, pep band, jazz band, and percussion ensemble. The marching band performs for all varsity football games and has competitions throughout
9089-524: The Hornets 45–24. The Hornets made it to the second round of the playoffs, falling to the No. 1 state ranked Grayson High School 24–14, giving Roswell a 10–2 record for 2009. Justin Sanderson, the assistant head coach under Barker, was promoted to head coach for the 2011 season. After compiling a 3–17 record in 2 seasons, Sanderson was replaced after the 2012 season with John Ford. As of the 2014 season, Ford
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#17327647838509238-477: The Hornets recaptured a state title for the first time in 36 years. The team finished the regular season 9–1 and the No. 2 seed in the playoffs from Region 6-AAAAA. Roswell continued to win in the state playoffs, including a 10–9 win over defending State Runner-up Brookwood High School , and won the right to play for a State Championship by defeating Tift County in the Georgia Dome state semi-finals. Roswell
9387-532: The Mogul team as ways to gather meteorological data, offering a plausible explanation for any unusual aspects of the Roswell debris. The Air Force later described the weather balloon story as "an attempt to deflect attention from the top secret Mogul project." The 1947 debris retrieval remained relatively obscure for three decades. Reporting ceased soon after the government provided a mundane explanation, and broader reporting on flying saucers declined rapidly after
9536-692: The Music Educator's National Conference in Savannah, Georgia . The Singing Hornets have performed concerts at Notre Dame, St. Peter's Basilica , Carnegie Hall , and Disney World . They have performed with professional orchestras, including the Atlanta Symphony Youth Orchestra and Orchestra Atlanta. Each year, the Roswell Choral Music Program receives invitations for students to participate in
9685-606: The New Mexico Desert supported this with extensive documentation that narrowed the cause of the debris to a specific Mogul balloon train launched on June 4, 1947, and lost near the Roswell debris field. Within the UFO community, the Air Force reports were not accepted, and ufologists noted that the GAO probe found no Roswell documents at the CIA and no information about the alleged Majestic 12 group . Contemporary polls found that
9834-491: The Region 6 championship six straight years between 1996 and 2001. The team finished second in the state in 2000 finishing with a score of 1142. State champion East Coweta High School finished with a score of 1150. Roswell High School offers fine arts opportunities in art, band, chorus, drama, and orchestra. The groups meet throughout the year as elective classes and extracurricular activities, and hold many events. These include performances at football games, murals painted in
9983-599: The Roswell Hornet teams have won state championships, totaling 20 overall. The most championships won by a single team is seven, accomplished by the girls' gymnastics program. Roswell High School first opened in 1949, and is the second oldest high school in Fulton County north of the Chattahoochee River . Like the city of Roswell, the school bears the name of Roswell King . King founded
10132-460: The Roswell crash site, including, "a small beam with purple-hued hieroglyphics on it". However, the symbols described as alien hieroglyphics matched the symbols on the adhesive tape that Project Mogul sourced from a New York toy manufacturer. To publish his research, Friedman collaborated with childhood friend and author William "Bill" Moore , who reached out to established paranormal author Charles Berlitz . Berlitz had previously written about
10281-737: The Roswell legend, the bodies were ejected from the craft shortly before it exploded over the ranch. The propulsion unit is destroyed and the government concludes the ship was a "short range reconnaissance craft". The following week, the bodies are recovered some miles away, decomposing from exposure and scavengers. The initial claims of recovered alien bodies came from the secondhand accounts of "Barney" Barnett and "Pappy" Henderson after their deaths. On August 5, 1989, Friedman interviewed former mortician Glenn Dennis. Dennis provided an account of extraterrestrial corpses endorsed by prominent Roswell ufologists Don Berliner, Friedman, Randle, and Schmitt. Dennis claimed to have received "four or five calls" from
10430-496: The Roswell myth. In 1947, many Americans attributed flying saucers to unknown military aircraft. In the decades between the initial debris recovery and the emergence of Roswell theories, flying saucers became synonymous with alien spacecraft . After the assassination of John F. Kennedy and the Watergate scandal , trust in the US government declined and acceptance of conspiracy theories became widespread. UFO believers accused
10579-509: The Shoemaker '." Researchers noted the idiosyncratic date format not found in government documents from the time they were purported to originate, but widely used in Moore's personal notes. Some signatures appear to be photocopied from other documents. For example, a signature from President Harry Truman is identical to one from an October 1, 1947 letter to Vannevar Bush. In this variant of
10728-448: The UFO community. The earliest known reference to "MJ Twelve" comes from a 1981 document used in disinformation targeting Paul Bennewitz . In 1982, Bob Pratt worked with Doty and Moore on The Aquarius Project , an unpublished science fiction manuscript about the purported organization. Moore had initially planned to do a nonfiction book but lacked evidence. During a phone call about the manuscript, Moore explained to Pratt that his goal
10877-522: The addition of class AAAAA, although Roswell's region opponents have varied. Prior to joining AAAAA, Roswell was in Region 6-AAAA for 12 years from 1988 until 1999. The current members of Region 6 include county rivals Alpharetta , Centennial , and Milton . Teams from neighboring Cobb are Campbell , Kell , Lassiter , Pope , Walton , and Wheeler . Region realignment for the 2010–2011 school year kept Roswell in Region 6, along with Alpharetta, Centennial, and Milton. North Fulton school Northview joined
11026-536: The alien craft to bury in the desert. The Air Force provided official responses to Roswell conspiracy theories during the mid-1990s under pressure from New Mexico congressman Steven Schiff and the General Accounting Office (GAO). The initial 1994 USAF report admitted that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story for Project Mogul , a military surveillance program. Published the following year, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in
11175-576: The area of the crash near Aztec". Mac Brazel died in 1963 before interest in the Roswell debris was revived. Berlitz and Moore interviewed his surviving adult children, William Brazel Jr. and Bessie Brazel Schreiber. Brazel Jr. described how the military arrested his father and "swore him to secrecy". However, during the time that Mac Brazel was alleged to have been in military custody, multiple people reported seeing him in Roswell, and he provided an interview to local radio station KGFL . Schreiber, who had gathered debris material with her father when she
11324-517: The autopsy. Presented with evidence that a Naomi Self or Naomi Maria Selff had never worked as a military nurse in 1947, Dennis admitted to fabricating her name. He claimed the nurse's actual name was Naomi Sipes. When no records were found for a Naomi Sipes, Dennis admitted to fabricating that name as well. UFO researcher Karl Pflock observed that Dennis's story "sounds like a B-grade thriller conceived by Oliver Stone ." Scientific skeptic author Brian Dunning said that Dennis cannot be regarded as
11473-517: The book. However, the dates and locations of Barnett's account in The Roswell Incident were changed without explanation. Brazel was described as leading the army to a second crash site on the ranch, where they were supposedly "horrified to find civilians [including Barnett] there already." Also in 1991, retired US Air Force (USAF) Brigadier General Thomas DuBose , who had posed with debris for press photographs in 1947, acknowledged
11622-707: The brick elementary building is part of an expanded structure still owned by the Fulton County School System, and it housed the Crossroads Second Chance North Alternative School until 2013 and still serves as the Teaching Museum North . Roswell High remained at the Alpharetta Highway campus until the fall of 1990 when the current campus on King Road was opened. The current campus is the third that Roswell High School has occupied. It opened in
11771-578: The carpool dropoff to the main entrance. Roswell High School also added a new exterior with a stone face and large front-facing windows. Small interior changes included new bathroom fixtures and tile. RHS is a part of the Fulton County School System and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools and the Georgia Department of Education . Roswell was named a National Blue Ribbon School in 1997–1998 by
11920-564: The country. The small number of subsequent news stories offered mundane and prosaic accounts of the crash. On July 9, the Roswell Daily Record highlighted that no engine or metal parts had been found in the wreckage. Brazel told the Record that the debris consisted of rubber strips, "tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks." Brazel said he paid little attention to it but returned later with his wife and daughter to gather up some of
12069-711: The debris. Despite later claims that he was forced to repeat a cover story, Brazel told newspaper reporters, "I am sure that what I found was not any weather observation balloon." When interviewed in Fort-Worth, Texas, Jesse Marcel described the wreckage as "parts of the weather device" composed of "tinfoil and broken wooden beams". Some portion of the material was flown from Texas to Wright Field in Ohio, where Colonel Marcellus Duffy identified it as balloon equipment. Duffy had previous experience with Project Mogul and contacted Mogul's project officer Albert Trakowski to discuss
12218-424: The debris. Unable to disclose details about the project, Duffy identified it as "meteorological equipment". The 1947 official account omitted any connection to Cold War military programs. On July 10, military personnel at Alamogordo gave a demonstration to the press. Four officers provided a false account of mundane weather balloon usage throughout the previous year. They demonstrated balloon configurations used by
12367-406: The debris. Of these, five claimed to have handled it. Some elements of the witness accounts – small alien bodies, indestructible metals, hieroglyphic writing – matched other crashed saucer legends more than the 1947 reports from Roswell. Berlitz and Moore claimed Scully's long-discredited crashed saucer hoax to be an account of the Roswell incident that mistakenly "placed
12516-486: The disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Media interest in the case dissipated soon after a press conference where General Roger Ramey, his chief of staff Colonel Thomas DuBose , and weather officer Irving Newton identified the material as pieces of a weather balloon. Newton told reporters that similar radar targets were used at about 80 weather stations across
12665-441: The early 1980s. All individuals who received the fake documents were connected to Bill Moore. After the publication of The Roswell Incident , Richard Doty and other individuals presenting themselves as Air Force Intelligence Officers approached Moore. They used the unfulfilled promise of hard evidence of extraterrestrial retrievals to recruit Moore, who kept notes on other ufologists and intentionally spread misinformation within
12814-485: The early 1990s, UFO researchers such as Friedman, Moore, and the team of Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt interviewed many people who claimed to have had a connection with the events at Roswell in 1947, generating competing and conflicting accounts. The first Roswell conspiracy book, released in October 1980, was The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and Bill Moore . Anthropologist Charles Ziegler described
12963-503: The entire city of Roswell west of Georgia State Route 400 and the city of Mountain Park , as well as small portions of Alpharetta and Milton . Roswell High School neighbors both Fellowship Christian School and Blessed Trinity Catholic High School . It is also the second oldest of Fulton County's schools in the northern portion of the county , opening between Milton High School (1921), and Chattahoochee High School (1991). Roswell
13112-524: The fall of 1990 on King Road, just off of Highway 92 , with an enrollment of nearly 2,000 students. It is the oldest high school building in North Fulton. The new campus was expanded with a football stadium and softball field added in 1994 and an auditorium in 1995, paid for by the RHS Foundation. The campus includes science, computer, video, and cosmetology labs; baseball and softball fields,
13261-678: The fall, as well as parade appearances. The marching band competes in Class AAA and in 2008 placed third overall in the Georgia Invitational Band Championship. In 2009 the wind ensemble, which was one of only three selected, took part in the Honor Bands of Georgia program hosted at Columbus State University in Columbus, Georgia . The program is an educational opportunity for the bands participating and
13410-516: The film's director James L. Conway , and as "nascent Roswell mythology" by folklorist Thomas Bullard. Decades later, Carr's son recalled that he had often "mortified my mother and me by spinning preposterous stories in front of strangers... [tales of] befriending a giant alligator in the Florida swamps, and sharing complex philosophical ideas with porpoises in the Gulf of Mexico." Interest in Roswell
13559-531: The first anonymous package containing photographs of Majestic-12 documents just after a phone call from Moore. The anonymously-delivered documents detailed the creation of a likely fictitious Majestic 12 group formed to handle Roswell debris. At a 1989 Mutual UFO Network conference, Moore confessed that he had intentionally fed fake evidence of extraterrestrials to UFO researchers, including Bennewitz. Doty later said that he gave fabricated information to UFO researchers while working at Kirtland Air Force Base in
13708-553: The first round, and then beat their cross-town rival and the defending state champion, Centennial. They would then beat Walton at home, which led to a rematch of the previous years semi-final match up against Lambert in the State Championship. In Ray Manus Stadium, with over 5,000 fans in attendance, Roswell captured its first Boys' Lacrosse State Championship, defeating the Lambert Longhorns 6–5. They finished
13857-480: The flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County . The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored
14006-512: The football games. The senior class of 2010 brought the "Flour Toss" tradition to Roswell. At every kickoff of the Friday football games, students anticipate the kick, each holding fistfuls of white flour. As soon as the player kicks the ball, hands go up in the air, releasing the flour, creating a cloud of white to welcome the opposing team. Roswell's football team has won three State Championships (1968, 1970, and 2006), three State Runners-up (1956, 2015, and 2016), and ten Region Championships,
14155-540: The government of a "Cosmic Watergate". The 1947 incident was reinterpreted to fit the public's increasingly conspiratorial outlook. The Aztec, New Mexico crashed saucer hoax in 1948 introduced stories of recovered alien bodies that later became associated with Roswell. It achieved broad exposure when the con artists behind it convinced Variety columnist Frank Scully to cover their fictitious crash. The hoax narrative included small grey humanoid bodies, metal stronger than any found on Earth, indecipherable writing, and
14304-643: The government. Friedman interviewed Lydia Sleppy the teletype operator who years earlier had said that she was ordered not to transmit a crashed saucer story. Friedman attributed Sleppy's account to FBI usage of an alleged nationwide surveillance system that he believed was put in place following "an earlier crash". However, no evidence was found that the FBI had ever monitored any transmissions from her radio station. Friedman's description of her typing as "interrupted" by an FBI message and Moore's claim that "the machine suddenly stopped itself" were found to be impossible for
14453-531: The head coach in the spring of 2008. Over his ten-year tenure as head coach, Roswell compiled a record of 82–34–1, won a share of the 5A state championship in 2006, reached the state high school playoffs seven times and won two region championships. In 2006, he was named State AAAAA Coach of the Year. McFarlin was an assistant football coach with the Hornets for 17 years before becoming head coach in 1998. Roswell hired Leo Barker , defensive coordinator under McFarlin for
14602-433: The high school began participating in athletics with a varsity basketball team and other senior high school extracurricular activities. In 1950, Roswell High School added grade 12 as part of the statewide standard for high schools, and played its first varsity football season. The first graduating class graduated in the spring of 1951. Construction began nearby on Alpharetta Highway near the present-day Roswell City Hall on
14751-523: The host of the first GHSA sponsored tournament in May 2002. The school was one of only six to field a women's team in 1999, along with Centennial and several private schools. The 2006 Boys Lacrosse team made the state playoffs for the first time by finishing second in their region, and made it to the second round. In 2008, the Roswell Lacrosse program added a freshman boys' team, the first such team in
14900-495: The incident to include governments concealing evidence of extraterrestrial beings, grey aliens , multiple crashed flying saucers , alien corpses and autopsies, and the reverse engineering of extraterrestrial technology, none of which have any factual basis. In the 1990s, the United States Air Force published multiple reports which established that the incident was related to Project Mogul, and not debris from
15049-400: The latest in 2016. Since 1950 Roswell has a combined record of 405–244–7. Roswell football history started in 1950 when a spring practice and game was held. During the fall of that year, Roswell posted a 4–2 record, including two wins over archrival Milton. Coach Bill Yoast began building Roswell's football success when he came to coach the Hornets in 1954. In two years, he got Roswell to
15198-464: The majority of Americans doubted the Air Force explanation. News media and skeptical researchers embraced the findings. Project Mogul offered a cohesive explanation for the contemporary accounts of the debris – failing only to explain later conflicting additions. Carl Sagan and Phil Klass noted that aspects of the debris reported as anomalous – including the abstract symbols and lightweight foil – matched
15347-409: The material with Marcel. The Roswell Incident introduced alien bodies – via the second-hand legends of deceased civil engineer Grady "Barney" Barnett – purportedly found by archaeologists on the Plains of San Agustin . The authors claimed to have interviewed over 90 witnesses, though the testimony of only 25 appears in the book. Only seven of them claimed to have seen
15496-538: The materials used by Project Mogul. Mogul also matched the materials of the hypothetical "disc" as described in a 1947 FBI telex from Fort Worth, Texas . The telex said that according to the Eighth Air Force, "The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by cable, which balloon was approximately twenty feet (6 m) in diameter." In 1997, the Air Force published a second report, The Roswell Report: Case Closed . It detailed how eyewitness accounts of military personnel loading aliens into "body bags" matched
15645-474: The oldest high school in northern Fulton County. The Roswell/Milton series is the most-played high school football rivalry in metro Atlanta , with the 2014 game marking the sixtieth meeting between the schools. The two have competed since 1950 in every sport the two schools offer. In 1963 a fight broke out between the fans of the schools at a football game and the series was banned for several years. The football series then went uninterrupted from 1970 to 1997 but
15794-501: The ongoing flying disc craze . Amid the first summer of the Cold War , press nationwide covered Kenneth Arnold 's account of what became known as flying saucers , objects that allegedly performed maneuvers beyond the capabilities of any known aircraft. Coverage of Arnold's report preceded a wave of over 800 similar sightings. When Brazel visited Corona, New Mexico, on July 5, his uncle Hollis Wilson suggested his debris could be from
15943-401: The only unit at the time capable of delivering nuclear weapons. The base assigned Major Jesse Marcel and Captain Sheridan Cavitt to return with Brazel and gather the material from the ranch. RAAF Base commander Colonel William Blanchard notified the Eighth Air Force commanding officer Roger M. Ramey of their findings. On July 8, RAAF public information officer Walter Haut issued
16092-677: The other four Fulton schools, along with the North Forsyth Raiders and West Forsyth Wolverines of Forsyth County, to create a seven-team region. Roswell offers all GHSA sponsored sports. Various programs offer teams at the varsity, JV, and freshman levels. Such sports for boys include football , baseball , basketball and lacrosse . Girls' teams with all three levels are basketball and volleyball. Sports offering varsity and JV teams include cross country, golf , soccer, tennis , and track and field for both genders. Softball and lacrosse are such programs for girls while wrestling
16241-430: The past 60 years. In attributing the stories she reports to an unnamed engineer and Manhattan Project veteran while seemingly failing to conduct even minimal research into the man's sources, Jacobsen shows herself at a minimum extraordinarily gullible or journalistically incompetent." In 2017, UK newspaper The Guardian reported on Kodachrome slides which some had claimed showed a dead space alien. First presented at
16390-542: The perception of the weather officer because Mogul balloons were constructed from the same materials. Sheridan W. Cavitt, who accompanied Marcel to the debris field, provided a sworn witness statement for the report . Cavitt stated, "I thought at the time and think so now, that this debris was from a crashed balloon." Roswell High School (Georgia) Roswell High School ( RHS ) is a public high school in Roswell , Georgia, United States which opened in 1949. It serves
16539-574: The personnel at the base, his service record, the radar technology available, or the known topography of the proposed crashed site. Jim Ragsdale claimed that while driving home along Highway 285 with his girlfriend Trudy Truelove, they watched a craft that was "narrow with a bat-like wing" crash. A later interview with Ragsdale clarified that his alleged crash site was nowhere near either the purported Barnett or Kaufman sites. In further interviews, Ragsdale's story grew to include bizarre details such as Ragsdale and Truelove removing eleven golden helmets from
16688-533: The presence of bodies. Friedman, Berlitz, and Moore also connected Marcel's account to an earlier statement by Lydia Sleppy, a former teletype operator at the KOAT radio station in Albuquerque, New Mexico . Sleppy claimed that she was typing a story about crashed saucer wreckage as dictated by reporter Johnny McBoyle until interrupted by an incoming message, ordering her to end communications. Between 1978 and
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16986-488: The school colors are green, black, and white. The Hornets compete in 16 sports at the varsity level , with additional teams competing at the junior varsity and 9th grade level. 11 sports are available to boys, 10 are for girls, and 2 are co-ed. Overall, 23 teams compete at varsity level, with 43 total. The Hornets have won multiple state titles in athletics, including three each in football and baseball , and two in boys' basketball . Roswell's most successful girls' team
17135-501: The school's halls, concerts, plays, and a spring musical jointly put on by the drama and choral departments. The drama department annually hosts Short Attention Span Theatre, featuring plays, shorts, and monologues which are written, cast, directed, and produced by RHS students. Roswell Choruses have performed on numerous occasions for the Georgia Music Educator's Association and sang at the 2003 Southern Division of
17284-408: The school. Students from outside the city limits were required to pay tuition. In 1896, the city council and mayor were authorized by the state to issue $ 5,000 in bonds to build a new school building. In 1914, the existing school was torn down and two new structures were built. Since schools were segregated at that time, a two-story brick building was constructed on Mimosa Boulevard to house
17433-467: The seventh best football rivalry in the state. Reasons cited included the age of the rivalry and the fight in 1963. In 2013 the rivals played for the state baseball championship. Milton ultimately ended up winning the state championship in extra innings by one run in front of an overflow crowd. It marked the second straight year a team from the rival schools faced off for a state title, as the girls' lacrosse teams did so in 2012. Roswell has also developed
17582-405: The state. Another milestone for the Roswell Lacrosse team came in 2008 when Michael Bender was named an All-American, the first Roswell lacrosse player to be given that honor. In 2013, the boys' team took a big step forward, making it to the state semi-finals before falling to Lambert 17–6. The following year, Roswell went into the state playoffs as a 2 seed from Region 2. They beat East Coweta in
17731-453: The statewide annual Georgia Science and Engineering Fair. Likewise, student Saif Ali tied for first place in the state science fair in 2016. U.S. News & World Report ranked Roswell High 162nd in its 2014 list of best high schools for the academic disciplines of Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) and 339th on the 2014 list of best high schools in the United States. The Career Tech department at Roswell High
17880-424: The subject of divergent popular works, including those by ufologist Walter Bosley, paranormal author Nick Redfern , and American journalist Annie Jacobsen . In 2011, Jacobsen's Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base featured a claim that Nazi doctor Josef Mengele was recruited by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin to produce "grotesque, child-size aviators" to cause hysteria. The book
18029-456: The teletype model that Sleppy operated in 1947. In 1994, Randle and Schmitt authored another book, The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell which claimed a cargo plane delivered alien bodies to Dwight D. Eisenhower . The book abandoned the Barnett crash site on the Plains of San Agustin as lacking evidence and contradicting its "framework of the Roswell event". Randle and Schmitt proposed
18178-420: The third SPLOST, approved by Fulton County voters on March 20, 2007. In 2014, Roswell High School began renovating its main entrance. The main office and front desk were relocated as a safety measure for the administration. The security office was also relocated to be near the main entrance. Due to the renovation, one trailer was removed from the property. The renovation took down the metal covering leading from
18327-474: The top 3% nationally. Roswell was third on the list among Fulton County's 12 high schools. Roswell offers a unique curriculum with many electives not offered anywhere else in the county. The school's unique course offerings include the Career Tech diploma track, robotics, psychology, archaeology, and foreign languages. The Foreign Language department offers French, Spanish, Latin, German, and Japanese, and
18476-456: The top athletic programs in the state. When ranking just the boys' teams, Roswell finished 13th in the state. As of the 2014–2015 season, Roswell varsity teams compete in the eight team Region 5-AAAAAA. The AAAAAA classification was created for the 2012–2013 season by the GHSA for the largest schools in the state. Roswell was previously a member of Region 6-AAAAA since its inception in 2000 with
18625-474: The top secret Project Mogul , the balloon was intended to detect Soviet nuclear tests . After metallic and rubber debris were recovered by Roswell Army Air Field personnel, the United States Army announced their possession of a "flying disc". This announcement made international headlines, but was retracted within a day. To obscure the purpose and source of the debris, the army reported that it
18774-458: The top six of each apparatus, including Annie Turner, who placed second in the All-Around, third on vault and bars , and fifth on floor . Two Roswell gymnasts finished second and sixth on the balance beam . In 2008 the Hornets finished fourth in the state. Along with rival Centennial, Roswell became one of the first two public schools in the state to offer lacrosse in 1999. Roswell was
18923-579: The town of Roswell, the media, and UFOlogy ... [The] number of researchers who employ science and its disciplined methodology is appallingly small." A 1994 USAF report identified the crashed object from the 1947 incident as a Project Mogul device. Mogul – the classified portion of an unclassified New York University atmospheric research project – was a military surveillance program employing high-altitude balloons to monitor nuclear tests . The project launched Flight No. 4 from Alamogordo Army Air Field on June 4. Flight No. 4
19072-496: The trunk of a car. After station director George Walsh broke the news over Roswell radio station KSWS and relayed it to the Associated Press , his phone lines were overwhelmed. He later recalled, "All afternoon, I tried to call Sheriff Wilcox for more information, but could never get through to him [...] Media people called me from all over the world." The press release issued by Haut read: The many rumors regarding
19221-644: The two teams won every state championship. In other sports with records available, Roswell's boys' soccer team has gone 5–0–1 against Milton since 2004 while the girls' soccer team has gone 2–4 against the Eagles. 2008 saw the Hornet soccer teams record a sweep over the Milton Eagles for the second straight year. On October 22, 2008, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution named the Roswell-Milton rivalry as
19370-644: The white students in grades 1 through 10, and a one-room wooden building was built on Pleasant Hill Avenue for black students in grades 1 through 7. The Pleasant Hill facility also served as a meeting place for a local lodge and the Pleasant Hill Baptist Church until the church built its own facility across the street in 1922. Grade 11 was added in the 1920s to the Mimosa Boulevard school. Black students who progressed past grade 7 could then attend Washington High School in Atlanta. During
19519-481: Was "part of the disinformation" Schmitt believed was working to discredit ufology. Corso's story was criticized for its similarities to science fiction like The X-Files . Lacking evidence, the book relied on weight provided by Corso's past work on the Foreign Technology Division , and a foreword from US Senator and World War II veteran Strom Thurmond . Corso had misled Thurmond to believe he
19668-413: Was 14, offered ufologists a description that matched the materials used by Project Mogul, "There was what appeared to be pieces of heavily waxed paper and a sort of aluminum-like foil. [...] Some of the metal-foil pieces had a sort of tape stuck to them, and when they were held up to the light they showed what looked like pastel flowers [...]". According to the book, "some of the most important testimony"
19817-515: Was 1477, while the national average was 1518. 477 students took AP exams in 2005, with 84% receiving the necessary score (3 or higher) to earn college credit. Nationally, only 60% score high enough to earn college credits. Three RHS students were named National Merit Scholars in 2005. Roswell's academic success has brought national recognition. In 2006, the school was ranked the No. 472 school in Newsweek magazine's top 1,200 schools, ranking in
19966-424: Was a conventional weather balloon . In 1978, retired Air Force officer Jesse Marcel revealed that the army's weather balloon claim had been a cover story, and speculated that the debris was of extraterrestrial origin. Popularized by the 1980 book The Roswell Incident , this speculation became the basis for long-lasting and increasingly complex and contradictory UFO conspiracy theories , which over time expanded
20115-453: Was against Milton, a 14–0 win on September 22, 1950. The largest margin of victory in the series also belongs to Roswell, a 45–0 victory on October 26, 2007. In lacrosse, the series records are the opposite; Roswell has a losing record to its archrival in lacrosse. The closest sport in the rivalry is gymnastics, in which the two teams have combined for eleven state titles (seven Roswell, four Milton) and for seven years from 1997 to 2003 one of
20264-596: Was an American businessman, planter and industrialist Roswell Park (surgeon) (1852–1914), American physician Roswell A. Parmenter (1821–1904), New York politician Roswell B. Rexford , Michigan politician Roswell S. Ripley (1823–1887), Confederate Army general Roswell Rudd (1935–2017), American musician Roswell Weston (1774–1861), New York politician and judge Roswell Williams, pseudonym of Frank Owen (author) (1893–1968), American novelist Maggie Roswell (born 1952), American actress In culture and fiction [ edit ] Roswell High ,
20413-588: Was criticized for extensive errors by scientists from the Federation of American Scientists . Historian Richard Rhodes , writing in The Washington Post , also criticized the book's sensationalistic reporting of "old news" and its "error-ridden" reporting. He wrote: "All of [her main source's] claims appear in one or another of the various publicly available Roswell/UFO/Area 51 books and documents churned out by believers, charlatans and scholars over
20562-483: Was demolished, and a new school was built on the existing site to allow the 10th and 11th grades to return to Roswell as the inaugural Roswell High School. G.W. Adams was the first principal and oversaw the addition of more rooms to the school over the next few years. During this growth, the Baptist, Presbyterian and Methodist churches also located on Mimosa Boulevard were used to house auxiliary classrooms. Also in 1949,
20711-459: Was drifting toward Corona within 17 miles of Brazel's ranch when its tracking equipment failed. Major Jesse Marcel and USAF Brigadier General Thomas DuBose publicly described the claims of a weather balloon as a cover story in 1978 and 1991, respectively. In the USAF report, Richard Weaver states that the weather balloon story may have been intended to "deflect interest from" Mogul, or it may have been
20860-550: Was eventually crowned state co-champion after a controversial 14–14 tie against the Peachtree Ridge Lions . The Hornets finished the season 13–1–1. Roswell players won many post-season accolades, including quarterback Dustin Taliaferro, who made The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Associated Press All-State First team, and running back Alex Daniel (All-State Honorable Mention). The Roswell Hornets began
21009-537: Was given by Marcel, the former intelligence officer who had gathered the debris in 1947 and claimed to have been part of a cover-up. The broader UFO media treated Marcel as a whistleblower . Independent researchers found embellishment in Jesse Marcel's accounts, including false statements about his military career and educational background. Majestic 12 was the purported organization behind faked government documents delivered anonymously to multiple ufologists in
21158-401: Was head coach for 23 seasons (1975–97). and had a record of 141–102–1. After retiring as head coach, Coach Manus returned to the team as an assistant in 2004, and the stadium was officially named after him that year as well. Though he never won a state title as head coach, Manus was on the coaching staff for all three titles. In 2006, after a 35-year absence from being at the top of the state,
21307-549: Was honored in the January 2007 issue of Atlanta Magazine for offering the most foreign language courses in the Atlanta area. RHS students participated in the 2007 Annual Japanese Challenge Academic Bowl and won the most awards of any school at the competition. In 2007, RHS Senior Maia Bageant was named as one of 141 Presidential Scholars by the United States Department of Education. In 2008, Roswell High
21456-477: Was one of 23 Georgia schools recognized by state school superintendent Kathy Cox as an AP Merit School (20% of students taking AP exams, 50% or more of those receiving a score of three or higher). Also in 2008, Roswell High School student Ishna Sharma was named as one of only 139 Presidential Scholars. RHS student Anand Srinivasan received the Kroger Pinnacle Award in 2014, the top award given at
21605-465: Was providing a foreword for a different book. Upon discovering the book's actual contents, Thurmond demanded the publisher remove his name and writing from future printings stating, "I did not, and would not, pen the foreword to a book about, or containing, a suggestion that the success of the United States in the Cold War is attributable to the technology found on a crashed UFO." Roswell has remained
21754-482: Was rekindled after ufologist Stanton Friedman interviewed Jesse Marcel in 1978. Marcel had accompanied the Roswell debris from the ranch to the Fort Worth press conference. In the 1978 interview, Marcel stated that the "weather balloon" explanation from the press conference was a cover story, and that he now believed the debris was extraterrestrial. On December 19, 1979, Marcel was interviewed by Bob Pratt of
21903-470: Was temporarily ended when the GHSA moved Milton to a different Region, which made scheduling difficult. The series was reinstated in 2000 when Milton and Roswell were again in Region 6-AAAAA. Since 1950, Roswell has held a 34–21–1 advantage over their archrival in football, including winning seven straight from 2001 to 2007. The 2008 meeting was won by Milton, 20–19. Roswell won a series record 14 straight games from 1983 to 1995. Roswell's very first football game
22052-430: Was to "get as much of the story out with as little fiction as possible." That same year, Moore, Friedman, and Jaime Shandera began work on a KPIX-TV UFO documentary, and Moore shared the original "MJ Twelve" memo mentioning Bennewitz. KPIX-TV contacted the Air Force, who noted many style and formatting errors; Moore admitted that he had typed and stamped the document as a facsimile. On December 11, 1984, Shandera received
22201-402: Was watched by 28 million people. In 1994, Dennis's account was portrayed by Unsolved Mysteries and dramatized in the made-for-TV movie Roswell . Dennis appeared in multiple books and documentaries. In 1991, Dennis co-founded a UFO museum in Roswell along with Max Littell and former RAAF public affairs officer Walter Haut. Dennis provided false names for the nurse who allegedly witnessed
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