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## Overview
- **Source**: [Wikipedia Ufo Sightings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_reported_UFO_sightings)
- **Incident Type**: #sighting
- **Incident Date**: 1947-7-8
- **Reported Date**: unknown
- **Author**: Wikipedia
- **Location**: NAUnited States; about 30 mi. north of Roswell, New Mexico
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## Summary
Walter Haut, a United States Army Air Forces spokesperson, issued a press release announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer". Hours later, the Army announced that the find was a crashed weather balloon. In 1978, the case regained attention after Jesse Marcel, the Army Officer who recovered the wreckage, told UFO researchers that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story. In 1994, the Air Force attributed the incident to the previously classified Project Mogul.
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