Roswell Grows Up
The Roswell mythology spent the 2000s losing its key witnesses and its fabricated evidence. Then the government quietly started studying UFOs again. Then it started admitting things. We still don't know what Mac Brazel found.
Ank Invader
Ank Invader is a contributor to and Publisher of YGBFKM. He dedicated decades to software dev and publishing but devoted a lifetime to all things weird and mysterious. He dreams of the day he runs the headline, "Aliens Land on the White House Lawn."
The Mythology Machine
Between 1978 and 2000, Roswell transformed from a forgotten local incident into the defining UFO event in American history. Some of that transformation was accidental. Some of it was manufactured by people working for the government, who later confessed.
The Long Silence
For 30 years after the 1947 incident, the weather balloon explanation held. Not because it was convincing, but because the government built something to make it hold.
72 Hours in Roswell
On the morning of July 8, 1947, the U.S. Army announced it had captured a flying saucer. By evening, it hadn't. What happened in between, and in the nine days before, is one of the most documented non-explanations in American institutional history.
What Roswell Knows
Directory of posts marking the 79th anniversary of the Roswell incident with a series of posts covering the original events, the official record, and the decades of fallout.
Roswell: 79 Years of What We Don't Know
From a rancher's debris field in 1947 to a congressional hearing in 2026: the complete arc of the incident that won't stay closed. An interactive timeline covering 38 key events across five eras.
UAP Records from 1945–2026: The Complete Dataset
The Department of War has now released 222 UAP records across two drops. This interactive timeline plots 158 records with confirmed incident dates across seven agencies. That's over 80 years worth of anomalies.
UAP Reports from 1944-2026. What the Dates Reveal.
The Pentagon's declassified UAP files span 82 years, four agencies, and 34 incidents. This interactive timeline lets you explore every record — from WWII foofighters to a 2026 Army infrared video released the same day as the dataset.