Roswell UFO Crash, July 21, 1977 — FBI File (D214P21)
A post-cold war case from Roswell, New Mexico. The USAF published 'The Roswell Report' in 1995, which included research by Col.
Background
On July 21, 1977, in Roswell, New Mexico, the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) recorded the unidentified-phenomenon case described below. The case is preserved in AARO’s 2024-2025 publications and consolidated annual reports to Congress, declassified or released in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and Department of Defense reporting cycles.
A post-cold-war case predating the formation of the modern uap task forces.
The case appears in materials produced or curated by the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office.
What the document records
The USAF published ‘The Roswell Report’ in 1995, which included research by Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1st Lt. James McAndrew. The report concluded that the research did not indicate the Roswell Incident was a UFO event, nor was there any cover-up.
Type of case
The case is a visual sighting reported by ground or air observers.
Status
AARO designates unresolved cases as those for which the agency has not concluded the events were anomalous, has not concluded that they were conventional, and has not ruled out either possibility. Conventional candidates for sightings of recent periods include commercial drones, classified test platforms, satellite re-entry, balloon traffic, atmospheric optical phenomena, and astronomical objects.