Editing 1947 flying disc craze (section)

====Roswell debris====
{{main|Roswell incident}}
[[File:Marcel-roswell-debris 0.jpg|thumb|At Fort Worth Army Air Field, Major Jesse A. Marcel posing with debris on July 8, 1947]]

On July 8, 1947, RAAF [[public information officer]] [[Walter Haut]] issued a [[press release]] stating that personnel from the field's [[509th Operations Group]] had recovered a "flying disc", which had landed on a ranch near Roswell.

The following day, the "disc" was revealed to be pieces of a weather balloon.  On July 9, ''[[Roswell Daily Record]]'' reported that the debris consisted of "large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks."<ref name="7bqsQ">{{cite news|url=http://ufologie.net/rw/p/roswelldailyrecord9jul1947.htm |title=Harassed Rancher who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About it |newspaper=[[Roswell Daily Record]] |date=July 9, 1947 |access-date=February 5, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090109043134/http://ufologie.net/rw/p/roswelldailyrecord9jul1947.htm |archive-date=January 9, 2009}}</ref>