Editing Roswell incident (section)

===Related debunked or fringe theories===
Roswell has remained the subject of divergent popular works, including those by ufologist Walter Bosley, paranormal author [[Nick Redfern]], and American journalist [[Annie Jacobsen]].<ref>{{harvnb|Gulyas|2014|loc=ch.&nbsp;9, paras.&nbsp;34–50}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news |last=Harding |first=Thomas |date=May 13, 2011 |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8512408/Roswell-was-Soviet-plot-to-create-US-panic.html |url-access=subscription |title=Roswell 'was Soviet plot to create US panic{{'-}} |newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |access-date=February 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520225608/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8512408/Roswell-was-Soviet-plot-to-create-US-panic.html |archive-date=May 20, 2011 |url-status=live}}{{cbignore}}</ref>  The book was criticized for extensive errors by scientists from the [[Federation of American Scientists]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Norris |first1=Robert |last2=Richelson |first2=Jeffrey |date=July 11, 2011 |url=http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2011/07/area51.html |title=Dreamland Fantasies |publisher=[[Washington Decoded]] |access-date=February 6, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305234012/http://www.washingtondecoded.com/site/2011/07/area51.html |archive-date=March 5, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> 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 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."<ref>{{cite news |last=Rhodes |first=Richard |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/annie-jacobsens-area-51-the-us-top-secret-military-base/2011/05/26/AGIZPLIH_story.html |title=Annie Jacobsen's "Area 51," the U.S. Top-Secret Military Base |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=June 3, 2011 |access-date=November 10, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151110044854/https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/annie-jacobsens-area-51-the-us-top-secret-military-base/2011/05/26/AGIZPLIH_story.html |archive-date=November 10, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2017, UK newspaper ''[[The Guardian]]'' reported on [[Kodachrome]] slides which some had claimed showed a dead space alien.<ref name="Carpenter-2017">{{harvnb|Carpenter|2017}}</ref> First presented at a UFO conference in Mexico, organised 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 [[Mesa Verde National Park#Mug, Oak Tree, Spruce Tree, and Square Tower houses|Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum]] in Mesa Verde, Colorado, for many decades.<ref name="Carpenter-2017" /> In 2020, an Air Force historian revealed a recently declassified report of 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.<ref>{{cite news |first=Rick |last=Neale |title=Stranger things? |url=https://www.floridatoday.com/in-depth/news/local/2020/02/06/military-roswell-alien-made-woman-faint-in-1950-patrick-air-force-base-scientist/2831138001/ |newspaper=Florida Today |location=Melbourne, Florida |pages=1A, 8A, 9A |date=February 8, 2020 |access-date=February 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200208082017/https://www.floridatoday.com/in-depth/news/local/2020/02/06/military-roswell-alien-made-woman-faint-in-1950-patrick-air-force-base-scientist/2831138001/ |archive-date=February 8, 2020 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Young-2020-p27">{{harvnb|Young|2020|p=27}}</ref>