Case file · Folklore / legend
International UFO Museum opens in Roswell
In September 1991 Glenn Dennis, Walter Haut (the officer who issued the 1947 'flying disc' press release) and Max Littell opened the International UFO Museum and Research Center in a former Roswell movie theatre.
1991 CE · 33.40, -104.52 · status: official
The account
The museum and the annual UFO Festival, which grew around the 50th anniversary in 1997, turned the 1947 incident into the town's main industry and a fixture of American popular culture.
The sceptical view
A museum of a belief, not proof of one; its exhibits present claims that the Air Force reports and many researchers dispute.