"Exactly what was found scattered across a ranch approximately 30 miles north of Roswell in 1947 continues to remain a controversial topic..." by T.K. Randall via Unexplained-Mysteries image credit: CC BY-SA 4.0 MjolnirPants The letter had been part of an enormous archive of letters and documents kept by the late UFO researcher. There are few cases in UFO lore as hotly debated as the Roswell incident, an event that has been covered in countless books, documentaries, TV shows and movies over the last few decades. Exactly what was found scattered across a ranch approximately 30 miles north of Roswell in 1947 continues to remain a controversial topic, with some believing that it was a crashed alien spacecraft, some subscribing to the official 'weather balloon' story and others again believing that it was some sort of secretive government project that went awry and had to be covered up. A few years ago, a previously unseen letter written by the son of a military witness concerning these