Part his­to­ry, part sci­ence, and part detec­tive sto­ry … Can­dace Flem­ing research­es the mys­tery at Roswell, New Mex­i­co, and the “crash from out­er space” that set the Unit­ed States on edge for decades.

In 1947, dur­ing the ear­ly years of the Cold War, a field in Roswell, New Mex­i­co was dis­turbed by a strange crash and smat­ter­ing of debris. Some say the bod­ies of extrater­res­tri­al beings were strewn across the ground, that a UFO had crashed there, and that the gov­ern­ment was cov­er­ing up the evi­dence in a mas­sive conspiracy.

But what real­ly hap­pened at Roswell?

The infa­mous “crash from out­er space” has become a fix­ture in our cul­ture, inspir­ing a surge of UFO sight­ings and con­spir­a­cy the­o­ries. But at its heart is the sto­ry of mil­i­tary sci­en­tists, a city on the brink of the Cold War, and a debris field scat­tered with mys­tery. What was it that actu­al­ly crashed at Roswell? Were alien bod­ies found? Was it Russ­ian spies? Secret mil­i­tary tech­nol­o­gy? And did the gov­ern­ment try to hide what they found?