Because we will be in Roswell, New Mexico for the UFO Festival, when is a better time to talk about one of the most controversial UFO incidents in our history: The Roswell Incident. It all started when something unknown crashed on a ranch near Roswell in 1947. The government went back and forth on what it was though, leading conspiracy theorists to believe there was something more to this than what government officials alleged. Was it a government instrument or was it something extraterrestrial?