July 8

July 8 is a date that the town fathers of Roswell, New Mexico will celebrate for a very long time. On that day in 1947 news reports were broadcast around the nation that a UFO had crash-landed in their little town, thus giving them a firm grip on a sustainable tourist industry and spawning who knows how many t-shirt companies and websites. If you think there is no government cover-up of this alien encounter just try finding Roswell using Google Earth.