The United States military maintains that it was not an UFO crash, and that the debris found at the site belonged to an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to a classified program named "Mogul". However, accounts of many inhabitants of Roswell seem to contradict that.
We expected both the city and the International UFO Museum and Research Center to be totally overdone and kitschy. However, they weren't. There were a few pictures and statues of aliens and UFOs here and there, but by no means, it was out of whack.
Also, I expected the UFO Museum to be mostly targeting kids and UFO-maniacs, and hence, to be full of weird artifacts and sensational stories. Surprisingly, that was not a case. Just the opposite, I am sure that most kids would find the museum incredibly boring as it almost only displays (pseudo-)scientific documents, affidavits from people who lived in Roswell at the time of the alleged UFO crash, and newspapers reports from those days. Lots of reading, very little fun.
Welcome to the International UFO Museum and Research Center:
One of the first newspapers' reports about the crash:
A photo of the material found at the crash site:
For the most part, the museum is filled with scientific and historical articles, newspaper reports, written statements and photographs:
Just next to exit there are figures from the 1994 movie Roswell:
