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In this episode I accidentally repeated two things: [1] a name (Jesse Marcel) and [2] some of the ideas from a previous section. Not exactly repeated but I covered the same ideas twice and missed them when I was editing. I have corrected this mistake, and uploaded a new version.

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This is Renegade Files Episode 104, The Roswell UFO Incident: Part 2.

The Roswell story didn’t end with a flying saucer headline. In many ways, that was only the beginning.

Here, in Part 2 of our Roswell UFO Incident deep dive, we follow what happened after the world was told that a flying disc had been recovered in New Mexico.

Within hours, the story reversed. The debris was reclassified, the witnesses were minimized, and a new explanation took hold. What followed was not clarification, but containment.

This episode examines the Fort Worth press conference and the balloon explanation, the shock felt by those who had handled the original debris, and the rapid solidification of a narrative that discouraged further questions. We explore how ridicule, repetition, and media compliance transformed Roswell from an open mystery into a closed case.

From there, we trace how the Roswell Official Narrative Playbook echoes into the modern era, culminating in the famous but lackluster Pentagon UFO Report, which conspicuously omitted Roswell entirely, and fell back on familiar explanations that have been used for decades.

Together, Parts 1 and 2 form a complete investigation into how Roswell shaped not just UFO mythology, but official response itself.

[If you haven’t already, be sure to listen to Episode 103: The Roswell UFO Incident (Part 1) before this episode, to experience the full arc of the story.]

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