This Day in History: 06/24/1997 -Air Force report on Roswell

In this clip from This Day In History, we take a look at some of the remarkable things that have happened on June 24th. From fun facts to Roswell, we get to see a lot of things in this video, see U.S. Air Force officials dismissing the report about the alien space craft crashing. You need to check this out.

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