Weatherday: 'No Details of Flying Disk Are Revealed'

A cloudy, dank start to the day. But the morning will be the best part, because rain is moving in from early afternoon. It will get heavy by teatime.

Light winds, and a maximum temperature of 13deg.

On this day in 1947, reports were broadcast that a UFO had crash-landed at Roswell, New Mexico. The place has since been a magnet for all types interested in cover-up conspiracies about things extra-terrestrial.

(Headline is from the story about it in the Roswell Daily Record.)

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