In downtown Roswell, New Mexico, this museum and research center focuses on the nineteen forty-seven Roswell incident and later reported UFO events in the United States and beyond. Housed in a former nineteen thirties movie theater, it was founded in nineteen ninety-one and opened that September by Glenn Dennis as an educational nonprofit tied closely to Roswell’s long association with the alleged crash story. Its central subject is rancher W. W. “Mack” Brazel’s discovery of metal debris outside Roswell near a trench said to run for hundreds of feet, which fueled decades of speculation and competing theories. The institution also maintains exhibits, a large UFO library, meeting space, and a central role in Roswell’s annual UFOfest.