Roswell UFO (1947)

Scale: 1/48
Initial Release: 1997
Medium: Polystyrene
Kit Rarity: 2

About the Design

On or about July 4, 1947, metallic debris was discovered scattered around the Brazel cattle ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.  Was this merely the remains of a weather balloon, as the U.S. Air Force initially insisted?  Or was this material part of an alien "flying disc," as members of the growing UFO community would later claim?

In the decades the followed the infamous "Roswell Incident," several "eye-witnesses" stepped forward to insist that the Army had, in fact, recovered a crashed alien spacecraft outside of Roswell.  Although some claimed the craft was a simple convex disc, others described a more complex vehicle with an organic, somewhat stingray-like appearance.

Purportedly, the recovered UFO was first taken to the mysterious Hanger 18 at Wright-Pattern Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, then later shipped to the government's Top Secret Area 51 testing facility near Groom Lake, Nevada.  There it was "reverse-engineered" so that America's military could master the science behind the alien's superior technology, leading to the craft affectionately dubbed the "Sports Model."

About the Kit

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of "The Roswell Incident," Testors released this fanciful plastic model kit of the "Roswell UFO" based on what it purported to be reliable eye-witness descriptions.  Notable features included a see-thru cockpit and several little alien "grays."  The craft was also featured as part of a "Crash Scene Diorama" kit, released a year later.
This model was built from the original 1997 commemorate kit.