Roswell

plural Roswells

1. countableuncountableA surname.
2. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA city in Fulton County, Georgia.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.
   3. countableuncountableA city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.

      (1997) So go on with your life / Forget that Roswell crap / Show love to the black suit / 'Cuz that's the Men In … Black "Men in Black" by Will Smith (1997)

   4. countableuncountableThe most significant ufological event of a region.

      Among the cases he examined was an incident that has come to be known as England’s Roswell.

      1998, Jim Wilson, “Six Unexplainable Encounters”, in Popular Mechanics, Hearst Magazines, page 66

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      Kazantsev’s story was for some unaccountable reason taken seriously in the West, leading to some enthusiasts referring to Tunguska as the Russian Roswell.

      2007, Rodney Castleden, Natural Disasters That Changed the World, Book Sales, page 272

      Dubbed “Mexico’s Roswell,” the mid-air collision near Coyame of an airplane and a UFO has been the subject of a major documentary for the History Channel’s UFO Hunters series in 2008, and numerous articles in newspapers, magazines, and Websites.

      2008, Noe Torres, Ruben Uriarte, Mexico's Roswell: The Chihuahua UFO Crash, Lulu.com, page 3

   5. countableuncountableA village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
   6. countableuncountableA census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.