Today in History: July 8

Today is Friday, July 8, the 190th day of 2016. There are 176 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 8, 1947, a New Mexico newspaper, the Roswell Daily Record, quoted officials at Roswell Army Air Field as saying they had recovered a “flying saucer” that had crashed onto a ranch; officials then changed the object’s description, saying it was actually a weather balloon. To this day, however, there are those who believe what fell to Earth was an alien