The city of Roswell is located in
east central New
Mexico, 173 miles (279 kilometers)
west of Lubbock,
Texas, and 200 miles (322 kilometers)
southeast of Albuquerque.
Roswell is the county seat of Chaves
County, and home to 45,293 people.
The city is best known for the 1947
"Roswell Incident," when a mysterious
flying object crashed here. Air Force
officials first...
