In 1947, a strange UFO crashed onto a cattle ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico. Local farmer Mac Brazel found the debris and wondered if he’d stumbled upon an alien spacecraft. But the secrets of outer space are never so simple. They don’t reveal themselves out of the blue. The intriguing materials scattered across those fields outside Roswell taught us nothing about the universe. But deep down in the wreckage, buried in the litter, Mac Brazel came across an old friend.