Definition of "Roswell"

Roswell

proper noun
countable and uncountable, plural Roswells
1. A surname.
2. A city, the county seat of Chaves County, New Mexico, known for conspiracy theories that its Roswell Army Air Field has recovered UFOs and extraterrestrials.
3. The most significant ufological event of a region.
  Quotations
  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
  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
4. A city in Fulton County, Georgia, United States.
5. An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho, United States.
6. A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, United States.
7. A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota, United States.