Roswell

Proper noun

Roswell (countable and uncountable, plural Roswells)

1. A surname.
2. A city in Fulton County, Georgia.
3. An unincorporated community in Canyon County, Idaho.
4. 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.
   • (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)
5. The 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
   • 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
6. A village in Tuscarawas County, Ohio.
7. A census-designated place in Miner County, South Dakota.