@freemo I've read some of Charles Fort's stuff from the 19th century. He had all kinds of cases that read just like modern UFO reports aside from the archaic language.
So it's definitely not RADAR or nuke tests that attracted the aliens to Roswell, and it's not experimental aircraft either. It's been there forever.
The Spiritualists of the 19th century also collected a lot of cases from the pre-telegraph era where someone knew real-time details of a death hundreds of miles away.