UFO History

The combination of an age-old UFO enigma in America with the crypto world has led to the holding of Bitcoins in Roswell, the capital of New Mexico, USA. 

In this regard, on-chain analytics company Arkham Intelligence has drawn attention to the entity that apparently holds 0.173 BTC, worth $13,312.52. The timing and location of the event seem to have sparked discussions suggesting that aliens might be quietly collecting their Bitcoin hoard.

Roswell’s UFO legacy revisited through Bitcoin

Roswell became a global interest in 1947 when the United States Air Force issued a report stating that they found a “flying disc” in the vicinity of Roswell. This report, issued on July 8, 1947, sparked rumors about the crash of an alien spacecraft. 

The military later denied their claim, explaining that the object was merely a piece of a weather balloon. Decades of witness claims, secret documents, and mysterious metallic remains have kept the story of Roswell alive. 

This has contributed to the city becoming a hotspot for UFO conspiracy theorists. In fact, the city’s very logo exploits this extraterrestrial background, something crypto fans cannot ignore, given recent Bitcoin transactions.

In the last year, Roswell has become the first U.S. municipality to officially establish a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve via donations. The very first seed contribution, deposited on April 29, 2025, included 3,050,323 satoshis, equaling 0.0305 BTC and valued at around $2,906. 

ALIENS ARE BUYING BITCOIN

The city of Roswell, New Mexico was the site of a famous UFO crash in 1947. The US Army Air Force announced possession of a “flying disc”, believed by many to be an alien spacecraft.

Now, that same city holds $13.3K of BTC that it received as donations… pic.twitter.com/u2mn9rWL58

— Arkham (@arkham) May 26, 2026

Anonymous subsequent contributions increased the balance to 0.173 BTC. The donations appear as deposits from various Bitcoin addresses, including some associated with regular retail wallets and services like Robinhood. 

The city’s Arkham profile features a customized avatar combining extraterrestrial imagery with the Roswell Cosmicon logo. The reception of the first contribution has been signed by the mayor pro tem, Juliana Halvorson, and Bitcoin enthusiast Guy Malone.

The Arkham dashboard shows that the reserve is maintained on the Bitcoin blockchain and that there have been no outflows. The chart showing the evolution of balances shows a continuous increase since mid-2025, indicating that the total current market value is driven by Bitcoin price growth, not the municipality’s purchases.

Roswell passes landmark 10-year HODL ordinance 

According to reports, the management of Roswell’s Bitcoin is regulated by a very restrictive municipal ordinance that prohibits quick selling of these digital currencies. All Bitcoin donations have to be held for at least 10 years. 

After the fund exceeds $1 million in value, the city can spend no more than 21 percent of the funds annually. Such spending can take place once every five years. Uses of the Bitcoin reserve are highly restricted to two purposes only—subsidizing the payment of elderly people’s water bills and financing disaster relief efforts.

The announcement has led to a great deal of discussion on crypto forums. The Arkham blog post presented a provocative question: “Is this the first BTC in the possession of extraterrestrials?” 

This prompted a number of comments suggesting that the original visitors from 1947 might have returned and diversified into Bitcoin. Another interesting point to note is that the irony of a city known for covering up a weather balloon as aliens is now amassing Bitcoins under the table. CoinDelisi, a Turkish crypto analyst, found a way to spin the story into an amusing tale, pointing out that, even though these are donated coins, they’ve become memes in the crypto community.

Do UFOs – now officially termed Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena – exist?

The Department of Defense created the All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO) in 2022 to research UAP in an evidence-based fashion. The first volume of AARO’s Historical Record Report, published in 2024, states that, over 80 years of investigation by various government bodies, there is no empirical evidence to support the theory of an extraterrestrial origin of any UAP incident or of the United States’ recovery and reverse engineering of alien spacecraft.

On February 21, 2026, President Donald Trump issued a directive ordering various government agencies to declassify any documents regarding UAP/UFOs and other matters related to extraterrestrials. In accordance with that directive, the Department of Defense (through the website war.gov/ufo) has published multiple batches of papers and videos (the first batch was released on May 8, 2026; the second on May 22, 2026).

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