Foo Fighters To Play Roswell

Foo Fighters are heading to Roswell, the place where mysterious UFO was allegedly sighted and an alien captured in the 40s.

Foo Fighters will perform for 500 fans at a one-off invitation only gig at walker Air Force base later this month.

The base is where the U.S. government allegedly stored evidence from the crash of a mysterious unidentified flying object in July 1947.

"This is a long overdue and historic moment for this band," says Foo Fighters founder Dave Grohl. "Despite being in a band called Foo Fighters, having a label called Roswell Records, and being a total UFO nut, I have never been to Roswell, NM. So the fact that we finally get to go to Roswell and play a gig in the same hangar where they allegedly stored the remains of the 1947 UFO crash blows my mind. I can't think of a better way to celebrate the band's 10 year anniversary."

Foo Fighters took their name from similarly mysterious unidentified glowing balls that Allied and German pilots reported seeing at night during World War II. The pilots dubbed these objects "foo fighters," after a popular comic strip of the era.

They named their record label Roswell Records.