1000 Francs CFA Roswell UFO Incident 1947-2017 Round coin

Burkina Faso has issued commemorative coinage under licensing arrangements since the 1990s, with designs contracted almost entirely to European private mints targeting the collector novelty market rather than any domestic monetary purpose. This piece belongs to that category entirely — a foreign-market commemorative with no meaningful circulation history and no connection to Burkinabè national affairs.

The Roswell incident of July 1947 involved the recovery of debris near a ranch outside Roswell, New Mexico, initially reported by the Army Air Force as a "flying disc" before being reclassified as a weather balloon within days. That retraction is what drove decades of speculation.