Yup.
Posted on 06/14/2009 11:40:12 AM PDT by JoeProBono
Here we go again.
Yes, it was a real Top Secret Mogul balloon intended to detect Soviet atomic tests.
http://www.roswellfiles.com/storytellers/KentJeffrey1.htm
The world would be a more interesting place if aliens had crashed at Roswell, but it didn’t happen. But it seems that for some people the idea that it did is impossible to give up.
Classified project with new materials and technology.
Not every person in government or the military is aware of every project out there.
Ahhhhhh. . .that is what “they” want you to believe.
;-)
These work just as well and are alot cheaper.
Onerom99 hasn’t created an about page.
I am with you. I don’t know one single person who has claimed to have seen a UFO or have any report of a friend of theirs seeing one. I have met a lot of people in my 69 years and not one has any personal knowledge of alien aircraft.
Same with Bigfoot, there should be some evidence, a skeleton, a dead body, something. In this day when everyone has a phone with a camera, some convincing pictures should show up. I am willing to believe if I see evidence of either one, but I haven’t.
Now ghosts, that is another story.
I STILL think the best book ever written about the whole Roswell thing is: Carey, Thomas, and Donald R. Schmitt, ‘Witness to Roswell’. If you’re even the slightest bit interested in the event, this is THE book to read.
And it’s sufficiently well-written that it’ll appeal also to those who aren’t too terribly interested in such things, but are simply looking for a “good read” for the summer hammock, the airport waiting lounge or the flight, or the beach. It’s a lot of fun, by any standard.
THAT’S the one!
Dirty person! It was telepathic. He filled up her senses. Nothing physical.
parsy, who knows about such things.
At first I skimmed through it as I thought is was another conspiracy theory. It turned out to be quite the opposite, and convinced me it wasn't a UFO crash.
The author points out some interesting items:
While the event happened in 1947, it didn't catch fire until Stanton Friedman gave a UFO talk in the '70s and someone told him to "talk to Jesse Martell's kid.".
The "spaceship" was a balloon with a monitoring device. The Army had trouble tracking it so they added diamond-shaped reflectors made out of balsa sticks and aluminum foil and Kraft paper.
The manufacturer of said reflectors made toys and used some of its old wrapping tape to tape the aluminum paper to the sticks - the tape had little kiddie symbols like half moons, stars, etc. which was later interpreted as "hieroglyphics". The scientists involved in the project joked on how a super secret device used parts made by a toy manufacturer.
The mortician who said the USAAF ordered "child-size" coffins was proved a liar. The Nurse he said told him about the bodies conveniently was "killed in an air crash" - only no nurses were killed that way during that time period. Then the guy said she "might have joined a convent and took an oath of silence". (I kid you not.)
The napkin that had her drawing of the "alien" was "accidentally" tossed out a few days before the interview.
Instead of fading, memories of those involved sharpened over the years.
Researchers used books by other "investigators" for reference instead of going back to the basic reports/documents, much like the Bermuda Triangle industry does.
Bottom line: The govt had a secret spy balloon go down in the NM desert and tromped on its own crank trying to cover it up.
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