[LucyT]

Roswell, New Mexico sprang to international fame on July 8, 1947, when the local newspaper reported the capture of a 'flying saucer' by government officials in the town.

Over the decades since the discovery, conspiracy theorists have insisted that the debris came from an alien spacecraft, and that the fact was covered up by the military.

[jonrick46]

Perhaps the UFOs that crashed were two of Nazi Germany's Horton 229 stealth fighters:

Without the aid of computer flight stabilization technology, they were hard to fly.

The funny space alien stories were a hoax to keep the Soviets diverted from the true nature of the technology we snuck out of Germany after the war.

Today's stealth aircraft are a direct beneficiary to that German technology.

[Lockbar]

This thread requires the mandatory pic of the very tan-big hair UFO dude.

[Fledermaus]

Dementia can be ugly.

[Bon mots]

Can't have a UFO thread without this gentleman...

Stanton Friedman said that there were two all along, and it was supposedly a new powerful radar being tested that brought down the little grey men.

[Las Vegas Dave]

Pinging the unidentified aerial phenomena list (ufo) ..

May 8, 1950-This is one of the most famous UFO pictures ever taken.
Photographed by Paul Trent, and first witnessed by his wife.
They were published in a local newspaper in McMinnville, Oregon.
Shortly thereafter, the Trent photos were published in Life magazine edition of June 26, 1950.
The rest is history.
(NOTE: These photos have been deemed authentic for over 50 years.
The analysis of the McMinnville photos by Dr.Bruce Maccabee PhD, can be found at
http://brumac.8k.com/trent1.html )

Those interested in the uap/ufo ping list, please Freepmail
LasVegasDave (freepmail works best)
if you would like your name added to the list.
( Approximately 200+ freepers are currently on the ping list ).

[WoofDog123]

random thoughts.

Jesse Marcel (son of the officer in the famous roswell photo who was oic on the scene) was a freeper, Jesseam. he posted on many topics and would often chime in on these threads. he made no claims of aliens or any of that. He did say it was material unlike anything he has ever seen since, and he explicitly said he had handled/seen the various gizmos proposed (including here) over the course of his life and they weren’t it. He had been particularly interested in a piece with some sort of ‘writing’ on it.

Quix passed away not too long ago. Somewhere someone linked to his obituary, which included some remarkable and impressive elements of his life I never saw mentioned.

https://www.farmingtonfuneral.com/obituaries/delbert-dobyns-1