Posted on 08/17/2004 4:49:53 PM PDT by demlosers
Ten years after the U.S. Air Force closed its books on the claim that a UFO crashed in Roswell, N.M., in 1947, a top Democratic Party figure wants to reopen the investigation into the cosmic legend.
Despite denials by federal officials, many UFO buffs cherish the notion that in early summer of 1947, a flying saucer crashed in rural Roswell, scattering alien bodies and saucer debris across the terrain.
Now Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who chaired the recent Democratic convention in Boston, says in his foreword to a new book that "the mystery surrounding this crash has never been adequately explained -- not by independent investigators, and not by the U.S. government. ... There are as many theories as there are official explanations.
"Clearly, it would help everyone if the U.S. government disclosed everything it knows," says Richardson, who served as Energy secretary under President Bill Clinton. "The American people can handle the truth -- no matter how bizarre or mundane. ... With full disclosure and our best scientific investigation, we should be able to find out what happened on that fateful day in July 1947."
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Incidentally, I think that the idea that the discovery of extraterrestrial life would somehow "invalidate" religion is groundless. C. S. Lewis' science-fiction writings are centered around the concept of Christianity expanded to encompass otherworldly life.
Just further proof Bill Richardson will go to any lengths to stay in the headlines. After chairing the flop that was the Dem Convention, he has decided to appeal to the intergalactic demographic.
.......darn 'midgets' everywhere.......
/sarcasm
Roswell is a joke. It's not even close to a "mystery" and never has been. It was just one of many "saucer" reports in the wake of the Kenneth Arnold sighting. There's no contemporary evidence that anyone even thought it had anything to do with aliens.
Roswell survives because of historical ignorance among saucer buffs.
Occams Razor.
The government has said the debris was part of a balloon that was being used to test detection technology. It was made of radar deflecting metal. That sounds more plausible than a flying saucer.
Re: post # 14 - pinging!
If Heinz buys Tabasco, then I'm convinced....seriously, did Richardson just remove himself from any national ticket in 2008?
Esquire magazine called it a "moron magnet". So now we have the ...
De-moron-crats!
I had all sorts of starts to reply to you, but held back. Let's see how the thread works out.
Then years later, the government said that bodies seen were test dummies parachuted from planes. Why change the story if the original was true?
read later
The Air Force was stupid to play into the hands of the saucer buffs with the "dummies" thing.
It would have been much better to simply point out that none of the original Roswell witnesses ever claimed to have seen bodies. The "bodies" stories didn't crop up until the 70s and had nothing to do with the original report.
I swear to GOD that I am telling the truth. I am willing to trade my membership on this forum for it.
Don't worry. They're enough of us out there who are sane, educated, and logic based (non new agers) that know something is out there. We don't have to justify ourselves to others who haven't seen. I personally don't blame them one bit and actually it's probably a sign of mental health that they don't believe. Why should they?
Richardson is a hot air balloon. Unfortunately he hasn't imploded yet.
Actually callinf Dale Gribble!
:-)
but I love this stuff.
There seems to be a real need for people to have some kind of Adyton to retreat to for additional, supernatural knowledge.
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