Yup.
Posted on 06/14/2009 11:40:12 AM PDT by JoeProBono
It is time once again for the annual Roswell UFO Festival, July 2-5. This is, in my opinion, the top UFO-related event in the world, because the Roswell incident of 1947 has proven to be definitive in validating the UFO phenomenon.
Skeptics refuse to accept this, and even believers don't seem to realize just what it is about the Roswell story that proves UFOs are real. The debate just goes on and on, on radio talk shows mostly, although the solution has been right out in the open since the public was first informed, back on July 8, 1947.
The continuing performances of dedicated skeptics deriding UFOs is a monstrous fraud upon the public, which the public has been witless enough to let pass, because it has had little incentive and therefore little abiding interest in focusing upon the certain but supremely awkward truth.
The facts that prove the reality of the UFO crash near Roswell are these (and they are deceptively simple, so listen closely): 1) The military itself reported the crash to the world media as genuine,
and 2) The day after the initial public release of the story, higher military authority changed that story, claiming that the wreckage recovered was in fact a weather balloon array, mistaken for alien material by the Roswell air field personnel.
Why do these facts prove the UFO? Because both the intelligence officer and commanding officer of the Roswell military post examined the wreckage and confirmed its alien nature. (I won't dwell on the details here. You can best get them on roswellufomuseum.com and other sites dedicated to the event.)
These officers, with the added concurrence of the post's information officer, put out to the world the original story that they had retrieved a bonafide UFO of non-man-made materials.
These were the top officers of a wartime bomber group, one of the most serious occupations in the world. (If you haven't been in the military and don't know just how serious it was and is, in and out of war, check out the movie "Twelve O'Clock High", made in 1949 about a wartime bomber group.)
They would not begin to think of fooling around with such a story, they would have to have been insane to risk both their own and, even worse, the military's reputations. They were entirely professional and competent. They would not have identified the craft as alien without overwhelming evidence.
They were sincere in their identification and honest and quick in sending out the story to the world. These career military officers were never impugned in their character, honesty or on-going competence in their duties.
Military higher-ups did, however, impugn their basic competence to recognize military hardware, when they issued pictures of the intelligence officer, Jesse Marcel, with supposed crash material, in which that material was obviously flimsy tin foil attached to thin wooden sticks - a childish fake, perpetrated upon an all-too-trusting public more than ready to laugh rather than look closely, in the years following a long and desperate war.
The Roswell officers went along with this deception, under orders, but the issuing of this obviously flimsy story in fact proved the reality of the UFO, because it is simply inconceivable that a competent army intelligence officer, of a wartime bomber group (post-World War II, in 1947, but into the Cold War by then), would not see what any teenage model builder could see was faked "crash" material......
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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