Posted on 06/24/2015 11:54:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
Earlier this month at a UFO conference in Mexico City two photographs claimed to have been found in a trunk in Sedona and depicting an alien body that crashed in Roswell in 1947 were revealed.
The images, which have created a buzz among UFO believers, depict a small human-shaped figure with an enlarged head—apparently in a display case with an unreadable placard, oddly enough.
Low-resolution images had been circulating for some time, and several skeptical researchers (including myself here on Discovery News, I modestly note) identified the “Roswell alien” as a mummified child.
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The Airforce owns one of Batman’s jets?
That place is awesome. My daughter and I went there a few years back.
Felt a little closer to home ;)
The day we were there a wild hail storm rolled in leaving us stranded inside just as they closed. A friendly employee I got to talking to locked the doors and gave us about an hour of his own time while walking us through and showing us things and giving us his own insight while we waited for the storm to clear. It was really nice of him.
I went to visit my kid when she was stationed at Holloman AFB. We took the day and headed to Roswell. It’s amazing how much history is in that building. Legit history.
Wanted to do the Trinity site but it wasn’t open. Only open like a week a year or so. Alamogordo has a great space museum too. The Rocket sled is awesome. And one of those Saturn V rocket motors in person is something to behold.
Actually now that I think about it, that Alamogordo museum reminds me a lot of a Fallout (video game) Vault with all the early tech and the way it’s laid out inside. A must see if you ever go back.
That was my kid’s planes ;) She was an engine mechanic at Holloman on the 117 before moving to the F22 when they retired the Stealth.
Side note: I was building my last project truck at the time. She was all excited about it. I told her “Perspective: Get some. You work on 250 million dollar airplanes.” ;)
I killed an afternoon in there, years ago. I was pleasantly surprised.
I grew up in Carlsbad (Onward Cavemen!) in the 50s and 60s. I remember first hearing about the crashed UFO when ten or twelve. Everyone seemed to know about it. I had really forgotten about it in the 80s when all of a sudden it was a big deal. I remember wondering what the big deal was as I thought everyone knew about it years ago.
When the event in question took place the 29th Air Wing was the only unit in the world that patrolled with active nukes. I suspect what actually happened was they lost a nuke in the dessert. To explain why everyone on base was quickly sent out an officer at the moment told the radio station it was a UFO. When the folks higher up the chain came in in the AM they realized that cover story was probably worse from a PR standpoint than the truth so they started changing the story.
What I love about Roswell is that main street is locked in a time machine for the most part. The buildings and the feel of it are almost all Old Americana. I think there’s a CVS or something like that but for the most part it looks like it’s a movie set for a WW2 film.
“Dolan’s response raises a larger question of why he (or anyone else) would assume that a figure that looks exactly like a human—complete with eyes, a mouth, arms, legs, apparent ribcage, and so on (albeit with an enlarged head characteristic of a child)—could be conclusively determined by experts as non-human from nothing more than a blurry photograph.”
It didn’t stop the pro abortion crowd either.
I liked the place for the same reasons.
I saw many a movie there when it was a theater. Been there. If you are into UFO stuff it is not to be missed.
While living and stationed at the Walker Air Base, I never heard of the so-called UFO crash till years later.
years ago, a popular TV show came to Roswell, located the site of the crash and dug up artifacts still in the ground.
They then had an interview with Governor Bill Richardson, and promised to give a public report on what they found.
I have never heard from that report.
***Roswell is that main street is locked in a time machine for the most part.***
That’s because when
Walker AFB closed back in 1967, Roswell lost all the military payrolls. Walker AFB was the life blood of Roswell.
Many of the businesses in town took the airmen to the cleaners, and when word got out that the base was closing, the city did all it could to squeeze the last dollar out of the military.
I remember the CAVEKIDS at Eisenhower Jr High School, and the CAVEMEN at the high school (1960-1962).
Then they built a nice new school but we left before I got to go there. I always felt Carlsbad should have been the school I graduated from instead of some hick school way back in the Ozarks.
I went to the nice new school on the hill.
Roswell went from a town of 90,000 to 30,000 overnight.
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