3. The author has never worked with the military, the government nor any other huge bureaucracy.....
Actually there are three facts. The third is that John Denver was born in Roswell almost 9 months to the day after the crash.
That one seals it for me.
The best part is, these "special" binoculars only cost $3,500.00
What a deal!!
I worked in Roswell twice in 2001 and got to visit the hanger area where the craft was supposedly taken at first. I also talked with several local folks my age that were kids when all of this happened in 1947. To a person they all told the same story; their parents were threatened by the military with physical harm if they talked about the crash. I personally believe that those Germans that we relocated down there after World War II (the ones that had conducted the horrific high altitude decompression tests on live prisoners) had something to do with the saucer and the mutated things inside.
Yes, it really was an unidentified flying somethingorother.
I have no doubt there is life elsewhere in this galaxy; it never visited New Mexico however.
I'm laughing here. Did they use their UFO intel recognition cards to identify it? People get corrected the next day, week, month, all the time.
Additionally, the Newspaper strikes me as odd. Would a credible story of an alien space ship recovery in one's home town really get pushed to the right by "Movies as Usual", an international meeting in Paris, stacked court martials, tax cuts AND a UN arms reduction recommendation? I think not.
An overly excitable reaction by the AAF personnel and/or a local Barney Fife type reporter are more likely.
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.
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.
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.
If the little green men were technologically advanced enough to get here, I would think that they’d be technologically advanced enough not to crash. But that’s just me.
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LMAO! Another fargin moron writer still thinks UFO stuff is real! What a dingletard.
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.
Sorry Joe you gottta come up with more than that before I'll consider it more than comedy. SHOW ME DA WRECKAGE. Then I'll proclaim that you were right and I was wrong.
I came to Roswell, in 2006 to to frankly see the festival and just be alone........I met a lifetime resident and married her, UFO or not I love this place.
I never claimed weather balloons weren’t real. Just that they aren’t piloted by space monsters.
