Posted on 05/14/2021 6:31:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
UFO stories are kind of like ghost stories.
Have I ever seen or felt that could have been ghost or the supernatural?
Yes, almost everyone has.
However, I think that perception is more about how the human brain works rather than the reality you see around you.
The UFO museum in Roswell is a lot of fun—worth the visit—if you get “lucky” you meet might some folks who claim they were abducted by aliens...
;-)
The problem is that there are layers are disinformation on this subject—including “loyalty tests” with different stories to identify employees who cannot be trusted to keep secrets.
Seem’s Mack’s story changed.
Right after finding the wreckage, he claimed it was made up of metal he had never seen before. Metal bars in the wreckage had strange writing on them. Plants in the area were singed.
Then Mack is taken into custody by the authorities for about a week. After he was released, he gave official interviews where he describes rope and sticks. When his friends and family who had heard the first version of this story asked why it changed, he became irritated and refused to talk about it. For years after, whenever the subject came up, he would get angry and storm off.
Read the whole story here...
http://www.nicap.org/rosbraz.htm
Every time I see that, it’s like I’ve never seen it before...
Why would it still be classified? ...
Project looking glass???
Cool! Beautiful area. The alien thing brings tourists. I stopped just to get a slice of Americana.
We visited the museum some years ago, expecting it to be full of hype and was pleasantly surprised at how even-handed they were.
In the late '90s I read a book titled "The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know" and thought it another "They're here!" expose.
It turned out it was the opposite, with the author doing a scathing expose about the sheer b/s that built up around the incident, pointing out that the story didn't break until the 1970s when someone approached Stanton Friedman at a UFO conference and told him about Jesse Marcel.
What had made me a believer was the mortician claiming the Air Force called asking if he had any "child-size" caskets. Turns out the guy fabricated the whole story, including his talk with a mythical nurse** who had seen the "bodies".
The author (Kal Korff) made the perceptive comment that peoples' memories about the "Crash" improved with age rather than fade and was constantly embellished with new, changing recollections.
A chapter at the end makes a convincing case that the "UFO" was a secret balloon (Project Mogul), one of a series, sent up to drift over the Soviet Union and "sniff" the air for nuclear explosion residue (they didn't get the bomb until 1949). The CIA stepped on it's own crank and knowing no one would accept the "weather balloon" excuse, used the UFO crash as a cover-up.
The debris shown in that famous photo were the remains of radar reflectors (shown underneath the balloon) and the "hieroglyphics" were moon-like crescents, flower petal shapes, etc. that were use by the contractor (a toy company, believed to be Mattel) to decorate the tape used to hold the radar reflecting paper to the wood sticks.
**As just an example, the mortician said the nurse had sketched what the aliens looked like on a table napkin which he kept, then "accidentally threw out" when Stanton Friedman came to interview him. He said the nurse later died in an aircraft crash (no record of it) . . . or "maybe she might have gone into a nunnery and took a vow of silence".
You can't make this stuff up.
Before the True Believers jump on me, read the frigging book - I'm not getting into a spitting contest with you.
[Sidebar] To make a long story even longer, if I had been running the museum, I'd have a guy dressed as an alien come down the stairs, papers in hand, and say "Hey Eddie, the General Ledger doesn't balance" - and watch the people freak out.
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