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."
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Bless you and all, but I wouldn't rationally believe a word you say unless I was looking over the shoulders of the eyewitnesses themselves!
I only know what I've seen, and I sparingly rule despite that, that it is possible that other people have seen things.
What I saw is what I saw, and under pain of whatever, that's what I saw, and can comment not on anything else with any surety. I saw a cylinder. Period.
Knock it off.
Whose fact?
Atually, for a change, the media did a good job.
It was all over the media shortly after the story was put out by the government.
It's in all the decent research on the government's story.
I'd have thought you'd be aware of such a basic, straightforward fact about the topic which you made such a strong statement on.
The government made itself look very silly for anyone looking deeper than the plastic wrap on that story.
I used to be heavily into this UFO stuff. What I found is that everyone knew these "facts" like the dummies but no one could ever point to the original data. The links all seemed to point back to the same people making the statements. That's when I started thinking it was bunk.
There has been some of that phenomenon, true.
That's not the case on the dummies in the Mogul proj. I'll see if I can track down a source or three later.
Actually, I think that phenomenon was not as widespread as you seemed to experience it as. I saw it mostly in say some sequences regarding Roswell etc. But in the broad topic area, I think there are plenty of direct sources who had first hand experiences in their jobs or otherwise.
Stephen Greer's DISCOVERY PROJECT certainly has plenty of the latter.
I would be much happer with a description that described the angle of view and duration of the observation. The moon, for example, appears subjectively to cover a significant portion of the sky, but I am always shocked to hear what the actual coverage is.
LOL.....As a New Mexican I have decided that no one runs this place, it runs you
It is certainly a varied, complex and interesting set of social, governmental, military and natural forces.
I agree completely. :-)
To this day, I don't know who or what was piloting the cylinder.
To anyone who thinks we are the only life amongst kazillions of stars, planets, and galaxies, maybe it was humanity from the future, who knows?
They don't keep that mum really, at least in certain settings... like talking to an old friend or relative over many beers. But you aren't going to have many get in front of cameras saying much about the topic. These are agressive, ambitious and loyal people. They aren't gong to rock the boat for many reasons.
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