Flying saucers in New Mexico? Governor rekindles Roswell

sfgate ^ | Monday, August 16, 2004 | Keay Davidson

[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."

[Dengar01]

I've got you all beat. I've got a tape of a Space Shuttle downlink showing one of these things... military, alien or whatever... I have no idea. Space debris that somehow changes direction 3 times, accelerates, and comes up from a lower orbit into the Shuttle's orbit and then does a fly by.

Notice how the NASA channel no longer shows footage from the space station anymore? It all happened when some weird objects kept appearing on the footage. NASA couldn't control it because it was live footage and now with TiVo anyone can record what they have seen.

[Fedora]

Thanks for sharing that! Sounds like an interesting experience, whatever the explanation. I bet being up in the Rockies must provide a nice view for stargazing!

[StolarStorm]

Was the object kind of hazy? The one I've seen (on a tape) was saucer shaped but rather hazy and moved very very fast. It's movements were almost a blur. There was a bit of oscillating movement.

[StolarStorm]

I'll have to ask about that as I don't work for NASA anymore. I haven't had access to the NASA channel on my local cable for a long time..

[Old Professer]

I had to look at that picture twice to be sure what the alien was jerking.

[potlatch]

LOL, someone else said the very same thing! I got it off the forum and never noticed that before!

[enraged]

Not sure exactly, I'll have to dig out the video. Seemed like it was a hand held shot out the portal of an object, unknown distance or size, zooming in and around the view....

[sonofatpatcher2]

Them ain't UFOs It is just Leela having some fun...

[Finny]

He says no, it wasn't hazy or blurry. It moved slowly, rotated slowly, only two houses away at treetop height.

[Nita Nupress]

That evening I was watching CNN when they played a story about mysterious lights that were seen the privious night all over the south. (All I really remember was Alabama, but they listed a few states.)

When I saw your interesting story back in August, I filed it away until I could get to it. I finally got to it and here's what I found. As is typical in these cases, it was attributed to a "meteor." :-)

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SHOW: Fox Report
December 06, 1999, Monday PM ET
Fox News Channel
Cable Programming START: 35.53
UFO. A strange light in the middle of the night was caught on tape in Alabama. A Univ of Alabama researcher says it could be light from a meteorite.
Visual - Strange phenomenon.
END: 36.40

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Fox Morning News
December 06, 1999, Monday AM
NETWORK: KTTV-TV

START: 31.41
UFO Lights. A surveillance camera in Alabama caught part of a UFO sighting. David Garcia reports.
Visual - Genesis III Publishing video of UFOs.
Interview - Lee Elders, UFO watcher, about continuing UFOs in the sky, and apparent intelligence in the sky, and objects seen stopping and hovering, and reactions of military groups in the sky.
Visual - The Phoenix lights, seen in 1997.
Interview - Brit Elders, sky watcher, about activities of UFOs.
Visual - Object in front of moon, other objects. The Elders say that Earth is not ready for intelligent contact as of yet.
END: 34.36

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SHOW: Fox 2 News Morning
December 06, 1999, Monday AM
NETWORK: WJBK-TV

START: 15:10
UFO/ A light streaking across the Alabama skies have many talking about different theories.
Visual - video of streak of light. Some say it was a meteor. Officials from the Natl. Weather Serv. says it seems so. They are investigating.
END: 15:31

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SHOW: Extra: The Entertainment Magazine
December 07, 1999, Tuesday PM PT
NETWORK: KNBC-TV

START: 01.09
Teased Segment - Mystery in Space. The Mars Polar Lander may be a $165 million bust, but today, there is a new mystery. There was a fire in the sky that terrified people across three states.
Visual - Store footage of the flashing light.
Interview - Residents talks about the sky lighting up like it was daylight.
Interview - Don Wolthrop, UFO expert, says that the tape is really interesting.
Visual - Clip of "Close Encounters of the Third Kind."
Interview - Wolthrop says that he has heard people talk of stories about seeing the bright light. There are several air force bases around the little town in Alabama, but they all say that they weren't running drills.
Interview - Dr. John Mosely, astronomer, says that the people apparently saw a large meteor explode in the air. Doug Bruckner reporting.
END: 03.04

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SHOW: Good Morning Arizona
December 06, 1999, Monday AM
NETWORK: KTVK-TV

START: 37.35
Teased Segment - Strange lights
Visual - Strange lights seen in the skies over Montgomery, Alabama. 911 operators flooded with UFO reports. National Weather service says witness accounts are consistant with meteor.
END: 37.50

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