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Flying saucers in New Mexico? Governor rekindles Roswell
sfgate ^ | Monday, August 16, 2004 | Keay Davidson

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."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: 1947; airforce; alienautopsy; aliens; autopsy; balloon; billrichardson; bizarre; blackhelicopters; conspiracy; coverup; crash; excuses; extraterrestrial; flyingdisk; flyingsaucer; incident; iwanttobelieve; newmexico; newworldorder; reynoldswrap; richardson; roswell; roswellcrash; roswellincident; sighting; spacealien; thetruthisoutthere; tinfoilhat; ufo; ufocrash; ufosighting; unexplained; weather; xfile; xfiles
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To: StolarStorm

Are you saying that shuttle astronauts have seen these phenomena and are keeping mum in public?


61 posted on 08/17/2004 6:40:36 PM PDT by churchillbuff
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To: Solamente; StolarStorm

I've never witnessed a UFO, but I know three folks who have. All of them credible (to me, at least). I don't need to see a kangaroo with my own eyes to believe that they exist.


62 posted on 08/17/2004 6:43:54 PM PDT by Marie (Please don't feed the trolls.)
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To: Grut
This is perfectly reasonable Governor-stuff: a tourist dollar is a tourist dollar; it doesn't matter why they come so long as they do come, and spend....

Bingo.

63 posted on 08/17/2004 6:50:53 PM PDT by Cooter
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To: demlosers
 There are as many theories as there are official explanations...




 


64 posted on 08/17/2004 6:57:33 PM PDT by Fintan (Geez, I had no idea ALL women washed their hair on Friday nights...)
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To: Solamente

Cool story!


65 posted on 08/17/2004 6:59:51 PM PDT by Ditter
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To: demlosers

I always like a good flying saucer or Big Foot story. Never believed in the darn things but the stories are fun.


66 posted on 08/17/2004 7:03:52 PM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS (Further, the statement assumed)
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To: okstate

"I thought we already knew it was a weather balloon. "

I can debunk the weather balloon explanation with this.

Major Jesse Marcel was the Intel Officer of the Only Atomically armed Bomb wing (The 509th) in the world at the time.

Major Marcel made the initial observation that it was not "ours". Furthermore he was very adamant that the material he had in his hands was like no other metal he had ever seen before. It had properties to it that no metal we know of today has.

Now, if Major Marcel had made such a GLARING mistake as to misidentify a Weather Balloon (something that went up from Roswell Army Air Field daily) for a UFO, then my question is this.

Why was he not immediately given a compentancy hearing and either forced to resign or at the very least reassigned to another unit?

This was the Intellignence officer of an Atomic Bomb Wing for christ's sake. This was not a simple mistake, this was a glaring case of incompetance from the word go.

However, Major Marcel was not forced to resign, was not given a comptenancy hearing and was not reassigned as a result of this. He was in fact eventually promoted and he eventually left the service.

His boy is a Veterinarian in Montana and has refuted the Govt's claims on many occassions. He saw some of the material that was brought home by his father and to this day has never seen it's equal.

I dont' know what crashed out there in the desert near Roswell, but I can tell you what it wasn't.

It was not a weather balloon.

It wasn't MOGUL either, that secret project had material in it's makeup very similar to what weather balloons used. The MOGUL explanation recently released by the AF is just as much hooey as the original explanation.

Right now Mogul is the official explanation, but it holds no water with the eyewitness accounts nor the the physical evidence that the Air Force claimed it had in 1947.


67 posted on 08/17/2004 7:05:26 PM PDT by Leatherneck_MT (Goodnight Chesty, wherever you may be.)
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To: Marie; Solamente
Ditto, Marie. My husband and his son, about eight years old at the time, saw one in the summer of 1977 near Castle AFB, which is by Merced in California's Central Valley. Several neighbors saw it too, he's told me. It was a saucer, shaped like an upside-down pie plate with windows, silently gliding above the homes in the neighborhood around treetop level. Husband's son said, "Hey, Dad, look, there's a flying saucer!" It made no noise, it was about two houses away, twirling and banking and going down the street. Folks in the backyard across the street spotted it, too.

They watched it float around for a bit, then it took off and turned into a point of light that was ... a star. It was dusk, and stars were beginning to show. They hung around outside for as long as they could watching the star ... and it was just a star.

Husband doesn't talk about it much, never has, but when I've gotten him to discuss it, it basically boils down to this: he struggled because he'd seen something supposedly physically impossible and by definition unbelievable ... yet he knew what he saw. They saw what they saw. The damned thing had windows, for crying out loud!

He was then faced with either having to convince himself that he didn't see what he and fellow witnesses saw ... or he had to face a truth that was just as scary -- that he did see it. Essentially what it did was make him realize that just because "science" or common sense or whatever says something -- like a noiseless anti-gravity machine -- is physically impossible, it isn't neccessarily true. So he has gone on to do "impossible" things, including designing a large structure that engineers told him repeatedly, would not stand up. They were wrong, he was right ... the thing has been up, standing, and operating successfully since 1994 and we hope for many decades more.

The understanding that "impossible" is subjective and illusionary, was what came out of his sighting of the thing.

Solamente and other folks who've seen what others seem to think you only "believe in" -- how has it affected your views of "conventional" reality?

68 posted on 08/17/2004 7:10:47 PM PDT by Finny (God continue to Bless President G.W. Bush with wisdom, popularity, and victory.)
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To: demlosers
The whole notion of aliens visiting Earth is ridiculous. If there was a civilization out there so advanced that they could master interstellar travel, they would have no interest in visiting us - a hopelessly primitive society by their standards.
69 posted on 08/17/2004 7:11:20 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Vietnam vets kept silent as they were maligned...the time has come to set the record straight)
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To: SamAdams76
The whole notion of aliens visiting Earth is ridiculous. If there was a civilization out there so advanced that they could master interstellar travel, they would have no interest in visiting us - a hopelessly primitive society by their standards.

If there were a civilization out there so advanced that they could master interstellar travel, then we would be utterly unable to comprehend their motives for visiting us. The Hawaiians had no idea why Captain Cook had come there.

70 posted on 08/17/2004 7:25:47 PM PDT by SedVictaCatoni
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To: Solamente
>>Nonsense! Tens of thousands of independent observers have probably just been mistaken.

I swear to GOD that I am telling the truth. I am willing to trade my membership on this forum for it.

Relax, I was being sarcastic :)

71 posted on 08/17/2004 7:27:52 PM PDT by SedVictaCatoni
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To: Finny

Weekly World News is the best, lol.


72 posted on 08/17/2004 7:50:15 PM PDT by okstate
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To: demlosers; andysandmikesmom; areafiftyone; bigfootbob; Ecliptic; El Sordo; Ghengis; ...

Sounds to me like Richardson is the point man preparing the path for what Werner von Braun warned about--now that the war on terror and the war on Iraq are well along--the next scheduled one being the war against ET in space.

He's certainly connected with enough Billdo cronies to know something.

Interesting.


73 posted on 08/17/2004 8:01:22 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: demlosers; Quix; Smartass; Happy2BMe
Maybe Bill will help out!


74 posted on 08/17/2004 8:07:07 PM PDT by potlatch (Sometimes I think I understand everything, then I regain consciousness.)
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To: BenLurkin

Keep them. You never know when you can turn them over for some big bucks on eBay.


75 posted on 08/17/2004 8:10:48 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Did I mention I'm peddling a book?)
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To: Finny
I didn't realize aliens were into metrosexuals. And ugly ones at that.
76 posted on 08/17/2004 8:12:10 PM PDT by Mike Bates (Did I mention I'm peddling a book?)
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To: doug9732

Welllllllllllllll, that makes clear how much solid research on the topic you have

NOT

done!

And, evidently you also do not have a close relative who worked around such craft daily in Nevada.

Some of us no longer have the luxury of not believing.


77 posted on 08/17/2004 8:14:41 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: AlbertWang

Actually, the recent research study involving I think it was archeologists from UNM and several testing labs around the country demonstrated that metal etc. fragments picked up from there DID

have very, very

uncommon compositions unheared of or unknown before by any of the labs.


78 posted on 08/17/2004 8:16:06 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: Solamente

NO trouble believing your story totally.

A reasonably common form and size as I understand them.


79 posted on 08/17/2004 8:20:45 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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To: SedVictaCatoni

There's argument about whether there was one crash or 3 crashes in a relatively short time that year in the same general area.

And, supposedly one ET did survive for some time from at least one of the crashes. Some claim a 2nd was alive when they first got to the site but expired shortly thereafter. But I may be mixing crashes up.


80 posted on 08/17/2004 8:22:39 PM PDT by Quix (PRAYER WARRIORS, DO YOUR STUFF! LIVES AND NATIONS DEPEND ON IT)
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