"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.
Very well put. THX!