Radar Controllers At White Sands

Late one summer night in July of 1947, a couple saw a large glowing object quickly fly across the sky. It was later reported that a weather balloon crashed nearby. People have often wondered if it actually was a weather balloon, and some have believed it to be a downed alien craft that the government covered up. Theories about a Roswell coverup did not become widely known to the American public until a few decades after the crash. This change in public knowledge demonstrates the variability of conspiracy theories--some become popular immediately following the events they try to explain, and some can take years to catch on. From the crash in Roswell in 1947 to current day, America’s public knowledge of theories about Roswell has grown at an unsteady pace, driven by the types of technology used to disseminate information. America’s knowledge of the Roswell incident has developed in three phases. First, immediately after the crash in 1947, there was some attention given to the crash, but it was mostly local news reports. Second, after the testimony in 1984 of an eyewitness who was a major in the air force, conspiracies blossomed. Finally, after interest diminished had begun to diminish, the internet ignited another increase in Roswell theories.

Edward Nugent was not the only one to see this mysterious sighting. He saw some thought-intriguing crafts in the air as his description was nothing of the technology we had then or now. His characterization of the craft was “bright orange, I can’t tell what’s behind it” (N/A, 1952).

¨Sightings within 500 feet are subclassified as various types of ¨close encounters¨( Hynek 41.) There has been over 104,947 sightings in a decade. There was a sighting back in the 1600s when John Winthrop had unusual writing in his diary about a ¨great light in the nighttime sky”( Hynek 32.) In September 19, 1976 people in Tehran, Iran saw an unidentified flying object around twelve am. Systems started to fail when the unidentified flying object was twenty miles away. Most sightings have been reported in Roswell, New Mexico. In the year 1947, a balloon was seen crashing into the land of a nearby ranch near Roswell, New Mexico but theories say otherwise. Multiple accusations have been argued about it but, the real mystery, if it was just a United States Air Force balloon then why did they try to cover it up?

“No child had such an oversized balloon shaped head. It didn’t even look human, although it had human like features” (18). This is a description of an extraterrestrial from the Roswell incident in the book The Day After Roswell written by Col. Philip J. Corso (Ret.) with WIlliam J. Birnes. This book is quite the interesting read to say the least. Extraterrestrials, flying saucers, and “foreign technology” are some of the complications in Corso’s autobiography during his time in military intelligence working at The Pentagon. Corso describes everything between the events of a flying saucer crash that occurred in Roswell, NM. on July 4, 1947 to the modern day technology that the United States has managed to reverse engineer due to the crash.

After a hot humid day in July 1947, severe and violent thunderstorms filled the night sky. Long time farmer, Mac Brazel was used to thunder, and storms out in the country. Although something about this night was different. He heard an extremely loud crash, though didn’t think much of it. The next morning however, Brazel stumbled upon the debris of a strange object on his farm. Brazel brought some of the material to a nearby neighbor who urged him to report his find in hopes of getting a reward. Brazel informed the sheriff

The name of the person that found it was Mac Brazel and he lived just outside of Roswell, New Mexico(History.com para 1). The object he found look like something out of this world with metallic sticks held together with tape, chunks of plastic and a reflecting surface. After the find Mac called the police and in turn the police called the air base on the outside of town. Then the army came and toke it away in armored trucks then said it was a weather balloon. Many people said that it was a UFO or a undefined unidentified flying object. Mac was almost happy he got some

Millions of people have claimed to see or experience something paranormal and out of the ordinary. Even if most of them can be explained away, that still leaves a lot of unexplainable objects in the sky and unexplainable sightings of other worldly beings. UFO sightings have been reported all over the world, not just the U.S.A. A flying disc was seen by pilots, crew members, and a bunch of other people at the Chicago O'Hare Airport in November, 2006. The whole story was shown on CNN January 6, 2007.

In 1957, Gordon Cooper was flying over West Germany and claimed to have seen a UFO. Later, Cooper was the manager at the Edwards Air Force base. A couple of his crew

One of the strangest most frightening flying saucer sightings occurred in Flatwoods West Virginia on September 19 1952. Eddie May who was just 13 years old at the time and his brother Fred who was 12 were out walking on that dark misty night when they saw a round object dropping down through the sky amidst streams of fire. After the UFO disappeared behind some trees the boys ran to tell their mother what they had seen. Refusing to believe her sons’ story Mrs. May went outside and saw a red flashing light glowing on the hillside. Frightened she sent the boys to get help and they soon returned with Gene Lemon a young National Guardsman. Armed with only a flashlight Lemon led the May family and 3 other children up the hill.

In 1947 out in Roswell, New Mexico a rancher found some unknown debris in his sheep pasture. Though it was said from the local air force that it was from a crashed weather balloon. Others think it was from the remains of an Alien flying saucer. Though many believe it may be true and others believe it's false. This paper will show the incident at Roswell, New Mexico and how it is false.

Before the Roswell incident a then top secret task, called Project Mogul, was happening. Project Mogul involved high frequency balloons with the purpose of developing a long distance acoustic detection system to hear if the Soviet Union were detonating atomic bombs. The main site of the launching of the balloons was in Alamogordo Army Airfield in New Mexico. Many people believe the debris was a crashed weather balloon because the materials the rancher saw are similar to those of which the balloons were made.Also, balloons from the secret project plunging to the ground was not uncommon as the balloons regularly fell in random fields Detailed assessments of the weather the day the balloon crashed calculated the balloon was predicted to fly over the exact location it

This event had gave a kick of more than a half century of the conspiracy theories surrounding unidentified flying objects, in other words “UFOs”. Numerous witnesses reported seeing metallic debris scattered over a wide area and at least one reported seeing a blazing craft crossing the sky shortly before it had crashed. In recent years, witnesses have added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis claimed that he was involved in alien autopsies which were carried out at the Roswell air force base. This conspiracy theory has been said a million times by the U.S military repeatedly changing its story. Hours of the army telling reporters that it had recovered a crashed saucer, senior officer insisted that the only thing that has ever fallen from the sky was a weather balloon. A second report was released in 1997, concluding that alien bodies were likely a combination of innocently transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel, and the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military program like Project High Dive conducted in the 1950s. Since the late 1990s, the debate about Roswell has polarised with several former pro-UFO researchers concluding that the craft was indeed,

On the day of July 4, 1947, the blips appeared to be changing shape. As they moved back and forth on the radar, they seemed to be pulsating, glowing very bright and then dimming. The pattern of its movements suddenly changed as it darted to the lower left-hand quadrant of the screen, disappeared for a moment, and then exploded in a magnificent white fluorescent light and evaporated before the officers’ eyes. The radar screen was clear. The pulsating blips were gone. All the officers, radar controllers and CIC personnel, stared at each other with the same thought clawing in their minds; The object, whatever it

Around June 25th, 1947 a pilot, Ken Arnold had reported strange objects in the sky while flying near Mt. Rainer, Washington. He stated that they flew like "saucers being skipped over water." This was where the term "Flying Saucers" derived from. The Roswell UFO Incident all started on the evening of July 3, 1947, Dan Wilmot and his wife were

One example of physical evidence is the ‘OXCART’ spy plane, which had features that could easily allow it to be mistaken for a UFO. “The aircraft’s titanium body, moving as fast as a bullet, would reflect the sun’s rays and make anyone think, UFO.” Another example of physical evidence is the U-2 spy plane, which many features that could allow it to be mistaken as a UFO. “The reports of UFOs often came from pilots from commercial airliners in the early evening hours, with the U-2 plane’s silver wings reflecting the rays of the sun.” The last example of physical evidence is the S-71 Blackbird, which could fly extremely high, causing it to be mistaken for a UFO. “Area 51, known among spooks as ‘Paradise Ranch’, became headquarters for risky games of cold-war intrigue as the Americans surveilled its enemies and rivals from more than 60,000