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Roswell Conspiracy

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What really happened in Roswell?
For more than 60 years, the debate between reality and conspiracy has raged on with the concept of aliens in the center(History.com Staff). In Roswell, New Mexico in 1947 what is believed by conspiracy theorists to be a flying saucer was found in a rancher’s sheep pasture. The idea that exterrestrial life could possibly exist may seem out of this world to some. But, to an entire town of people, the idea is not as far fetched.
So, what are aliens? Aliens are exterrestrial beings that allegedly live in outer space and did not originate from Earth. Outer space is incomprehensibly massive. The galaxy in which human beings live is referred to as the Milky Way, and there are an estimated 100 billion planets in that one galaxy alone(SPACE.com Staff). Seth Shostak, an American astronomer and a Senior Astronomer for the SETI Institute, argues, "If we are the only intelligent beings in the galaxy, or for that matter in the universe, then we are truly a miracle." According to SETI.org, The SETI Institute is a research organization whose mission is to …show more content…

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

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