What Really Happened in Roswell
Introduction
When people hear the name Roswell, they do not think of a desert town known for livestock, cotton, petroleum, and natural gas. Instead, they immediately think of UFOs and government cover-ups. When I first heard about the Roswell UFO incident I remember feeling both frightened by the idea of space aliens and at the same time excited that there could be other intelligent life in the universe. I wanted to explore and come to my own conclusions about the event that happened in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947. Did aliens truly visit Roswell and was there a massive government cover-up of this visitation?
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In fact, many of the accounts contradict each other and rely on memories of people from over thirty years before. Because of this, I found it difficult to believe most of the stories. "For example, Friedman used secondhand stories of a government engineer Barney Barnett and some unidentified archeology students from an unknown university to back up another startling discovery" (Sobel). According to these sources, dead extraterrestrial aliens were also found in the desert of Roswell. Marcel never mentioned any alien bodies lying near the wreckage and neither did the Brazel family. He also added that the rest of the saucer landed at a crash site in a town called Corona, ninety miles northwest of Roswell and that a second saucer crashed 150 miles away in San Augustin, New Mexico. He believed two saucers crashed in midair, scattering debris and bodies over a wide area. Soon, a supposed eyewitness, Gerald F. Anderson, contacted Friedman to support his claim. According to him, he came upon the craft with its alien corpses scattered in the sand when he was rock climbing with his family: “There was a big gouge mark where it had cut a furrow across the arroyo....That’s when my brother said, ‘That’s a goddamn spaceship! Them’s Martians! (Sobel 96).” Friedman published Anderson’s account, though no eyewitnesses ever backed up this story. Friedman’s work sparked the interest of other …show more content…
The Center for UFO Studies (CUFOS) and the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON), two major UFO societies, disagreed on views of the various scenarios, theories, explanations that were presented by Randle and Schmitt and were presented by Friedman and Berliner. "Hundreds of people were interviewed by the various researchers, but people point out that only a few of the people who were interviewed claimed to have seen debris or aliens. Most witnesses were repeating the claims and stories of others" (Wikipedia 2.3.1). Of the 90 people who were interviewed for the book The Roswell Incident, by Charles Berlitz, the testimony of only 25 people appears in the book, and only seven people saw the debris and five handled the debris. Pflock, in the book Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe, makes a similar point about Randle and Schmitt's book UFO Crash at Roswell. Approximately 271 people are listed in the book who were interviewed and this number does not include those who chose to remain anonymous. Overall more than 300 witnesses were interviewed. Of these 300 individuals, only 41 can be considered first or second hand witnesses to the events at Roswell or at the Fort Worth Army Air Field, and only 23 can be thought to have seen debris recovered from Ranch. Of these, only seven have asserted anything
Aside from the immediate attention the crash garnered in 1947, from the time of the crash in 1947 to the early 1980s, there was little to no knowledge of Roswell theories. Televisions were still a relatively new invention which had not
Roswell is perhaps one of the most famous alien reportings that has sparked the interest of many humans. The so claimed UFO pieces of debris that were found near Roswell, New Mexico were actually the remains of a military balloon. History, an informational website reveals that, “Project Mogul used sturdy, high-altitude balloons to carry low-frequency sound sensors into the tropopause, a faraway part of the Earth’s atmosphere that acts as a sound channel.” At the time, the U.S. military was
In 1947 a UFO was seen near the town of Roswell, New Mexico. It was
Area 51 and the Roswell crash have been at the center of UFO watchers and conspiracy theorists for decades, and for obvious reasons. Roswell sparked a flame that doesn’t seem to go out, it all started as an unknown object crashed near a town in the middle of nowhere. Roswell is a small town in New Mexico, “about 75 miles from the town of Roswell, New Mexico, a rancher named Mac Brazel” found a crashed object and claimed it looked
Any discussion on this conspiracy, however, will not be complete without talking what went and goes on in Roswell, New Mexico, or better known as Area 51. Area 51 is known to be a US Military Base where 75 miles away, there reported to be a UFO crash landing on July 2, 1947 that left an exceptional amount of debris all over the area. The Roswell Army Air Field reported that they recovered a “flying disc” but a few hours after this information was released, the government immediately said it was a “weather balloon.” RAAF even reported having recovered alien bodies but as expected, the government denied again and simply stated that it was the military men’s trauma from accidents. Countless witnesses during and after the reported crash date have confirmed seeing flying objects, crop circles and usual activity within the area. Area 51 is now conspired to be a place where they examine evidences of alien bodies, UFO crashes, etc, but the government refuses to confirm and have denied these allegations. More than sightings, as promised, let me take you in on one of the craziest abduction stories.
On November 5th, 1975 one of the most interesting UFO case took place in northeastern Arizona. 7 people workers were driving when they saw a luminous object shape of a flat disk hovering close to their truck on a dirt road. One of the witnesses, Travis Walton got out of the car and started walking to the object. While he was looking at the object a bluish light flashed and hit Travis Walton. The crew started to run a way from the scene. One of the crew members saw the object hover and left with great speed. 5 days later Walton appeared again confused. After this happened the crew members were taken to a lying machine to see if they were telling the truth and the tests said they were telling the truth. Sergeant Charles L Moody was in the Alamogordo area of New Mexico on August 13, 1975. It was about 1:30 when the incident happened when he was going to observe a meteor shower. Then, he noticed a strange bright orange light.it was falling to Earth. The object stopped before it hit the ground. The metallic object stopped around 20 meters of the ground. He noticed the object was 50 meters long and 20 meters wide. It began to move to him, he also noticed that there was human like shadows on the windows. He raced to his car but his car wasn't working. He heard a high pitched humming sound and he felt his body going numb. After a few moments, he got up and saw the aircraft leave. He rushed to his car went home to notice that it was already 3:00 am. After all of this happened he had back pain and a leash on his back. He attempted self-hypnosis to try to figure all of this out. After 3 weeks he finally figured what happened to him. He said that his body went numb and that the aliens tried to communicate with him. They were six feet tall and were gray. He said that his leader was shorter than both of them. The
Many people believe this story is too outlandish to believe. This is the strategy that The Foreign Technology Desk decided to go for. Between the time of the Roswell crash and the beginning of The Foreign Technology Desk, the Air Force had branched off from the Army, taking artifacts with it. This added another layer to difficulty to keeping the story secret. At first, the military blew off the Roswell crash as a weather balloon and threatened majority of the eye witnesses. This had kept them quiet for a while but people eventually talk. The military decided to stop covering it up and would leak little bits of information to people who would make something out of it. Corso states, “This was called camouflage with limited exposure” (85). This was in order to make the talking witnesses to look like nut jobs. If they denied it like it was nothing, then the media thought it was nothing. Eventually tabloids would buy the stories and then the credibility was lost. This built an alien
What happened at Roswell and why did the government hind it. Who found the object? What did the army do with it at that time? What did the government do?
I am sure that everyone of you have heard about aliens and UFOs. Indeed, we all have heard about the famous case of aliens and UFOs in Roswell, New Mexico. Most people might be interested in the topic of aliens, but I know that the majority of you just think of it as rumours and the existence of them are impossible. Therefore, I am standing here in front all of you to make you change your perspective. I am strongly confident that I have found the evidence of their real existence to convince all of you.
After years of denting there being a program the pentagon decided to confirm there was a program “The Pentagon has officially confirmed that there was, in fact, a $22 million government program to collect and analyze “anomalous aerospace threats” — government-speak for UFOs.” The most known story about an alien occurrence is one that occurred in new mexico. “Brazel, a farmer, discovered metallic rods, pieces of plastic and silvery paper scraps in Roswell, N.M., in 1947. He called the sheriff, who called the military, who carted the debris off in armored vehicles.” The government obviously tried covering this up by saying “The Air Force claimed it was using high-altitude balloons to try to detect Soviet nuclear tests.”
The Roswell incident is one of the most publicized and well-known accounts of a possible UFO crash in the world. Perhaps the greatest evidence that a UFO did indeed crash near Roswell, is the wide scale military cover up that took place after the crash. This along with numerous eyewitness accounts of the crash site, prove that what ever
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