Do you think aliens crashed at Roswell?

Answer 1

Try reading The Day After Roswell by Colonel Philip j. Corso. If you know anything about technology and history, this is the book for you. It will let you form an opinion of your own with some degree of certainty. Generally where there is smoke there is fire, and there is a lot of smoke there.

Answer 2

Toward the end of the Second World War, the Luftwaffe (German Air Force) was developing all sorts of experimental aircraft in the hope of coming up with something cheap and easy to build that would rob the allied bomber forces of their increasing superiority.

Most of these ideas were impractical, but a few went into production. One of these was the Messerchmidt ME-163, a compact, highly streamlined tailless airplane that went into action under the name "Komet."

This little ship was designed by the brilliant designer Wille Messerschmidt, and was built, surprisingly out of plywood and aluminized fabric, to save strategic materials. It was powered by a simple liquid fuel rocket engine that was the distant antecedant of the engines in the Space Shuttle.

The idea was that the Komet could take off from any runway or even a grass field and climb nearly straight up in a very short time to an altitude higher than the ceiling of any allied fighter of the time. Then the little ship could glide into position above a flight of attacking allied bombers and dive at a very high speed onto the formation of bombers.

The Komets were equipped with machine guns and could shoot down a B-17 or a Lancaster with just a few well-placed rounds. The Komet was very compact, being only about 16 feet long and having a wingspan of about 25 feet.

The chief drawback of the Komet was in the fuels used for the rocket engine. The engine used potassium permanganate and concentrated hydrogen peroxide. These ignited spontaneously on contact and burned violently. Concentrated H2O2 unfortunately also spontaneously oxidizes almost any organic material, including the pilot. There were many accidents and many fatalities resulting from the inflammatory nature of these fuels.

At the end of the war, there were a number of ME-163 Komets abandoned on Luftwaffe air bases, and the allies made an effort to secure as many of them as possible, both to keep them out of the hands of the Russians and to bring them back to the States for research purposes.

One of the research facilities used for test flights with the recovered Komets was what is now called by some people "Area 51" near Roswell NM. There were numerous research flights conducted out of that facility during the late 1940s for the purpose of evaluating the rocket propulsion system and the performance and usefulness of a small rocket plane.

The "mystery" of Roswell in 1947 was nothing more than a crash landing of one of these little research planes. The explosion was violent and the remains of the aircraft were scattered and distorted. The pilot's body was badly burned, and probably at least partly dismembered.

It was upon this scene that the uneducated and frightened local residents burst in the early morning gloom. They saw what was obviously a flying craft of some kind unlike anything they had ever imagined, and made of what seemed like some very strange materials. Aluminized fabric was actually in wide use in industry at the time, but was not familiar to large numbers of people.

Also, they saw a badly disfigured body, or perhaps only parts of one. All of these things are easily explained, as you have just read. At the time, and in the face of the national wave of fear that characterized the early years of the Cold War, some people let their imaginations run wild.

For reasons that have never been understood by those who were in the know at the time, the authorities saw fit to misinform and disinform the citizenry and continued to cloud the history of this simple event in such a way that it has become more of a legendary war story than anyone would have expected.

The silly, amateurish film of the "alien autopsy" that circulated after this was unrelated to the real events, and is really too absurd to be paid any real attention.

For more information on the ME-163, do an internet search on "ME-163." At a glance you will see why most people would have thought they had seen a space ship.

Answer 3

Of course not - any contact what so ever with an alien life form would be the greatest event in mankind's entire history.
No government could possibly cover up an event like that.

This rumor should be filed away with Bigfoot sightings, the Lock Ness monster and fake moon landings.

Answer 4

no. I think a secret weather balloon crashed, and in order to steer the public opinion, the US Govt. "leaked" that it was aliens.

Answer 5

Yes. From that UFO, scientific discovered the transistor, the LASER beam and other as the integrated circuits, the use of titanium in spacecrafts.

Answer 6

Sure
and that Elvis is still alive living it up in Alabama and
that our government caused the demolition of the Twin Towers and that Hitler was framed by the Jews..........

Answer 7

Of COURSE not! They didn't *crash*, they just want you to think that, to divert attention from the anal probes.

Answer 8

no alien crash

Answer 9

Probably not but I wish they had.

Answer 10

No