The Roswell UFO incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, which have since become the subject of intense speculation and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened, and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has evolved into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFO and likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) issued a press release stating that personnel from the field's 509th Bomb Group had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a ranch near Roswell, sparking intense media interest. Later the same day, the Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force stated that in fact, a weather balloon had been recovered by RAAF personnel, rather than a "flying disc."[1] A subsequent press conference was called, featuring debris said to be from the crashed object that seemed to confirm the weather balloon description. The case was quickly forgotten and almost completely ignored, even by UFO researchers, for more than 30 years. Then, in 1978, ufologist Stanton T. Friedman interviewed Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved with the original recovery of the debris in 1947. Marcel expressed his belief that the military had covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story circulated through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time.[2] In February 1980, The National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident.
Additional witnesses and reports emerged over the following years. They added significant new details, including claims of a large military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, as many as 11 crash sites,[2] and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.[3]
In response to these reports, and after congressional inquiries, the General Accounting Office launched an inquiry and directed the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force to conduct an internal investigation. The result was summarized in two reports. The first, released in 1995, concluded that the reported recovered material in 1947 was likely debris from a secret government program called Project Mogul.[4] The second report, released in 1997, concluded that reports of recovered alien bodies were likely transformed memories of military accidents involving injured or killed personnel, and the recovery of anthropomorphic dummies in military programs like Project High Dive, conducted in the 1950s. The psychological effects of time compression and confusion about when events occurred explained the discrepancy with the years in question. These reports were dismissed by UFO proponents as being either disinformation or simply implausible, though significant numbers of UFO researchers discount the probability that any alien craft was in fact involved.
On July 8, 1947, reports emerged from the Roswell Army Air Field that a "flying disc" had been recovered. The following historical account reconstructs a timeline of events as described and recorded in initial news reports and several contemporary telexes.
2007-03-07 17:48:18
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answered by smart_shailendra 2
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The Roswell UFO incident involved the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, in July 1947, which have since become the subject of intense speculation and research. There are widely divergent views on what actually happened, and passionate debate about what evidence can be believed. The United States military maintains that what was recovered was a top-secret research balloon that had crashed. However, many UFO proponents believe the wreckage was of a crashed alien craft and that the military covered up the craft's recovery. The incident has evolved into a widely-recognized and referenced pop culture phenomenon, and for some, Roswell is synonymous with UFO and likely ranks as the most famous alleged UFO incident.
2007-03-07 15:48:17
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answered by JJ 4
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Roswell has become the most publicized of all alleged UFO incidents. The Roswell UFO incident occured in the U.S. on July 7th 1947, when a flying object crashed on a farm near Roswell, New Mexico. US Government attributed the crashed object as a U.S. military surveillance balloon but un-officially statements declared the object was a spacecraft containing extraterrestrial life.
There were different statements from different authorities. The US Army maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was junk from the crash of an experimental surveillance balloon, that was a top secret program named Mogul.
Some others UFO exponents maintain that it was an alien craft. Next Day of the incident, Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) official Walter Haut, stated that they had recovered a flying disk. Another statement came from the Commanding General of the 8th Air Force Roger Ramey. He stated that it was a weather balloon that was recovered by the RAAF.
2013-10-02 19:06:43
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answered by ? 1
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for my area it particularly is a genuine tale. On each and all the web pages the place ufos crashed or landed militia started controlling those aspects. and there's a documentry i watched and is the reason evrything as an occasion how we gotbullet evidence jackets from them. tens of millions of folk international huge have self belief that alien exist there is sufficient evidence to help it yet government. in simple terms would not pick to settle for it.. there are hundreds of alien craft sightings international huge you could no longer say that all of them are made up or everytime people misunderstand balloons as alien craft.
2016-11-23 14:39:10
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answered by Anonymous
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JJ has most of it, but the Greys WANTED to crash to let us know of their existence. The crew knew their ship was going to crash and they were going to die, but they did it for the greater good of their people. They succeeded in one way, but the military stepped in and initiated a cover up. Because of their technology, they returned to collect the wreckage (or at least most of it) and the bodies of their fallen comrades. THAT is why there's no "official" wreckage of the UFO and why the military insists it was a weather balloon.
It all depends on your point of view really. Of course, it's not easy for a government to admit that a race of technologically superior beings from a world and time far beyond our own are able to slip past our defenses and pick people up and experiment on them.
2007-03-07 17:22:59
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answered by Lizzie 4
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Try a google search. You'll get tons of information that will take you well into old age to read.
2007-03-07 17:02:03
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answered by Scarp 3
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