Steely Dan Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 June 24: General Interest 1997 : U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell On this day in 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the atomic age caused many Americans to turn their attention to the skies. The town of Roswell, located near the Pecos River in southeastern New Mexico, became a magnet for UFO believers due to the strange events of early July 1947, when ranch foreman W.W. Brazel found a strange, shiny material scattered over some of his land. He turned the material over to the sheriff, who passed it on to authorities at the nearby Air Force base. On July 8, Air Force officials announced they had recovered the wreckage of a "flying disk." A local newspaper put the story on its front page, launching Roswell into the spotlight of the public's UFO fascination. The Air Force soon took back their story, however, saying the debris had been merely a downed weather balloon. Aside from die-hard UFO believers, or "ufologists," public interest in the so-called "Roswell Incident" faded until the late 1970s, when claims surfaced that the military had invented the weather balloon story as a cover-up. Believers in this theory argued that officials had in fact retrieved several alien bodies from the crashed spacecraft, which were now stored in the mysterious Area 51 installation in Nevada. Seeking to dispel these suspicions, the Air Force issued a 1,000-page report in 1994 stating that the crashed object was actually a high-altitude weather balloon launched from a nearby missile test-site as part of a classified experiment aimed at monitoring the atmosphere in order to detect Soviet nuclear tests. On July 24, 1997, barely a week before the extravagant 50th anniversary celebration of the incident, the Air Force released yet another report on the controversial subject. Titled "The Roswell Report, Case Closed," the document stated definitively that there was no Pentagon evidence that any kind of life form was found in the Roswell area in connection with the reported UFO sightings, and that the "bodies" recovered were not aliens but dummies used in parachute tests conducted in the region. Any hopes that this would put an end to the cover-up debate were in vain, as furious ufologists rushed to point out the report's inconsistencies. With conspiracy theories still alive and well on the Internet, Roswell continues to thrive as a tourist destination for UFO enthusiasts far and wide, hosting the annual UFO Encounter Festival each July and welcoming visitors year-round to its International UFO Museum and Research Center. _______________________________________________________________ First, the dropping mannequins that the air force claims were mistaken for alien bodies actually occurred from 1956 to 1960 as part of "Operation High Dive" from Holliman Air Force Base. OHD was a program to see what would happen to pilots who had to eject from a very high altitude. However, this program didn't start until nine years after the Roswell crash sightings. IMO, that makes things more hinky than an actual answer. Many people have come forward with stories of strange metals being brought home that were only confiscated by Air Force officials. The problem with verifying all of these eye witness reports is that the supposed alien crash is Roswell's economy. If it weren't for the thousands of people who flock there year in and year out they would probably just be another small town that nobody would visit. In addition to the horsehockey attempt to explain the bodies is that there was an actual, verified, report of a saucer recovery and alien bodies. Many wonder why the government would cover this up. That's just so obvious to me it seems to be a silly question. If they recovered technology way beyond what we are capable of it seems obvious that they really wouldn't want anyone to know about it. I have seen an unidentified flying object. What I saw goes beyond any man made capability that I know of or can conceive of. What I saw was triangular and had a red light in the center. It hovered without a sound and I was roughly 400 yards from it. When it began to move across the sky it again was completely silent. What was it? I don't know? It was, as I said, beyond any capability I believe anyone on earth posses'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Hindsight Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I believe Aliens have been visiting us for thousands of years. JMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EndZoneCrew Posted June 24, 2009 Share Posted June 24, 2009 I have seen an unidentified flying object. link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted June 24, 2009 Author Share Posted June 24, 2009 link? This is the best answer I have for that question. Linky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 Being from Buffalo, when I read the thread title, I thought "What does the Air Force have to do with Roswell Park?" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 Being from Buffalo, when I read the thread title, I thought "What does the Air Force have to do with Roswell Park?" They put in a landing strip for alien aircraft in it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/dev/null Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 I have seen an unidentified flying object. I saw a UFO once when I was a kid. In hindsight I think it was a stealth fighter, this was a couple years before the program was announced But at the time it was unidentified Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steely Dan Posted June 25, 2009 Author Share Posted June 25, 2009 I saw a UFO once when I was a kid. In hindsight I think it was a stealth fighter, this was a couple years before the program was announced But at the time it was unidentified I believe a lot of people did that back then. That is thinking it was another planets ship. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wacka Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 If you see a stealth fighter from the front at a distance , it does look like a UFO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shrader Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 This is the best answer I have for that question. Linky I would've gone with this: Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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