70 Years of the Roswell Case: What Do We Know About This Alleged UFO Accident?
If you are fond of conspiracy theories and stories related to alleged UFO sightings, then you are certainly familiar with the Roswell Case, one of the most famous UFO incidents of all time, which is turning 70 this month. Because, thinking about how much time has passed and how the case still arouses fascination, we at Mega Curioso decided to tell here what is known about what happened - in the early July of 1947. Embark with us on this brief time travel.
Intriguing Discovery
It all happened in the first week of July, when a man named WW “Mack” Brazel came across strange wreckage of what appeared to be a plane crash while riding his ranch in northwestern Roswell, New Mexico. According to the rancher, as it had been raining heavily the night before, he had gone out to check on his flock of sheep when he found metal fragments scattered over a large area, as well as traces that something had collided and dragged for hundreds of meters.
Brazel even collected some of the metal pieces he found and showed some friends and neighbors until he decided to report it to local sheriff George Wilcox. The police officer probably thought the wreckage might have some connection to military testing in the area and contacted Roswell Air Base personnel to assist with the investigation.
The military sent Major Jesse Marcel to find out what was going on, and accompanied by Brazel, Wilcox, and a member of the Counter Intelligence Corps - an agency linked to the US Secret Service - on July 7, 1947, Jesse stepped in the area of the alleged accident. During this preliminary survey, the major reportedly said that the object would probably have exploded near the ground and fallen into place and then determined the direction in which it was traveling.
Jesse also made estimates of the crash area and did some quick tests with metal parts - and rumored to have said he had never seen anything remotely like this before. It was not long before the airbase was started again and a wreck recovery operation was organized.
Then, the next day, July 8, 1947, the story came out on the cover of the Roswell Daily Record - entitled “Air Force Capturing Flying Saucer on Ranch in the Roswell Region” - and from then on, the whole thing fell. in the mouth of the people and spread throughout the world!
Rumors
After the news broke, several witnesses decided to speak publicly, such as William Woody, who reported that he and his father had seen a strange bright object plunge from the sky to the ground on the night of July 4 - prior to the discovery of the wreckage. They both said they had tried to find the crash site but were prevented by the military from searching Brazel's ranch.
Stories also circulated that the US military tracked the movement of an unidentified flying object over New Mexico for four days - until it crashed in northwest Roswell. Another rumor was that a guy named Glenn Dennis, who worked at a local funeral home, would have received some curious phone calls from the air base morgue.
Apparently the people there would have asked Glenn if he had small coffins that could be hermetically sealed. The officers also reportedly asked for information on how to preserve bodies that had been exposed to the elements for a few days and how to prevent contamination of cadaver tissue.
The undertaker said he had even reached the base, where he saw part of the wreckage, and was promptly asked to leave. Glenn said a base nurse reportedly told him that the military had discovered the bodies of alien beings in the alleged UFO fuselage.
As you may have read or heard around, there were also many rumors that the US government had conducted autopsies on the alleged aliens, transported corpses, wreckage and all evidence to Area 51 and tried at all costs to cover it up. the story. According to an official statement issued by the Air Force, what they retrieved at Brazel's ranch was no aircraft, much less a flying saucer, but a weather balloon.
Considerations
Something important to mention about the time the alleged accident happened is that the subject of flying saucers was a complete novelty. In fact, the term "flying saucer" had been coined just two weeks earlier by an aviator named Kenneth Arnold who reportedly spotted an unidentified flying saucer flying object around Washington's Mount Rainier.
On the Air Force's explanation that the wreck belonged to a weather balloon, the justification was accepted at the time, but years later, when UFO sightings began to become more numerous and popular, the story of that it was all an attempt by the military to conceal the truth eventually gained strength.
Many people have investigated the case over the seven decades since the crash, and one thing that has surfaced is that the military was trying to cover up the truth - but the whole thing had nothing to do with flying saucers. By 1947, as you may know, the US and Soviet Union were involved in the Cold War, and the Americans were secretly working on a project called Mogul.
The development of this initiative involved the launch of high-altitude balloons equipped with microphones to monitor Soviet-conducted nuclear tests, so the object that fell on Roswell would be one of those balloons. However, as it was a top-secret project, the US military ended up disclosing only part of the story - which eventually stirred the public's imagination.
Details of the Mogul Project were not made public until 1994, and in 1997 information was released that the Air Force had conducted a series of dummy tests as part of Operation High Dive, which involved launching parachute dolls from large altitudes for human survival studies. About the supposed necropsies performed on the ETs and the images that still circulate the internet showing the corpses, it has been a long time (more or less) proven that all is farce. But these explanations came too late ...
To this day, as you know, the incident causes controversy and arouses fascination with the world. On the one hand, we have people who are convinced that the US Government has indeed recovered aliens and spaceships; On the other hand, we have skeptics who claim that the problem is that the story involving flying saucers, extraterrestrial corpses and military conspiracies is much more interesting than the (simple) truth. And you, dear reader, what do you think?
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