July 8, 1947 - the world learned about the famous Roswell incident ...Roswell has become a symbol. When in 1947 a mysterious object fell from the sky near a small town, its remains became the subject of many rumors. Especially that the army and representatives of the authorities quickly appeared on the spot. The minds fired by the space race quickly provided the answer: aliens! How was the reality? On July 4, a "shiny" object crashed in the New Mexico desert. A few days after the incident, military personnel from Roswell Army Air Field reported in a press release that the remains of a "flying saucer" had been discovered. It was quickly denied, but it also gave rise to the most famous UFO story in the history of the world. It was with Roswell that the mass hysteria about visiting UFOs on Earth began. In recent years, many films have been made drawing inspiration from this event. Two popular series based on the event also gained fame - Roswell and Archive X. On July 2, 1947, Roswell, New Mexico. The sun disappearing behind the horizon illuminates a mysterious object in the sky. He is watched by several townspeople, including the Wilmot couple, residents of the town. In later testimony, Dan Wilmot stated that the object was "glowing" and "flew at high speed". He also described the shape using the phrase "two saucers, turned inside out." To this day, we sometimes refer to UFOs as "flying saucers". The undeniable fact that evening, however, is that the object fell to the ground. Roswell Army Air Field (this was the name used in the years 1941-1948) was the later Walker Air Force Base, which until 1967 was the most important base of the US Air Force strategic command. It is located 5 kilometers south of Roswell, a town in Chaves County, New Mexico. The next day William Brazel, a farmer who found scattered fragments of undefined, metallic material in his field, found out about it. He reported the matter to the local sheriff on July 6. He handed her over to the army even higher. The 509th Bomb Squadron was stationed in Roswell, which arrived at the scene, surrounded it, and launched an investigation.
How did it all start? As Wired News points out, on July 8, 1947, the local Roswell Daily Record described the story as "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region." which will fuel the imagination of UFO-interested people for the next half-century. On July 7, an event occurred that no one had expected. In an official message to the press, Colonel Walter Haut made the following announcement:
"Many rumors about the flying disc materialized yesterday when the Intelligence Bureau of the 509th Air Force 8th Bomb Group was fortunate enough to intercept the disc thanks to the collaboration of one of the local farmers and the Chaves County Sheriff's Office.
The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell last week. Without access to a telephone, the farmer stored the disk until he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Major Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Bureau.
The action was immediately taken and the drive was retrieved from the rancher's house. He was inspected at a Roswell Army airfield and then transferred by Major Marcel to headquarters."
However, another version appeared in the press the next day, correcting the earlier information. The military said the remains were in fact the remains of a weather balloon. "No flying saucer". Yes, it was the US military that used the famous phrase for the first time. It is not difficult to imagine the reaction of the media after such information. On July 8, 1947, an article appeared on the front page of the Roswell Daily Record saying that "the RAAF has seized a flying saucer from a ranch in Roswell." The information went out into the world and soon everyone heard about the small American town.
The name of Jesse A. Marcel mentioned in the message is probably of the greatest importance to the whole "Roswell myth". It was he who led a team of soldiers on the spot and - most likely - he also formulated a press release which was made public. Jesse Marcel, without contacting any other entities, decided to investigate the matter himself and - having no practical and theoretical knowledge about the find - to give his own opinion. Perhaps he hoped the discovery would be groundbreaking enough to open up a new career door for him or to bring fame as the one who first encountered and described the alien footprints. Marcel willingly posed with the remnants of the mysterious object and talked about them even more willingly. He was the first to say that "this material was certainly not created on Earth". As evidence, he cited cases in which he tried to destroy it by means of, inter alia, lighters, and drills. The remains were neither burnt nor perforated. Moreover, Jesse Marcel repeated that the remains contained mysterious hieroglyphs, written - in his opinion - in the language of aliens. Perhaps the information about aliens was also supposed to cover the real events. The day after the statement by the 509th Bomb Group, Brigadier General Roger Ramey held a press conference, explaining that the remains were found from a damaged weather balloon. To confirm these words, Ramey took some of the remains with him. On July 11, the army also held a special press show featuring a fully functional balloon. Comparing the photos of the Roswell remains and the balloons displayed, it is not hard to see the obvious similarities. However, all indications are that these balloons were not used at that time to track changes in the weather but to detect Soviet nuclear tests. The US Army conducted these activities under the code name "Mogul". The information about it was revealed by the Americans only in 1995. Operation Mogul was aimed at listening, using super sensitive microphones placed high above the ground, for distant traces of the detonation of nuclear bombs. The story of the aliens could have easily covered the subject of unusual balloon trials. The matter, however, got out of control quite quickly.
The military rectification has reassured the public about the Roswell incident for more than 30 years. However, in 1980, the amazing history was brought back to the world by the publication of Charles Berlitz's book. The Roswell Incident, turning Roswell into a mecca for all kinds of ufologists and adherents of the theory of encounters with aliens. It was then that rumors appeared that the bodies of aliens had been found.
The case became so high-profile in American society that in the 1990s the US government produced two reports that were to explain the matter in depth. In the first report, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Roswell) The US Air Force collected and declassified many documents related to the Roswell incident. The report, which was published in 1994, was a thousand pages long. It was supposed to reveal documents in the possession of the US Air Force regarding the famous incident.
But the first report was not enough. In 1997, the second governmental publication entitled The Roswell Report: Case Closed, came out around Roswell's 50th anniversary. It showed, among other things, that the figures of the aliens reportedly seen in the New Mexico desert are actually human-like test puppets that were used by the US air force for scientific experiments in high-altitude balloons.
The military reported in reports that the Roswell incident was a byproduct of the Cold War that created inadvertently supernatural fantasies. Nowadays, the town of Roswell has turned into a tourist attraction - the city has even built an alien museum, the International UFO Museum, and Research Center, and an annual festival called the Roswell UFO Festival
What was really found in July 1947? Military experiment or spaceship? We'll probably never know it for sure. Anyway, whatever the government does not disclose, any documents it declassifies, nothing will destroy the legend. The myth will continue anyway - ufologists will not believe that the government is no longer hiding anything and that it is not profitable for the residents of Roswell to expose cosmic history. Residents of Roswell turned UFOs into a machine that propels thousands of tourists to this desert town. Who would be there if not for the myth of the flying saucer? Residents and the government of Roswell will not give up on this. Everyone wants to believe. The myth must go on.
The strangest thing about Roswell is how far the story of supposedly extraterrestrial remains has come. From the story of indestructible material and "cosmic" hieroglyphs, the narrative moved fairly quickly about alien bodies that were to be transported to a military base in Area 51, Nevada. A large group of witnesses claiming to have seen flying saucers, and even aliens, is not surprising. Lots of people are looking for fame and fame and won't hesitate to lie on any topic to get it. Interestingly, the first reports of "eyewitnesses" about the sight of aliens appeared only in 1980, so more than 30 years after the catastrophe. However, the testimony of FBI agent Guy Hottel in 1950 to the then director of the agency, J. Edgar Hoover, remains a secret. The document, a copy of which is still preserved today, reads as follows:
"The Air Force investigator said that three so-called flying saucers had been discovered in New Mexico. They were described as circular in shape with a raised center, about 50 feet in diameter (about 15 meters). Each had three bodies of a human shape, but only 3 feet high (less than a meter), dressed in metallic clothing made of very fine fabric, each body wrapped in a manner that resembled the pilot's suits.
According to an informant, flying saucers were found in New Mexico because the government deployed a powerful radar there that the whistleblower believes is disrupting the control systems in the saucers. "
FBI spokesman Bill Carter said the memo was by no means unique, and that information about aliens and Elvis Presley was frequently searched in the archives. To this day, Roswell lives on those events, and the story about aliens has permeated into local folklore. A town that would otherwise be unknown, today is known to people from all over the world, and some of them even come to Roswell. And although the aliens themselves are unlikely to be found there, even the McDonald's restaurant in this city has the shape of a flying saucer.
No comments:
Post a Comment