On July 8, 1947, the world learned of the "flying saucer" from Roswell. When a mysterious object fell from the sky near a small town, its remains became the subject of many rumors. Especially since the army and representatives of the authorities quickly appeared on the spot. The minds fired by the space race quickly gave the answer: aliens! How was the reality?
On July 2, 1947, an unidentified object crashed in Roswell
The military quickly dealt with the matter of the mysterious remains
On July 8, 1947, an article appeared in the press that for the first time described the "flying saucer"
The first official announcement was that extraterrestrial material had been found
The army later corrected that the mysterious object was actually a weather balloon
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.
William Brazel, a farmer, found out about it the next day and found scattered fragments of undefined, metallic material in his field. He reported the case 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.
On July 7, an event occurred that nobody had expected. In an official message to the press, Colonel Walter Haut made the following announcement:
"Many rumors of 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 kept 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.
Action was immediately taken and the drive was retrieved from the rancher's house. He was inspected at the Roswell Army airfield and then transferred by Major Marcel to headquarters."
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 Dayli 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 that 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 was counting on the discovery to 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 tracks.
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 with, 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 in 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 that featured a fully functional balloon. Comparing the photos of the Roswell remains and the balloons displayed, it is not hard not to notice the obvious similarity.
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 supersensitive microphones placed high above the ground, for distant traces of the detonation of nuclear bombs. The story of the aliens could easily cover the subject of unusual balloon trials. The matter, however, got out of control quite quickly.
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 the bodies of aliens that were to be transported to a military base in Area 51, Nevada.
It is also not surprising that a large group of witnesses claim to have seen flying saucers and even aliens. Many people are looking for fame and fame and will not hesitate to lie about anything to achieve it. Interestingly, the first reports about spotted aliens appeared only in 1980, i.e. 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 three so-called flying saucers had been discovered in New Mexico. They are described as circular in shape with a raised center about 50 feet in diameter (about 15 meters). Each of them contained three human-shaped bodies, but only 3 feet tall (less than a meter), dressed in metallic clothes made of very fine fabric. Each body was wrapped in a manner that resembled the suits of test pilots.
Flying saucers were found in New Mexico, according to an informant, 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 note 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 of the 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.
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