Tired of hearing and reading about Egypt and Korean airline crashes? I have just the thing for you. Its loaded with consipiracy theory even if we want to bring a little tin foil to the table.
Roswell, New Mexico–July 8, 1947. It was right after WWII and people were settling down to normal…or perhaps I should say the new normal. Then came the crash.
Movies and TV shows have been made about Roswell. Much of the Xfiles was rooted in Roswell. Roswell today is synonymous for alien.
The Roswell UFO incident took place in the U.S. in 1947, when an airborne object crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, on July 7, 1947. Explanations of what actually took place are based on both official and unofficial communications. Although the crash is attributed to a U.S. military surveillance balloon by the U.S. government, the most famous explanation of what occurred is that the object was a spacecraft containing extraterrestrial life. Since the late 1970s, the Roswell incident has been the subject of much controversy, and conspiracy theories have arisen about the event.
The United States Armed Forces maintains that what was recovered near Roswell was debris from the crash of an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon belonging to what was then a classified (top secret) program named Mogul. In contrast, many UFO proponents maintain that an alien craft was found, its occupants were captured, and that the military engaged in a massive cover-up. The Roswell incident has turned into a widely known pop culture phenomenon, making the name “Roswell” synonymous with UFOs. Roswell has become the most publicized of all alleged UFO incidents.
On July 8, 1947, the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) public information officer Walter Haut, issued a press release stating that personnel from the field’s 509th Operations Group had recovered a “flying disk”, which had crashed on a ranch near Roswell. Later that day, the press reported that Commanding General of the Eighth Air Force Roger Ramey had stated that a weather balloon was recovered by the RAAF personnel. A press conference was held, featuring debris (foil, rubber and wood) said to be from the crashed object, which seemed to confirm its description as a weather balloon.
Subsequently the incident faded from the attention of UFO researchers for over 30 years. In 1978, physicist and 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 covered up the recovery of an alien spacecraft. His story spread through UFO circles, being featured in some UFO documentaries at the time. In February 1980, the National Enquirer ran its own interview with Marcel, garnering national and worldwide attention for the Roswell incident. Additional witnesses added significant new details, including claims of a large-scale military operation dedicated to recovering alien craft and aliens themselves, at as many as 11 crash sites, and alleged witness intimidation. In 1989, former mortician Glenn Dennis put forth a detailed personal account, wherein he claimed alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell base.
Did interest in Roswell really go away? I think it has always been around. If you talk to people who served as career military, you won’t hear the skepticism you might normally expect. Some fairly influential people are Roswell believers.
The question becomes–do you believe intelligent beings are out there from other planets in the universe? Could they get to earth? Are we limited by what we know and understand or what others know or understand? Would aliens be adversarial?
Why would the government hide evidence of extra-terrestrial beings? I have always read that the people in post-WWII America couldn’t take the news and would react like they did to “War of the Worlds.” Additionally there is speculation that the Cold War involvement kept the government from disclosure. Who knows.
Was Roswell the result of government testing gone awry or was it really extra-terrestrial?
Apparently some folks are embarrassed to admit they think Roswell was really a close encounter.
I am not sure what else it could be.
I believe there is other life out there. Not sure if it comes to earth or not. Statistically speaking, it is rather arrogant to assume we are the only intelligent life in the universe.
Anybody who really believes aliens visited Earth needed to pay more attention in science class. Physics and biology class especially.
Are there aliens out there somewhere in the universe? Yes. Will we ever meet them? No. The distances are just too great
Over the past five years cameras have become ubiquitous thanks to smart phones. So where are all the good high quality pictures of aliens, bigfoot and Elvis? (Bonus points for all three in one picture!)
Who is to say that an alien is dealing with the same technology we are, Furby?
Part of me agrees with you…another part of me is skeptical.
Bigfoot and Elvis…not going there. Yawn. Aliens…remote maybe. I am not saying definitely not. Those dudes might not be dealing with earth physics.
I didn’t say anything about technology. I said physics.
Physics says a duck could fly straight through the wall and into my kitchen (quantum tunneling) but we don’t have the technology to make it happen.
But physics says faster than light travel is impossible. (general relativity) No amount of technology can get you around it. Without FTL travel, it would take an impossibly long time to reach even the nearest stars (which don’t look very hospitable anyway.)
Physics is the same for everybody. You, me and the little green men. They may be able to do things we can’t do. (Like make a cell phone with a battery than lasts more than a day) but if something goes against proven laws of physics, it can’t be done.
Physics as we know it says it is impossible.
Operative words…as we know it.
You didn’t watch enough Xfiles.
Science doesn’t work like that. The problem isn’t that “physics as we know it” says it’s impossible. It’s “we know enough physics to prove that it is impossible.” Learning more about the universe doesn’t make something that is impossible become unimpossible.
Simple addition is enough to prove that 1+1 does not equal 3. You can learn as much calculus as you want, but you can’t change that outcome. We are at the same point with FTL travel. We can prove it is impossible. (That’s a collective we by the way, I sure couldn’t prove it) I wish it weren’t so, but it is. Meeting ET is just not going to happen. Maybe someday we’ll detect something that suggests there is (or was) most likely an alien race out there, but we’ll never have face to face contact.
I’ve probably read or watched more SF that just about anybody around. X-files wasn’t my favorite though. I was watching B5 at the time. Loved Firefly and liked BSG before it sucked. What were your favs?
Twilight Zone, Millenium, Xfiles, Star Trek (the original). I am not a huge fan of science fiction. Selective likes I guess.
The rational part of my mind agrees with you. The speculative part of my mind tells me that there are realms that transcend our understanding and that there are probably alternate universes that just work differently that that which we know. Now can I argue it? Hell no. You don’t know what you don’t know.
I keep an open mind. Meanwhile, I think alien abductees are wackos, sort of like the people who deny that a plane hit the Pentagon.
I have known several people who don’t go for nonsense who have had access to some of this stuff…they arent deniers. They aren’t really going to say extra terrestrial but they are going to not say no either.