| Of all of the conspiracy theories that are floating | | | | you only have one or two witnesses, but when |
| around out there, perhaps none of them have the | | | | you have 50, the story tends to have much |
| staying power or the potential impact to change | | | | more in the way of staying power. The Roswell |
| the way every person on earth perceives reality | | | | Incident has gone on to be one of the most |
| like UFO's. For those that don't know, UFO stands | | | | popular conspiracy theories in history and has |
| for Unidentified Flying Objects, and it is a title that | | | | helped to spawn countless television shows and |
| has been given to just about anything seen | | | | movies. Today, the city of Roswell makes its |
| floating, flying, hovering or soaring through the air | | | | money almost solely off of tourism that has been |
| that we can't readily identify as a bird or a plane | | | | generated by the crash decades ago. |
| (or Superman, for that matter.) | | | | For many skeptics, however, the incredible rise in |
| All official government agencies have sworn for | | | | flying saucer sightings can be tied to Cold War |
| decades that UFO's are nothing but a product of | | | | tensions and the launch of the first ever |
| an overactive imagination, but for millions of | | | | spacecraft, Sputnik. As people grew more and |
| people who have seen unexplained things with | | | | more paranoid about an attack from the sky |
| their own eyes, UFOs are incredibly real and the | | | | from our Russian adversaries, it makes perfect |
| fact that no one in government will comment on | | | | sense that people would attach meaning to |
| them officially, is frustrating to say the least. | | | | objects that they couldn't recognize. |
| The most famous, or infamous, UFO sighting of all | | | | Combine the rising paranoia with the onset of the |
| time within the United States was the incident at | | | | jet engine age and the fact that the military was |
| Roswell, New Mexico. A group of average citizens | | | | testing and experimenting with many, many new |
| claim that they witnessed a downed UFO 'flying | | | | technologies at the time in an attempt to keep up |
| saucer' in the middle of a farmer's field, only to | | | | with the Joneses, and the UFO conspiracy theory |
| have the local military base which cleaned up the | | | | stops making a lot of sense. |
| crash site tell them that what they saw was | | | | But for those that still believe, and for those that |
| simply a downed weather balloon. What made the | | | | claim to have been abducted and brought aboard |
| Roswell incident so remarkable was the sheer | | | | UFO's, nothing will ever break the belief that there |
| number of regular people who saw the crash site | | | | are strange craft circling our skies right at this |
| before it could be removed. | | | | very minute. |
| It is easy to discount a conspiracy theory when | | | | |