Roswell New Mexico UFO Crash - Fact Or Fiction?

The now infamous Roswell UFO Incident involvedRoswell vicinity and that aliens, some potentially
the salvage of suspicious apparatus near Roswell,alive, were recovered. It was intimated that a
New Mexico, United States, on the 7th of Julyhuge cover up of any knowledge of the incident
1947. Since the early 1980s it has become thewas instigated. These reports were dismissed by
focus of powerful rumors and probing questionsUFO prophets as being either part of a
around what exactly happened at this allegeddisinformation campaign or simply improbable,
crash site. While several books were published intothough a large number of UFO researchers hold
incident it has always been suggested that therethe idea that any alien crashed craft was in fact
was much more to the Roswell incident than theinvolved.
mere recovery of a weather balloon, skepticsBrazel was married, with children, but his wife and
instead saw the increasingly elaborate accounts aschildren lived in Tularosa, New Mexico, near
evidence of a conspiracy theory beingAlamogordo. Whilst he chiefly lived in house out on
constructed.the ranch where he worked, he believed that the
It is this which makes the Roswell UFO incidentcrash had resulted from falling parts that had
the perfect conspiracy theory. The existence ofseparated from a test airplane. "Mac" Brazel spent
limited evidence to support the alien downedthe next 40 years or so being grilled about the
spaceship theory is taken as confirmation that notincident from the media and military sources.
only was there an alien spacecraft, but that aBrazel gathered a large box load of the unusual
massive and wide ranging conspiracy exists towreckage and took it to his nearest neighbour,
cover up this fact from the every individual onFloyd and Loretta Proctor, with a view to
earth.obtaining their opinion of the items.
The Roswell UFO Incident reached a dormantBrazel is taken into custody almost immediately
status only a few days after it occurred andand kept under house arrest by the military for
remained this way for almost 31 years whenalmost a week. Brazel was, so said Major Edwin
Stanton Friedman, a nuclear expert and originalEasley, the 509th Provost Marshal, "supporting"
civilian researcher, interviewed the Roswell Armythe USAF whilst staying within "the visitor guest
Air Field Intelligence Officer and the time of thehouse" on the air force base.
crash a Major Jesse Marcel.The US military continues to assert that what
Major Jesse Marcel expressed his understandingwas actually recovered was wreckage from an
that the military had withheld information and inuntested high altitude observation balloon part of a
essence covered up the recovery of an alienclassified program named project " Mogul". As
craft. Marcel took the debris he recovered fromdescribed in the July 9, 1947, edition of the
the crash site to the Roswell Army Air Field theRoswell Daily Record, "The balloon which held it up,
next very morning. The Major was interviewedif that was how it worked, must have been 12
and confirmed the materials were "not of thisfeet long". A further news announcement was
Earth". Major Marcel later appeared on a local radiopublished, on this occasion from the Fort Worth
station and explained that he always knew it wasbase, reciting the object as being a "weather
a weather balloon.balloon". The debris was consistent with the
On June 14, 1947 William "Mac" Brazel noticedgeneral description of a weather balloon with a
some strange clusters of debris while working onkite. It is known however that government
the Foster ranch, where he was foreman, someofficials took reporters' notes from their desks
30 miles north of Roswell. Nvertheless, the originaland even warned a local radio reporter not to
press release coming out of the Roswell Fieldplay a recorded interview with the ranch hand,
base documented that the find was "aroundBrazel.
sometime last week," suggesting Brazel found theThere are widely conflicting views on what in
debris in early July. Brazel told the Roswell Dailyreality happened and there develops to this day
Record that he and his son saw a "large area ofpassionate debate about what evidence can be
bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil,believed. Numerous positions materialized from
a rather tough paper and sticks. The tangiblethese individuals as to what they felt were the
fragments recovered from the ranch which,true sequence of events, depending upon which
some have claimed, was from a downed UFO andwitness accounts were accepted or dismissed,
was not permitted a close inspection by theand what the documentary evidence
press. Friends said he had on numerous occasionsrecommended.
described the crash of a flying saucer and theThere is significant and convincing evidence that
recovery of alien bodies in the Socorro area,the Roswell UFO incident was a top secret
about 150 miles west of the Foster ranch. For thegovernment research program developing cutting
first time, the object was said to have crashededge technology designed for detecting Soviet
on the evening of Friday, July 4 instead ofnuclear test programs. The bulk of the evidence
Wednesday July 7.relating to the Roswell Incident is eyewitness
Indeed, several objects had been picked up bytestimony, which generates a unique problem
radar a few days in the area before one crashedsince few of these witnesses come to an
landed. Although these results have so far turnedagreement on the exact circumstances of the
out to be inconclusive, the University of Newalleged UFO crash.
Mexico archaeological team carried out analysis ofFor those whom are more than familiar with the
soil disruption at the precise location that somebulk of the Roswell evidence, it would be hard to
witnesses said they saw a long, linear impactconceive of this event in which the basis events
groove.are not true, however the Roswell Incident has all
Their conclusions amounted to evidence that atthe attributes to ensure it is always enshrined in
least one alien spacecraft had crash landed in theUFO folklore.