Roswell, UFO or Military Balloon Crash Site?

 

The year was 1947, and the citizens of the United States and other countries were in a craze about UFOs piloted by aliens sighted in the skies. Then when an unidentified flying object crash-landed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico, people were pretty convinced. Several people in the Roswell area claimed that they saw debris scattered over large areas, and at least one person had also reported witnessing a fiery object in the sky, just before it crashed to earth. People also remembered seeing bodies of alien forms being taken away by the military.

Mortician, Glenn Dennis claimed in 1989, that a friend of his who worked as a nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field, walked in on some sort of experiment. Where doctors were bent down over three creatures who for the most part resembled humans. Only they were different. They apparently had small bodies, spindly arms, and giant bald heads. 

In 1947, William Brazel, who worked on J.B. Foster ranch, had noticed clusters of debris, about 30 miles north of Roswell. He claimed that he and his son had first noticed the wreckage, later they returned with his wife and daughter to clean it up. This was about 5 pounds in total and consisted of rubber, sticks, tough glossy paper, lightweight metals, fiber-optic cables, and tape. Some claiming that a lot of these materials were too advanced for humans at the time of the finding. There are rumors that Brazel collected some of the materials and hid them before the army arrived, but this cannot be confirmed. 

These people also believe that the army removed alien bodies from the wreckage and took them to either Area 51 in Nevada or in Roswell. In old Roswell news reports, there were descriptions of disfigured bodies with only four fingers. Ironically, seven years after the crash, the U.S. Air Force began conducting what they called "Dummy Drops". In which they dropped anthropomorphic gray dummies that looked similar to humans, from high altitude weather balloons. These dummies were said to resemble the gaunt, waxy, green-gray figures we often see in pop culture. 

In the 1970s there were many reports of UFO sightings from the United States and other countries around the world. The most notable one coming from then Governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter. Who reported that he had seen a suspicious, “self-luminous” aircraft in 1973. When running for president he promised to release any information regarding UFOs including the Roswell files. However, once he became president his story changed claiming that releasing any UFO knowledge would be a national security risk. With prominent politicians claiming UFO sightings it gave even more credibility to incidents like Roswell. 

In 1995, "Video footage" was released by Ray Santilli that depicted an alien autopsy by a US military official shortly after the Roswell incident. However, in 2006 Santilli admitted that the footage was actually a reconstruction based on actual footage that is now lost, with some actual frames that somehow managed to survive. 

It was October 26th, 2007 when Bill Richardson had been asked to release files on Roswell. He explained by saying that he actually tried to have the files released when he was a congressman. However, this attempt was thwarted by the Department of Defense and the Los Alamos Labs pretty quickly. He went on to say that the files are considered classified. John Podesta, who was President Clinton's chief of staff, and even claimed that it was time these 25-year-old files were released. Even President Obama has spoken on Roswell, and whatever happened there they are keeping tight-lipped about it.

There is also the story of Adam Dew and Joseph Beason, who claimed to have photographic evidence that Roswell really did happen. They had acquired these photographs when Beason's sister had cleaned out the belongings of an elderly lady who had passed 14 years earlier. 

Adam looked at the picture, and he was shocked and alarmed. He was looking at the small, brown, and withered body in disbelief. His eyes darting to those withered arms, those shriveled legs. His eyes glared at that triangular skull, those elongated eyes, and that thin mouth. This was most definitely an alien. He remembered that witnesses in Roswell describe a flying saucer that crash-landed nearby. Many of these witnesses had recalled seeing aliens among the wreckage. These aliens were taken away by the military to some secret location. Even the military had first announced that it was a flying saucer that had crashed, later changing their story saying that a weather balloon had fallen from the sky.

Dan Dwyer, a Roswell firefighter in 1947, saw three aliens at the crash site. The body in the photograph resembled what eyewitnesses even said they saw, frail, big head, and so on. It wasn't a sketch either, it was a photo and it was taken right after recovery, they were sure of it. They took the photographs to professors, color experts, and animators. 

The experts told them that they were definitely real, and hadn't been tampered with. They took it to Richard Doble, who worked at the University of Toronto. Who told them that the figure in the photograph had half as many ribs as that of a human, it had no collarbone, and its arms were attached to its ribs. This had them excited, for they had actual evidence of the Roswell incident, or so they thought. 

They took the pictures around Roswell, and the more they showed the pictures the stranger people got. One woman even asked them if the Government knew they had these photos, and advised that they be safe. They also tracked down Eleazar Benavides an air force base veteran. Benavides claimed that he had seen the aliens when they were brought into the base, and when he saw the photograph he agreed that is what he saw back in 1947. 

However, once the pictures were released to the public, things got strange. There was a place card that had always been too blurry to read in the photos.  Skeptics weren't convinced and even called the photos a hoax, but it wasn't until a member of the Roswell Slides Research Group posted online under the name Neb Later had claimed to examine the photographs with SmartDeBlur Pro. The process took several hours, but it was now clear enough to read:

"MUMMIFIED BODY OF TWO-YEAR-OLD BOY" 

They were so upset, they even accused Roswell Slides Research Group of photoshopping the image. But, after a little digging, they accepted their defeat. The pictures were fakes. Or at least they weren't of aliens as they had thought. In 1947, the U.S. Government had first stated that a flying disc had crash-landed on J.B. Foster ranch. They quickly took back that statement and claimed that what landed on that ranch was a common weather balloon, but even this was a lie. 

Years later, the U.S. Government would admit that it wasn't a common weather balloon at all, but a military balloon, It was in the 1990s when the US Military disclosed the "true nature" of the object. It was a "Nuclear Test Surveillance Balloon." From a top-secret, Project Mogul. 

In 1997, a final Military report was released entitled: "The Roswell Report: Case Closed". In this report, the military claimed that stories of alien bodies were concocted by memories of the "Dummy Drop" in the 1950s. An injured airman parachutist and charred bodies from an airplane crash all rolled into one memory, of the Roswell Incident. However, many believe this is just another excuse to help cover up what really happened in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. 

Was there a UFO crash, or is the Government telling the truth?

You decide.