ROSWELL: FINALLY THE TRUTH IS OUT!
REALLIFE
THE WORLD’S most famous UFO case was reduced to a laughing- stock when a series of “new” photographs showing a dead ALIEN were ridiculed all across the globe.
For critics of The Roswell Incident, it was the final nail in the coffin of a conspiracy theory that had divided opinion for seven decades.
But the most recent events shouldn’t disguise the truth of this compelling mystery – there’s still enough evidence to suggest that something unsettling DID take place in this protected military enclave deep in the American desert...
It was billed as the ‘ smoking gun’ for UFO enthusiasts – newly discovered pictures which promised to PROVE once and for all that an alien craft really did crash land in scrubland surrounding Roswell, New Mexico, US, way back in 1947.
These so- called ‘ Roswell Files’ – a series of old Kodachrome photographs – were discovered by journalist Adam Dew and were claimed to show the corpse of an extra- terrestrial creature.
And the world waited with bated breath as Dew prepared to show them for the first time.
But when he and his associates finally unleashed the promised images, audiences – including those who’d paid £ 15 each to watch the big reveal via an online link – were left utterly underwhelmed.
Critics immediately pointed out the similarity between Dew’s pics – allegedly found hidden in a collection of snaps owned by geologist Bernard Ray and his wife Hilda, who have both died – and the mummified remains of children widely found in Egypt and displayed in museums worldwide.
As far as detractors were concerned, the snaps were at best a case of mistaken identity and at worse an act of fakery and fraud.
But that doesn’t mean the Roswell myth has been proved to be bogus – because it still has some level- headed experts scratching their heads.
The facts as we know them are as follows: On or around July 2, 1947, something crashed on remote ranchland not far from a military base at Roswell.
A local farmer alerted the US Army and the wreckage was taken back to the base by intelligence officer Jesse Marcel.
The military then put out one of the most bizarre press releases in history.
It read: “The many rumours regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc.”
But within 24 hours, the military retracted the story, said that they’d made a huge mistake, and claimed the object recovered was nothing but a weather balloon.
Those in the know were puzzled, to say the least.
Weather balloon launches were common in the area and it seemed hard to believe that highly trained military personnel would mistake one for a downed alien craft.
While eye- witness reports told of wrecked spaceships and the bodies of other- worldly pilots strewn across the ground, the government went quiet.
That was, however, until the 1990s, when the US Air Force launched a series of official inquiries in response to media and public pressure.
It transpired that many documents from the period had been destroyed without proper authorisation.
Conspiracy theorists had a field day.
The US Air Force claimed that the weather balloon had been carrying top secret testing equipment looking for evidence the Soviets had developed an atomic bomb.
CERTAIN: Jesse Marcel ( with the ‘ weather balloon’. He told his son ( that the alien craft story was true
The odd press release was, then, nothing but misinformation to bamboozle the Russians.
They went on to say that any strange bodies seen at the time were crash test dummies that had been dropped in high- altitude parachute tests.
But that only confused things, as the Roswell crash took place in 1947 while parachute tests didn’t start until 1954.
The story became more and more convoluted and fact quickly blurred into fiction.
A film, supposedly showing an alien autopsy, emerged in 1995, but was condemned as a hoax.
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