roswell incident

It is an undisputed fact that something crashed in the New Mexico desert on July 3, 1947. A rancher named W.W. "Mac" Brazel found the wreckage in one of his pastures. Puzzled by the nature of the materials at the crash site, Brazel called in the Roswell sheriff. Within days, the U.S. Air Force had secured the site and cleared away the wreckage. On July 8 they made a startling announcement. The mysterious wreck was a crashed flying saucer. The news was carried around the world, making headlines as far away as London. The next day, the U.S. Air Force rescinded their earlier press release. They claimed that the wreckage was actually the remains of a crashed high-altitude weather balloon. The officers who had concluded that the wreckage was a flying saucer were severely reprimanded by the Air Force brass. To add insult to injury an FBI team called out to investigate the incident, claimed the object was indeed a weather balloon, and strongly implied incompetence on the part of the original investigating Air Force personnel.

Case closed? Not at all. Roswell had become a symbol of government conspiracy and deception regarding 'extraterrestrial visitations' for the community of UFO believers. Many believe that the Air Force worked with the FBI to squash a rogue element within the military that wanted to reveal the truth about Alien visitors. Over the years there have been numerous accounts of mysterious activity in the area around Roswell. Multiple witnesses claim to have seen military teams recovering alien bodies in the late 50's. The Air Force admits that these reports are accurate. They add one clarification though; the 'bodies' were actually anthropomorphic test dummies used in classified Air Force tests.