During a thunderstorm on July 3 1947, a rancher named William 'Mac' Brazel came across the wreckage of a craft in the desert of New Mexico. Several days later four bodies were found several miles from the crash site. On July 8th 1947 the US army air force cordoned off the area around Roswell, New Mexico and removed all evidence of what was to become one of the most astonishing events in recorded history. The wreckage was taken away by B29 under the command of Colonel William H. Blanchard, to Wright Patterson Air Base. Afterwards, Blanchard released a statement saying that they had found a flying disc.

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Alegedly Brazel was held for several days by the military and on his release concurred with the new official explanation that the recovered material was in fact from a weather balloon. Bits of weather balloon were paraded for the media to support the claims. However, the weather balloon material was not appropriate as that recovered from the crash site was thin foil like, and the wood resembled balsa which did not burn with a flame. The parchment showed undecipherable hieroglyphics. The wreckage was taken to the foreign technology department of the Wright Patterson Air force base, where captured hardware went through top secret intelligence analysis. Documents that confirmed this were released under the Freedom of information Act. The U.S government's inability to take swift action over the Roswell incident has led to speculation over the case. No one really knows what was found in 1947, and it is unlikely that the common people will ever find out. The weather balloon explanation however has not been accepted, and from the start was never seen as plausible. If it was just a balloon, then why all the fuss over it?