When was roswell ufo crash

But behind all the UFO mania lies an uneasy truth. The events that transpired that summer are anything but clear-cut, with admitted coverups and conflicting explanations: It was a saucer!

It was a spy craft! It was the Soviets! General Roger M. Ramey, Commanding General of 8th Airforce, and Col. Thomas J. Sometime between mid-June and early July , rancher W.

But U. A photograph of Jesse Marcel, the head intelligence officer who initially investigated and recovered some of the debris from the Roswell site, in the Corsicana Daily Sun, July 9, According to the explanation , the wreckage came from a spy device created for an until-then classified project called Project Mogul.

The device—a connected string of high-altitude balloons equipped with microphones—was designed to float furtively over the USSR , detecting sound waves at a stealth distance. Balthaser, 79, is a retired civil engineer from Texas. In the s, he became interested in the night sky, wondering what was going on up there. Balthaser said he had retired in and moved to Roswell so he could dedicate more time to researching UFOs.

Balthaser said government officials could not afford to admit anything about the Roswell incident, or anything else, now. Through his research, Balthaser has met eyewitnesses to the Roswell incident, pored over countless pieces of evidence and met with self-proclaimed alien abductees including Betty and Barney Hill.

That editor, Art McQuiddy, was friends with Air Force Col William Blanchard, who penned the initial press release purporting that the crash was a flying saucer. A welcome sign at the entrance to Roswell, New Mexico. Read more. Coincidentally, the republication of the story came just one year after the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film about a government conspiracy covering up alien visits to Earth.

Looking at UFO sightings data from both sides of the Atlantic, a direct correlation between popular films involving aliens and real world UFO sightings becomes evident. One possible explanation for this is that the reporting centre became both better known and easier to contact with the advent of new technologies such as fax machines and the internet. In , The Economist analysed the available data from to and found that most UFOs were reported when people were drunk.

Even though Project Mogul was declassified in the s, it wasn't fully connected to Roswell until when the normally secretive National Security Agency finally published an in-depth report refuting all claims of a conspiracy at the site. A second report , released in , concluded that reports of alien bodies actually related to life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies.

But by providing detailed analysis of the Roswell incident, many analysts believe that the US government inadvertently fuelled interest in conspiracy theories and public suspicions that the US military was involved in a cover-up.

Because of the huge notoriety surrounding the Roswell incident, the town has become Ground Zero for UFO conspiracists. Each year on the anniversary of the story, thousands of enthusiasts embrace all things alien and paranormal at a UFO Festival. There, they can dissect mock alien bodies and take part in scientific experiments. Last year, to mark 70 years since the incident was first reported, around 38, people turned up from all over the world.

Kathy Lay, executive director for MainStreet Roswell, says :. There will be some out at the mall at Galactic Con. Some will be at the UFO museum doing the seminars and workshops.

You'll have some that will be going to the plays that are going on, some will be over at the planetarium, some will be here at this festival. They're all over - we just embrace it. Skip to header Skip to main content Skip to footer. Home News World News.