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What Happened At Roswell, NM? What Happened At crash-landing on earth? In 1993 Congressman myth: * In the 1950s the Air Force launched Roswell, NM? Steven Schiff or New Mexico asked the U.S. balloons as high as 19 miles into the atmosphere Government’s General Accounting Office to Continued from Page 13 look into whether the U.S. government had ever and dropped human dummies to test parachutes been involved in a space-alien cover-up, either for pilots of the X-15 rocket plane and the U-2 in Roswell, New Mexico, or anywhere else. The spy plane. The dummies, the Air Force says, DEJA VU GAO spent 18 months searching government were sometimes mistaken for aliens...and archives dating back to the 1940s, including because it didn’t want the real purpose of the The Roswell story would have probably have even the highly classified minutes of the stayed dead if Stanton T Friedman, a nuclear National Security Council. Their research tests to be revealed,it did not debunk the alien physicist, hadn’t lost his job during the 1970s. theories. UFOs were Friedman’s hobby...until he got laid prompted the U.S. Air Force to launch its own * Some balloons also dropped mock investigation. It released its findings in off: then it became his career. “In the 1970s, September 1944; the GAO’s report followed in interplanetary probes, which looked like flying when the bottom fell out of the nuclear physics November 1995; then a second U.S. Air Force saucers. business,” he explains, “I went full time as a report was released in 1997. * In one 1959 balloon crash, a lecturer.” His favorite topic: “Flying Saucers serviceman crashed a test balloon 10 miles ARE Real,” a talk that he gave at more than 600 PROJECT MOGUL northwest of Roswell and suffered an injury that college campuses and other venues around the caused his head to swell considerably. The country. All three reports at the same conclusion: man,Captain Dan D. Fulgham, was transferred to Wright Patterson in Ohio for treatment. The From there the story just kept growing. Dozens of new “witnesses” to the Roswell UFO what the conspiracy theorists believe were UFO incident, the Air Force says, helped inspire the began seeking out Friedman at his public crashes were actually top secret research notion that aliens have large heads and that programs by the U.S. military during the Cold appearances to tell him their stories. Soon, the War. aliens or alien corpses are being held at Wright Roswell “coverup” included humanoid alien Take Roswell: According to the reports, Patterson for study. [] beings. “Over the years,” Joe Nickell writes in the object that crashed on Mac Brazel’s farm the Skeptical Enquirer, “numerous rumors, was a balloon, but no ordinary weather balloon MYTH -vs- FACT urban legends, and outright hoaxes have - it was part of Project Mogul, a defense claimed that saucer wreckage and the remains program as top secret as the Manhattan Project Myth: of its humanoid occupants were stored at a Meteors rarely hit the earth. since they secret facility - the (nonexistent) ‘Hangar 10’ at itself. Unlike the Manhattan Project, however, burn up in the atmosphere. Project Mogul wasn’t geared toward creating Wright Patterson Air Force Base. People swear nuclear weapons, it was geared toward Fact: that the small corpses were autopsied at that or detecting them if the Soviets exploded them. Up to 150 tons of meteorite fragments another site.” In the late 1940s the U.S. had neither crash into the earth every year. It’s a wonder that * For the record, neither Mac Brazel nor Jesse Marcel claimed to have seen aliens among spy satellites not high-altitude spy planes that it there are very few known occurrences of could send over the Soviet Union to see if people being struck by meteorites. One meteor the wreckage. No one went public with those Stalin’s crash program to build nuclear weapons victim was Mrs. Hewlett Hodges of Alabama. In claims until more than 30 years after the fact. was succeeding. Instead, government scientists 1954, a meteorite crashed through her roof, figured, “trains” of weather balloons fitted with bounced off a radio, and struck her on the hip, WHY BELIEVE IN ROSWELL? special sensing equipment, if launched high giving her a nasty bruise. enough into the atmosphere, might be able to * Why are UFO conspiracy theories so popular? Anthropologists who study the detect the shock waves given off by nuclear Myth: Life on earth developed because the “Roswell Myth” point to two psychological explosions thousands of miles away. atmosphere contains oxygen. factors that help it endure: Up, Up, and Away Fact: 1) It appeals to a cynical public that Life on earth probably developed in an lived through the Kennedy assassination, Project Mogul was just such a program, oxygen-free atmosphere, and even today some Watergate, Vietnam and other government crises, and who believe in the government’s the reports explained, and the object that microorganism can only live in the absence of crashed on Mac Brazel’s field in 1947 was oxygen. proclivity for covering things up. As Time “Flight R-4,” a Mogul balloon train that had magazine reported on the 50th anniversary of been launched from Alamogordo Army Air Myth: the Roswell incident, Field - near the Roswell Base - in June 1947. It will take a huge drop in temperature to A state of mind develops which easily believes in cover-up. The fact that the military is The train of 20 balloons was tracked to within put us into an ice age. Mac Brazel’s ranch; shortly afterward, radar Fact: known for ‘covert’ activities with foreign contact was lost and the balloons were never It doesn’t take a large change in governments having to do with weapons which could wipe out humanity make the idea of secret recovered...at least not by the folks at temperature to create an ice age. It only takes slightly colder winters and summers. If more Alamogordo. The Roswell intelligence officer interactions with aliens seem possible. Once who recovered the wreckage didn’t have this state of mind is in place, anything which enough security clearance to know about snow falls during a slightly colder winter than can be melted in a slightly cooler summer, the might prove the crash was terrestrial becomes a Project Mogul, thus they didn’t know to inform result would be an ice age. lie. 2) UFO theories project a sense of order Alamogordo of the discovery. On the whole, the program was onto the chaos of the universe...and they can successful - Project Mogul apparently did detect SLAVERY IS A even serve as an ego boost to true-believers, the first Soviet nuclear blasts. Even so, the because they suggest that we are interesting project was discontinued when scientists CRIME! enough that aliens with vastly superior intelligence actually bother to visit us. discovered that such blasts could also be detected on the ground, making the balloon- Believing in aliens, the argument goes, is much borne sensors unnecessary. Project Mogul was IF YOU KNOW OF A PERSON more satisfying than believing that aliens are THAT IS INVOLVED IN HUMAN out there but would never want to visit us. discontinued in the early 1950s. SLAVERY AND OR OTHER PROJECTS TRAFFICKING, YOU CAN NOW WAS THERE A CONSPIRACY? MAKE A DIFFERENCE. The Air Force’s 1997 suggested that a number So is the government of the United www.mdsrc.org States of America hiding evidence of an alien of other military projects that took place in the 1940s and 1950s became part of the Roswell