Roswell UFO incident
The Roswell UFO Incident is a well-known incident involving a purported crash of an unidentified flying object, or UFO, in Roswell, New Mexico.The official reports of the time state that this crash was in fact a weather balloon, but some conspiracy theorists hold that this is disinformation and that the Americann government of the time were witholding information.
The incident has greatly inspired fiction relating to UFOs.
Today, UFO tourism is a major income for people around Roswell. The place has also been featured in many books, comics, movies and television series - for example, in the Star Trek universe, the object was a Ferengi ship from the future. Another notable example is the Roswell television show.
In 1994, the "Roswell case" was officially closed (see [1]), though Ray Santilli, a British film producer, produced a film in 1995 supposedly showing the autopsy of an alien from the crash. It is the county seat of Chaves County6.
Additionally, in 2003, the Sci-Fi Channel funded a scientific investigation at Roswell that revealed some anomalies, and collected many samples of local soil.
The question remains that if it wasn't a flying saucer, why the initial reports of UFOs and the veil of secrecy? Here are some probable explanations by Karl T. Pflock in his book "Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe":
- The initial report of a UFO crash by the Army was the blunder of a particular officer suffering from a case of hubris, and the desire to "scoop" the biggest story he could see, which involved the growing number of UFO sightings.
- What crashed in the desert was a balloon with a long train of equipment, and this balloon was of a top secret project -- Project Mogul, hence the veil of secrecy.
- Several years later, an aerial tanker crashed near Roswell and badly burned bodies were found. Due to the time that passed, this memory merged with the original balloon crash and thus was born the story of alien bodies being found.
