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Sometime during the first week of July 1947, something crashed near Roswell.
The event was witnessed by two nuns on duty at St. Mary's Hospital, a couple enjoying a romantic summer rendezvous, Foster ranch foreman Mac Brazel, and others.
The following day, Brazel saddled up his horse and rode out toward the area of the crash. As he rode along, Brazel began to notice unusual pieces of what seemed to be metal debris, scattered over a large area. A day or two later, he drove into Roswell and reported the incident to Sheriff George Wilcox, who reported it to Intelligence Officer, Major Jesse Marcel.
Major Jesse Marcel decided to accompany the rancher back to the site. After collecting some curious-looking debris with strange "alien" hieroglyphic markings, Marcel returned to the base. For the days thereafter, the Army closed the debris site while the wreckage was cleared.
After all the pieces of the wreckage were recovered, the Army issued a press release boasting that they had captured a flying disc. Almost immediately afterward, the Army issued another press release where they denied catching a fly disk and state that it was nothing but a downed weather balloon. Evidently, they were covering up on the mistaken announcement of the “truth”.
Now, the aliens are living peaceably underground in Area 51, helping the United States reverse-engineer new technologies and gadgets.
That is how the story usually goes. Here is what really happened:
In the days after World War II, U.S. scientists were rightfully concerned about the Soviets getting The Atomic Bomb. Desperate for a way to monitor possible Soviet bomb tests, the scientists began Project Mogul. Mogul was the secret name for the program, which involved getting the microphones placed in the upper atmosphere for long periods of time.
The complex, 600-foot-long assemblage of Flight No. 4 included two dozen balloons, three radar reflectors, some parachutes, and black boxes. The reflectors were shaped like jacks -- eight-sided structures made of balsa wood and tough, shiny, metallic-coated paper. A toy company in Manhattan made them on the side and the company chose a curiously decorated tape to reinforce the reflectors.
Flight No. 4 was launched from Alamogordo and the flight went terribly wrong and the balloon crashed somewhere near Roswell. The debris that Mac Brazel came upon were apparently the remains of Flight No. 4. The reason the government was unable to reveal the truth at that time was simply because the project was top-secret.
In conclusion, Roswell is fun, entertaining, and mystifying, but don’t believe everything you hear about it!
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