The US Government Covered up an Alien Crash at Roswell

The Roswell Incident is one of the most famous reported UFO sightings ever. According to reports, a UFO crash landed near Roswell, New Mexico on the 7 July 1947, and the U S military recovered an alien ship and, perhaps, even alien bodies, which they whisked away to a secret facility and covered up all traces of the crash.

The official military stance on the incident is that the UFO was, in fact, part of a test that they were conducting and that the recovered wreckage was from an experimental high-altitude surveillance balloon. Interestingly, at the time, the case provoked little attention and was soon forgotten. However, in 1978, Major Jesse Marcel, who was involved in the recovery of the wreckage in 1947, was interviewed by a UFO researcher. He claimed that the military had covered up the discovery of an alien spacecraft. His story soon became famous and the whole idea began to gain traction in the 1980s.

Various other witnesses began to emerge, backing up Marcel’s story, and then, in 1989, a mortician by the name of Glenn Dennis claimed that alien autopsies were carried out at the Roswell military base. The growing speculation and amazing level of fame achieved by the story prompted an official investigation which again claimed a secret operation called Project Mogul. This program involved high-altitude balloons that were to blame, and reports of bodies were likely related to a 1950’s test called Project High Dive, which involved a number of anthropomorphic dummies.

The UFO enthusiasts refused to accept the official explanations, and there have been hundreds of books written on the Roswell incident that each have a slightly different take on what actually happened. As the number of witnesses has continued to grow over the years, the story has taken shape with claims of military intimidation, discovered wreckage, and visible alien bodies. There were even supposedly leaked military documents talking about the cover up that one author got his hands on.

S adly, for supporters of the theory, the accounts given are mostly second hand and there is no physical evidence that the Roswell Incident was anything more than what the military claims. Many of the witnesses have been revealed to be hoaxers and even the investigators have reached no consensus on what actually happened. The story has been given new life with Internet postings and leaked documents over the years, but the veracity of these sources is in serious doubt. There was also a film of the alien autopsies at Roswell released in 1995 but the maker, Ray Santilli, later admitted it was faked.

The interesting thing about the Roswell Incident is that it grew and grew as it became more famous. The more the story was reported and developed, the more people began to come forward and give their own accounts of what they saw or, more commonly, what someone they knew said they saw. The fact it was forgotten for over 30 years after it actually happened and then suddenly remembered by an increasing number of people is suspicious to say the least, particularly when one considers that many of these people have benefited directly from their stories.