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Some ufologists and much of the general public have shown interest in the Roswell Reports. Many books and a number of TV movies have been made concerning the alleged events, both fictionalized and more serious studies of the reports. Some supporters of the extraterrestrial hypothesis consider the Roswell case among the most important recorded events, while skeptics point to a lack of evidence and inconsistent eyewitness accounts.

1 Overview

During the first week of July 1947, Mac Brazel, a ranch farmer from New Mexico, discovered a large amount of strange debris scattered widely over his land. The debris possessed physical properties unfamiliar to Mr. Brazel and his neighbors. After the rancher informed local authorities, military personnel arrived, retrieved the debris, and transported it to Roswell Army Airfield; the debris was later flown to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio.

Initial Air Force press releases reported that a "flying disk", "hexagonal in shape" had been recovered, although the story was rapidly changed to say that the crash was in fact a weather balloon. Some conspiracy theorists charge the change in reports was disinformationDisinformation in the context of espionage, military intelligence, and propaganda, is the spreading of deliberately false information to mislead an enemy as to one's position or course of action. Disinformation techniques may also be found in commerce and and that the U.S. governmentA government is an organization that has the power to make and enforce laws for a certain territory. There are several definitions on what exactly constitutes a government. The government has been defined as the dominant decision-making arm (the policy el was withholding or suppressing information.

The Roswell Incident received national attention in 1947, but after the "flying disk" news report was replaced by the weather balloon explanation, the event faded from the mainstream.

2 Renewed Interest

Until 1978, the Roswell incident received little mainstream attention, when researchers Stanton T. Freidman and William L. Moore compared notes from a series of interviews each had conducted independently.

Friedman and Moore interviewed Lydia Sleppy, who worked at an Albuquerque, New MexicoAlbuquerque is a city and the county seat of Bernalillo County, New Mexico U. It is situated in the central part of the state, about 325 miles southwest of Denver, Colorado (444 miles by road on I-25), straddling the Rio Grande. As of the 2000 census, the, radio station in 1947, and United States Air Force Major Jesse A. Marcel . Sleppy claimed that Air Force personnel had stopped reports of the flying disk and its non-human occupants from being publicized. Marcel reported gathering unusual materials near Brazel's ranch.

3 Analysis

Some ufologists have argued an alienFor the 1979 movie, see Alien (movie). For live organisms which are not from Earth, see Extraterrestrial life Aliens are foreigners to their surroundings. The word is commonly used in law to denote non- citizens of the country of their whereabouts, and in craft crashed near Roswell. It is also said that an alien body was found at the crash site, and then moved by military to the infamous Area 51Alternate meaning: Area 51 (video game Area 51 is a parcel of U. military-controlled land in southern Nevada, apparently containing a secret aircraft testing facility. It is also known as Watertown Dreamland Paradise Ranch The Farm The Box and The Directo in NevadaNevada is a state located in the western United States. The population, as of 2000, is 1,998,257. Nevada is the fastest growing state in the country. Between 2000 and 2003, Nevada's population increased 12. 2%, while the USA's population increased 3.. Official reports state that the body was actually a dummy often used during tests.

In 19941994 is a common year starting on Saturday, and was designated the International year of the Family''. Events January events January 1 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) goes into effect January 6 Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an, 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; however, this film showed the alleged surgeons utterly disregarding both conventional surgical and scientific procedure, and for this reason--and many others--is widely considered spurious.

The question remains that if it wasn't a flying saucer, why the initial reports of UFOs and government secrecy? Here are some explanations proposed by Karl T. Pflock in his book Roswell: Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe:

• The initial report of a UFO crash by the military was the blunder of a particular officer suffering from an attack of hubris and caught up in the desire to "scoop" the biggest story he could see, which involved the growing number of UFO sightings. See Kenneth Arnold.
• 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 government secrecy.
• Several years later, an aerial tanker crashed near Roswell and the crew's badly-burned bodies were found. Pflock suggests that this crash merged with later reports in some witnesses' minds, and accounts for unusual reports.

However, if it was a crash of an extraterrestrial craft, as many continue to insist, then some ufologists would argue that several things follow:

• The United States government knows that extraterrestrials have visited our planet but will not admit that fact.
• The U.S. government is currently in possession of alien technology.

As of now, there is still no definite proof to either cause, nor are any of the above conclusions logically implied by the premise. The official denial of anything of an extraterrestrial origin continues, while the conspiracy theorists continue to insist that the officials are lying.

There is some speculation that the Roswell incident is the result of a broken arrow: an accident involving a nuclear weapon. Marcel, a staff intelligence officer with the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office, was responsible for the initial press release that a "flying saucer" had crash-landed. Some have proposed that Marcel created the cover story of a UFO crash, rather than admit that a nuclear weapon had accidentally fallen out of military hands.

Further refuting the UFO theory, recent evidence suggests that the debris was in fact the remains of an observation balloon being used in Project Moghul, a top-secret attempt at examining nuclear activity in the Soviet Union. The balloons used in Project Moghul were extremely strange-looking and would have appeared other-worldly to observers, and the project itself was so heavily classified it is still nearly unknown outside of the higher branches of the US government.