(Vientiane History Special Author: Tao Sheng)
Roswell Incident: The most famous "alien event" in history, the truth is still difficult to find more than 70 years later
(UFO Museum in Roswell)
Late on the night of July 4, 1947, thunder and heavy rain poured over Roswell, New Mexico, in the southwestern United States. Despite the loud thunder, 49-year-old farmer Brezel was awakened by the loud explosion. This sound is at least 100 times louder than thunder. Waiting until the rain stopped, he hurried out to see if his flock was all right.
About 400 meters away from the farm, fragments of metal that had never been seen before were scattered, and a large area of charred grass was all around. Bretzer took the pieces he had picked up and handed them to the sheriff, who went to inquire about the nearby air base. On the 7th, 2 officers, led by Brezel, came to the scene and transported a large number of things back to the air base by truck.
On July 8, Roswell's Daily Chronicle published news that the military had found a fallen flying saucer that would be sent to the Air Force's 8th Army headquarters for further inspection. The news came out and caused a sensation throughout the country.
But just six hours later, Roger Reme, commander-in-chief of the 8th Army, denied the claim. He said no flying saucer had been found, just the wreckage of a balloon with a radar reactor.
(Reported by the Daily Chronicle)
The local radio station also received an order from Washington: "Do not broadcast flying saucer news!" The next day, the newspaper also made a special clarification that the unidentified object that fell was a weather balloon, not a flying saucer! It was even simply said that Bretzer did not hear the explosion at all.
This inconsistent report has aroused people's suspicions even more, and it feels that there must be some big secret hidden. Countless curious people flocked to Roswell to catch a glimpse of the flying saucer. However, the scene was full of soldiers with live ammunition within a radius of 20 kilometers and could not be approached. Since then, the military has been silent, and the incident has become even more confusing.
(Stills from the movie "The Blue Book Project")
Since then, the U.S. Air Force has conducted a nationwide investigation into UFOs. In 1952, the United States officially implemented the "Blue Book Project", which opened the curtain on the UFO investigation. The Blue Book Project lasted for 17 years until it was terminated in 1969, setting off a boom in attention to flying saucers.
However, the Blue Book Project's investigation report did not find any evidence from the alien flying saucer. There is no mention of the Roswell incident, not even the "UFO incident".
(Information related to the event)
It was not until 1978 that a person suddenly appeared, which made the incident attract the attention of the world again. His name was Mather, and he was a U.S. military intelligence officer at the time, claiming that what he had seen at the scene was either the wreckage of the balloon or a flying saucer. In order to cover up the truth of the matter, he was ordered to take a "fake photo" of a weather balloon.
Some local residents also jumped out to claim that they had seen the alien corpses with their own eyes. Someone also wrote to the FBI director that intelligence agents of the "Blue Book Project" had found many clues that year, but did not mention anything in the report. Things are boiling over.
In 1993, at the request of a lawmaker, the military reopened an investigation into the Roswell affairs of 46 years ago. The following year, an investigative report was published, saying there was no evidence that the incident was related to aliens. The report believes that the strange metal fragments found at the scene are related to the "Moghur Plan" of the US military.
The Mogul Program was a top-secret military test conducted by the United States in June and July 1947. It monitored Soviet nuclear test explosions by releasing balloons carrying radar reflectors and sound sensors. The U.S. Air Force dropped multiple of these balloons and did not recover them. Metal fragments found at the scene were the remnants of a missing balloon.
In 1995, however, events took off again. On August 28, in prime time on American television, a documentary was broadcast. Various TV stations have announced that this is "the first movie of human dissecting 'aliens'", "the most powerful evidence that aliens have ever been to the earth", and "the latest discovery that will shake the 6,000-year civilization of mankind".
The documentary tells the scene of the US military secretly dissecting alien corpses after the Roswell incident, and the film also shows President Truman at the scene of the autopsy. The producers claimed that the film was taken by an 82-year-old U.S. military photographer with a seal from AAA, the U.S. military's highest level of secrecy.
(Scene in the film dissecting aliens)
After the film was broadcast, the world was shocked and questioned. The 5 aliens in the film have huge individual differences, but they look no different from the earthlings. Looking back at the historical record, it was found that Truman had never been to New Mexico at the time, and the national military had never had such a classified level as AAA. There are also more costume shots, such as the walkie-talkie, which was not invented in the 40s, and the characters in the film are wearing coats on a hot july day.
Ten years later, in April 2006, British television stuntman Hamfires publicly admitted that he had forged the documentary. The film was not shot in 1947, but in 1995, in his own apartment.
The farce finally came to light, and the Roswell incident was more mysterious, but this greatly stimulated people's curiosity, and various scientific research projects for the exploration of extraterrestrial life, as well as various science fiction film and television works, have also been released since then.
(The 730th work of the Vientiane History and Biography Writing Camp, and the 80th work of camper "Tao Sheng")