THE UFO MYSTERY GROWS
On June 10, 1998, a follow-up CNN/Time poll revealed that 27 percent of all
Americans believed that space aliens have visited Earth and 80 percent believed
that the U.S. government is conducting a cover-up of the alien presence.
The most prevalent conspiracy theory contends that the government learned the
truth about UFOs at the site of the Roswell, New Mexico, crash in 1947 when the
military recovered alien corpses. A secret group known as Majestic-12 keeps the
U.S. president and other world leaders briefed on the progress of alien
activity on Earth. While the governments of Earth officially deny the existence
of UFOs to prevent panic among the masses, the chief executives are well aware
of the existence of extraterrestrial involvement in world affairs. An arm of
the U.S. "shadow" government, in association with the Illuminati, an alleged
worldwide secret society, made a deal with the alien invaders to trade advanced
extraterrestrial technology for such Earth resources as water, minerals,
cattle—and certain of its citizenry. UFO abductions are conducted by aliens as
a species-monitoring program. Physical examinations of humans and crossbreeding
attempts involving preselected men and women are allowed by the government as a
treaty concession.
[...]
On June 24, 1997—the 50th anniversary of Kenneth Arnold's sighting of the
flying saucers in Washington State—the United States Air Force conducted a
special Pentagon briefing and announced its answer to the charges of a
conspiracy at Roswell in the document The Roswell Report: Case Closed. This publication, stated Colonel John Haynes, would be the Air Force's final
word concerning 50 years of accusations that the government was hiding evidence
of extraterrestrial visitation. The debris found at the crash site outside of
Roswell were fragments from a balloon from Project Mogul, a top-secret
intelligence gathering operation, that had commenced immediately after the end
of World War II (1945). Its mission had been to spy on the Soviets and to
monitor their nuclear program; therefore, the cover-up had been necessary for
purposes of national security.
The air force report went on to state that the alleged bodies seen around the
crash site were not those of extraterrestrial beings, but were dummies, roughly
the size of humans, that had been used in experiments with high-altitude
parachutes. After each of the experimental drops, which had begun in 1953, air
force personnel would retrieve the simulated human forms. Apparently, folks
around Roswell had observed some of these recovery missions and thought that
they had witnessed military personnel picking up alien bodies.
UFO researchers scorned such an explanation of the alleged crash debris having
been a balloon and the true nature of the alien corpses having been parachute
dummies. And then there was the question of how those witnesses who claimed to
have seen wreckage of a flying saucer and the bodies of its extraterrestrial
crew in 1947 could have confused the event with the discovery of dummies
dropped over the desert near Roswell in 1953.
Colonel Haynes explained the six-year discrepancy between the events as a
manifestation of the mental phenomenon of "time compression" on the part of the
witnesses. Time compression, he stated, occurs when one's memory melds events
separated by many years into "compressed" segments of time. Civilians who
witnessed the crash site of a weather balloon in 1947 and, six years later, saw
air force personnel retrieving crash dummies dropped from the skies, recalled
the two events as one in their compressed memories.
[...]
As UFO investigations enter the twenty-first century, the mystery grows
unabated. On July 26, 1952, UFOs made national headlines when they were sighted
over Washington, D.C. The mysterious objects were detected on civilian and
military radar screens and fighter planes were dispatched to investigate.
Exactly 50 years later to the day, July 26, 2002, the North American Aerospace
Defense Command (NORAD) scrambled two D.C. Air National Guard F-16 jets out of
Andrews Air Force Base to investigate unknown aerial craft over the nation's
capital.
Accusations of government cover-ups and conspiracies continue, and the old
stories of secret agencies and aliens conspiring to deceive humankind circulate
freely. The media report strange occurrences such as crop circles and cattle
mutilations. Late-night radio talk shows feature bizarre accounts of the air
force's Area 51 and of scientists working in underground laboratories to
back-engineer the wreckage of alien space vehicles. And some individuals argue
that the alien interference in the events of planet Earth may go back even to
the days of World War II (1939–45) and such controversial endeavors as the
Philadelphia Experiment.
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UFOs - "Washington Invasion" (July 1952)
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