In the summer of 1947 an Unidentified Flying Object crashed near Roswell, New
Mexico. On July 1st a UFO was tracked on radar screens at Alamagordo, White Sands
& Roswell AAF. The objects flight characteristics defied any known conventional aircraft,
and the object would be observed on radar until July 4th at approximately 11:30 PM
were it flashed suddenly on radar and disappeared from the scopes, indicating a
probable crash. The following reads the actual press release: Parts of a flying saucer
found at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.

Then the Cover Up

Soon after the original press release, General Roger M. Ramey issued the following
statement: It wasn't a flying disc after all, it was a weather balloon.

Jesse Marcel, an officer working on the crash site was quoted saying, "There was a 2nd
crash site 30 miles north of Roswell. I saw the wreckage of a flying saucer, and there
were bodies of 3 aliens. One was alive." The bodies of the aliens and pieces of the
UFO were taken to Hanger 84, never to be seen again.

Project Sign

Project Sign, a secret airforce investigation concluded: UFO's were inter-planetary
vehicles.

Project Blue Book

Project Blue Book concluded: UFO's posed no threat to national security and held no
promise for technology.

Project Blue Book was terminated in 1969 allowing the airforce to ignore any further
UFO reports and to down play any military interests in the phenomenon.
 

Another Cover up! The Air Forces' Final Word on Roswell, July 1997

What was discovered at Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947, was debris from a formerly
top-secret army/airforces research project Code Name "Mogul."

"Mogul" was an attempt to acoustically detect Soviet nuclear blasts and ballistic missile
launches. "Mogul" used an odd assortment of equipment carried aloft by a balloon train
more than 600 feet long. This balloon train consisted of twenty-five balloons, attached
acoustic devices, and several radar deflectors that look like box kites. In 1947 it was the
misidentification of these radar reflectors that is most likely the famous flying disc.