The Roswell IncidentEdward OBrienMarch 13, 1997CP-11 Period 6OutlineThesis: The Roswell Incident, which enlightened our minds to thecapacity of excepting, has remained one of the mostcontroversial issues issues today.
I. Introduction to ExtraterrestrialsA. Standpoints on Extraterrestrials1. Society’sa. Pastb. Present2.
Government’sa. Pastb. PresentII. Roswell, New MexicoA.
What Exactly Happened1. Who Discovered the Wreckage2. Discoveries3. BodiesB.
Testing in Roswell, New Mexico1. Military Testing in RoswellIII. The Cover-upA. Wreckage1. UFO2.
BodiesB. The Weather Balloon1. The Balloona. Composite of the BalloonC.
Witnesses1. The Nurses at Roswell, AAF2. The YearbookIV. Alien AutopsyA. BodiesB. AuthenticityV.
ConclusionA. Controversy ContinuesB. Final ThoughtsThe Roswell IncidentThe Roswell Incident, which enlightened our minds to the capacity ofexcepting all, has remained one of the most controversial issues today. InRoswell, New Mexico, 1947, a strange occurrence arises. An alien craft fromouter space crashed in an open field.
The issue lay still for almost thirtyyears, until the thought of a government cover-up arose. Society’s opinions have changed over the years. Previous to the 1990’s,people have despised the thought of sharing the universe with other intelligentlife forms. Now people are interested in this mysterious phenomenon.
Peoplethink it is the blame of the movies and television. By watching this, people areat a level at which they understand. Not only do these movies entertain, theyinform people about the little information we obtained from the government. The thought of government cover-ups have been long discussed.
Thegovernment has always, in the past, tried to keep any sign of aliens, whether itbe pictures from space, to crashes on earth, to a low or nonexistent level. Justrecently has the government been harassed to the point where they actually gaveus clues to alien existence. It has in some ways been believed that thegovernment has worked in partnership with popular movie directors, to producealien movies to ease the thought that we may not be alone. Such movies as TheArrival and the ever popular Independence Day are very good examples of wellconvincing alien movies. If this is true, they did a good job, becausestatistics state that 75% of people today believe that there is some kind ofintelligent life forms besides ourselves in the universe. That is veryconvincing compared to the 20% whom believed 25 years ago.
New opinions arealways suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because theyare not already common. (MacGowan 261)A local New Mexico rancher, MacBrazel, while riding out in the morningto check his sheep after a long night of thunderstorms, discovered aconsiderable amount of debris. It created a gouge several hundred feet long andwas scattered over a large area. Some of the debris had strange physicalproperties. He took some debris to show his neighbors then his son. Soon afterthat he notified the sheriff.
The sheriff then contacted the authorities atRoswell Army Air Field Base. The are was closed off and the debris waseventually flown by B-29 and C-54 aircraft to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. ANew York Daily News article says . . . either conclusive proof extraterrestrialshave indeed visited earth, or one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever perpetuatedon the public.
. . . . (Dominquez). Besides the wreckage that was found, therewere three objects which were highly debated about.
Three bodies, two found dead,the other to die in a couple of weeks. Whether or not the bodies were actuallyfound, is only determined by the few witnesses who claim to have seen the bodies. A few of these people turned out to be very highly respected military officers. Some people say that the bodies were human which have been exposed to theradiation. This radiation could have been caused, due to nuclear weapons thatRoswell Army Air Base had been testing, since they were at the time the onlysquadron which had authorization to nuclear weapons. This theory was discountedby most, saying that this kind of deformation would have caused a human being todie before such damage could occur.
Albert Einstein once said: . . . . I amconvinced that, there is an absolute truth.
If there can’t be absolute truth,there cannot be a relative truth. (MacGowan 289) The government has been blamedwith covering up this whole event. They have been claimed to have shipped offthe wreckage to Dayton, Ohio, to avoid publicity. Which is normal, to prevent aworldwide panic.
The bodies however, were not as lucky to have not become public,yet. The government has, and will always say that the wreckage found was asecret spy balloon. The people who have seen the wreckage, and believe that’swhat it was, describe it as a bundle of tinfoil, broken wood, beams , and rubberremnants of a balloon. Most discount this because, why would the government bemessing around with balloons, if they were exploring the characteristics of jetfighters.
Yes, the wreckage did seem like tin foil, at first, until you held thematerial, which if you bent, twisted, and did anything you dreamed up of, wouldstill return to its original shape. They have tried to burn and shoot through itand had unsuccessfully destroyed it. It is thought that the government has usedthis to they’re benefit, and discovered its properties to use on future planes,but this has not yet been yet proven, since no planes known are thisindestructible. Glenn Davis, a respected business man in Roswell, was called by afriend, General Exon, asked how to seal and preserve bodies that have beenexposed to the alien materials.
Davis did not know the answer to this question,since he did not know much of the incident. Later that night he made a trip tothe base hospital, outside the back entrance he spotted two military vans withthe rear doors open, from which large pieces of wreckage protruded. Once insidehe encountered a young nurse whom which he knew, at the same instance, he wasnoticed by military police which escorted him from the building. The next day he met up with the nurse at a coffee shop. She explainedthat she had been called upon to help two doctors disect to small bodies, whichshe thought to be alien. She drew a diagram on a napkin showing an outline ofthier features.
That meeting was to be thier last; as she was transferred toEngland a few days later. Today the nurse would be sixty-nine years old. Investigators are trying to locate her. Five nurses are pictured in the 1947Roswell Air Field yearbook. The files of all five are strangely missing frommilitary records. A couple of years ago a report on Fox television network broadcasted ashow called Alien Autopsy.
This show was mainly about what happened to thebodies which were recovered from the Roswell crash site. Bodies were showedbeing dissected on video tape. The whole process of the dissection is like this:One of the two people first examined the body. He then with a surgical knife,cut open the neck down to the belly, and took out the organs. As for the head,he found that the eyes of this body were covered with two black membranes, whichwere easily removed with tweezers.
Lastly, he cut open the scull and took outthe brain. The other person seemed to be responsible for recording the wholeprocess. People at first thought this whole movie was a joke until they openedthe bodies up. Steven Speilberg even stated :There is no way these bodiescould be fake , due to the high complexity of the inner organs, not only wouldit have been impossible then, it also practically impossible to replicate themnow, and if it were possible it would cost us millions of dollars to replicate,or even try to replicate them. Kodak film company has done their own testing onthe actual film on which the footage had been filmed. They had verified that thefilm was made in the 1940’s.
In the film, when it zoomed up on the bodies,blurred. This was thought to purposely done to hide detail, but in fact camerasin the 1940’s had no focus on objects that were to close to it. There were evenpeople who are claimed to be eyewitnesses of the crash of the UFO in Roswell,and strongly believed that the body appeared in this film, was one of the threefound in this incident. Even though there is a lot of information which points to the programbeing real, there is a lot which point to its falsehood.
The government wantedto keep this at a very low-key. They still insisted that the crash in Roswellwas still a military balloon. However, a congressman wanted the government toopen all the document related to the Roswell Incident, the reply was that all ofdocuments were destroyed! What did the government want to cover? If they wantedto cover the fact that aliens came to earth, why did they let the show air tothe public? Of course, if the film is false, it doesn’t matter. There also some differences in the body in the broadcast, and thedescriptions from the witnesses. The most obvious is of which the fingers in themovie have six fingers and toes, while the witnesses from Roswell said they hadonly four.
It is said that the UFO had exploded in the air, if that were thecase, then the bodies would have been severely burned. In Alien Autopsy, theonly injury on the body, was the cut on the right leg. The dissection room inwhich it was taken was much too simple. The people in the movie are wearingnormal dissection clothes, if it were a true alien, then why not try to preventyourselves from catching some out of this world disease.
Lastly , people saythat the bodies are to similar to human bodies, and that the bodies just mightbe abnormal humans. Like many people do, we think aliens may look similar to us. By chance there may be aliens that resemble us, or we may resemble them. For obvious reasons, it is necessary that the military services and theintelligence agencies impose a certain amount of secrecy. In recent decades,however, many observers say: that the use of government secrecy has becomeexcessive. Secrecy tantamount to power and, like power, lends itself to abuse.
Behind the shield of secrecy, it is possible for an agency or service to avoidscrutiny and essentially operate outside the law. Accountability to thetaxpayers, and to the Congress, can be conveniently avoided. Perhaps this is amajor reason the U. S. annual black budget has climbed to a staggering $25billion a year.
Secrecy, like power, is not readily relinquished.As we all know we will never know the true story of which happened inRoswell, New Mexico in 1947, but it is up to us to decide for ourselves.Science
