There is a hypothesis that the famous UFO crash in 1947 near Roswell (USA) is just the fall of one of the reconnaissance probes launched by the Americans to collect spy information in the USSR.
Was there a UFO?
Vladimir Vasiliev, senior researcher at the Institute for US and Canadian Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, citing materials from the American Air Force, wrote that, starting in 1947, the United States of America, within the framework of the secret program "Project Mogul", launched meteorological balloons that were supposed to track nuclear tests in Sovetskoye. Union.
US President Bill Clinton once stated that he, as the head of state, was not provided with convincing evidence of the UFO crash near Roswell, although he requested information about this.
How many probes were launched?
According to the "Roswell Report", prepared and published by the US Air Force headquarters in 1995, there were about 100 launches of spy weather balloons, and they were conducted from June 1947 to February 1949.
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The chief of staff of the White House under Bill Clinton, John Podesta, officially stated in 2002 that there was no UFO crash in the "zone 51", but did not specify what actually happened near Roswell in 1947.
Was the project top secret?
Boris Shurinov, President of the Russian Ufological Society, author of the Roswell Riddle, cites facts in his research that indicate that the Americans initially tried to cover up their intelligence activities, disguising it as a history of the crash of an unidentified flying object.
American ufologist Carl Pflok in his report on the Roswell case wrote that it was not a flying saucer that crashed there, but a bunch of balloons - a reconnaissance vehicle launched by the US Air Force as part of the Mogul project from the Holloman Air Force base. According to Pflok, the Mogul project received a high level of secrecy, however, as Shurinov writes, the work on the creation of spy acoustic probes became known back in the second half of the 40s, in particular, New York University was engaged in this. The equipment suspended from neoprene and polyethylene balloons was supposed to record shock waves from explosions at nuclear test sites of the USSR. In reality, the effectiveness of these probes was low, they fell without staying in the air for several hours. According to Pflok's report, some of the fallen probes were never found,the rest crashed in various parts of the United States, mainly near the military base from where they were launched. Pflok wrote that the probes had a special metal plate with the inscription, which said about the reward for the one who found the probe.
The effectiveness of these launches in terms of intelligence gathering is questioned by many researchers, mainly due to its high cost. Subsequently, these probes were replaced by seismic detectors, which were much cheaper and more functional.
