For the first time, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation decided to comment on the document about the so-called "Roswell incident", which even today, 66 years later, excites the minds of ufologists and fans of the cult series X-Files.
This one-page memo, dated March 22, 1950, addressed to the then FBI Director, the legendary Edgar Hoover, was declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and published in the FBI Vault in 2011. Over the past two years, it has received almost a million views, and, obviously, it was the huge public interest, as well as misinterpretations in the media, that forced the bureau to come up with explanations.
"The content of the document was far from ordinary," the FBI admits on its website. However, in reality, this note "does not at all prove the existence of a UFO," the message emphasizes, but only once again leads to a dead end, without giving any answers. "The secret remains …" - the bureau slyly declares to the readers of its website, as if even in the spirit of Agent Mulder from those "X-Files", who believed that "the truth is somewhere near."
This memo is not even a sensation and may not refer to the Roswell incident at all, the FBI admonishes. First, it was declassified in the late 1970s and was available on the agency's website for several years before it was transferred to the electronic archive, after which the document suddenly became incredibly popular. Secondly, it is dated 1950, while the events in Roswell took place three years earlier - in July 1947. "There is no reason to believe that they are related," comments the bureau.
It immediately offers a possible explanation: after the Roswell incident, FBI agents, on behalf of Edgar Hoover, who, in turn, approached the Air Force command, checked any reports of alleged UFO sightings. This practice stopped exactly three years later - in July 1950. Accordingly, the memorandum dated March of that year was still subject to verification. It can be assumed that the story outlined in the document was not found worthy of investigation, the FBI concludes.
The author of the report was agent Guy Hottel. He recounted what he had heard from a "third party" who, in turn, referred to an Air Force investigator. He testified that "three so-called flying saucers were found in New Mexico", they were "objects of a round shape with a thickening in the middle, with a diameter of approximately 50 feet" (15 meters).
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The note went on to say that “in each of them there were three bodies of human shape, but only three feet tall” (90 centimeters). The bodies, the narrator testified, were dressed "in a very fine structure of metal fabric" and "each body was bandaged in a manner reminiscent of test pilot suits."
Finally, the memorandum stated that the whistleblower suspected that the flying saucers crashed in New Mexico "due to the fact that the authorities have very powerful radar there, and it is believed that the radiation from the radar damaged the control mechanisms of the saucers." The document ends with a phrase stating that the agent did not make any attempts to continue the investigation.
Since the publication of this note on the FBI Vault website in 2011, many ufologists and the media have considered it as proof that aliens did crash in Roswell. For many years it was believed that the authorities were hiding the fact of an alien invasion attempt, hiding behind the version that only fragments of a meteorological probe were found in this town. Rumors were fueled by the stories of some military personnel, as if there were UFO parts after all.
And in 1995, all lovers of ufology were delighted with the "secret video from the archives of the US government", in which the "alien autopsy" took place. However, they did not triumph for long - a year later it turned out that it was a fake, which its author, British musician and video producer Ray Santilli, personally admitted in a TV interview. As a result, Britain's The Daily Telegraph included the "alien autopsy" in its five greatest pranks that fooled the world.