Perhaps one of the most memorable Days of US Independence, celebrated on July 4, fell on 1947, when, in addition to traditional salutes and fireworks, the sky over the United States was “illuminated” by the trail of a “flying saucer”. No joke - in the small town of Roswell in the state of New Mexico, a UFO crashed to earth!
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However, over the past 70 years, neither the military, nor the ufologists have been able to agree on an unambiguous opinion - was the alien ship really or not. And what is it - a frank invention or hiding some kind of super secret?
So what is known about the so-called Roswell incident, during which our planet, and in particular the territory of America, was visited by aliens who were shipwrecked? One of the main characters of this story is a local farmer William Braisel, who heard a sound like an explosion at night and saw a powerful flash of light in the sky. One would assume that old William drank a hefty dose of whiskey on the eve of Independence Day and that he imagined everything during a severe thunderstorm that happened at that time.
But the next day, going in search of his sheep, he found nearby the wreckage of some kind of aircraft, or a meteorological balloon. The farmer reported to the local sheriff, who alerted the military at a nearby airbase. A certain Colonel William Blanchard, after analyzing the situation, ordered the publication of a statement in local newspapers, the essence of which was that a certain flying disc had indeed been discovered, which had been delivered to Roswell Air Base.
However, a few days later, the American military hastened to disown this statement and, through the lips of General Reimi, reported that a weather balloon had just crashed in this region. After that, the farmer stopped communicating with the press altogether, and the lack of the Internet and communications in those days completely ruled out receiving any information - selfies against the background of the "plate" could not appear by definition. The Americans were content with an official statement and soon the incident that occurred on Independence Day in Roswell was simply forgotten. But years later they started talking about him again.
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In the late 70s of the last century, an interview was published with the head of the reconnaissance department of the 509th air regiment, Major Jesse Marcel, who served at the base in Roswell. According to the major, which immediately became a sensation, the fragments found were not fragments of a weather balloon, but belonged to an unidentified flying object of unearthly origin. There were also many witnesses from among the local residents who claimed that they saw more than twenty years ago not only the flying saucer itself, but also the aliens who died as a result of the disaster.
“When it comes to paranormal phenomena, we must immediately include the factor of faith in the analysis,” says Alexander Zimovsky, an expert on the analysis and formation of behavioral patterns. - And, accordingly, the factor of disbelief (skepticism). These factors are necessary in the analysis of such a phenomenon as UFOs. You believe it or you don't. The rest of the evidence base serves only to support the arguments of the parties.
In the case of the Roswell incident, the bibliography of a subject alone could be tens of thousands of volumes. However, discarding the unnecessary, we will easily see that we are faced with a dilemma: the current state of scientific and technical thought versus scientific (scientific, I emphasize) fiction. Here's an example. Our Tunguska meteorite, 40 years before Roswell. Falling in a remote area. A few eyewitnesses. The inaccessibility of the crash site and, most importantly, the extremely slow communication system. The meteorite was visible within a radius of 600 kilometers from the flight path in the atmosphere. The observatories of that time recorded it to the best of their ability. And the first expedition reached him only twenty years later. No excitement, which is typical. That is, science and the public already knew about meteorites, read, observed, described. Therefore, everything was clear - a meteorite, only a large one. Then the First World War, revolutions … and the topic was gone.
It was different in Roswell. The event became known in a matter of hours, well, or days. Immediately, the authorities, civil and military, appeared, there were leaks and leaks in the media. By the way, the world's observatories have not recorded anything. But the press has already accepted the information feed. The UFO phenomenon has gone to the masses. And the masses were ready to swallow it. There was already a scientific, psychological and information base for this.
Look: the atomic bomb, missiles, jet planes, radio, early television, the Cold War - these are all realities of 1947. Add to this the already established tradition of science fiction, including in films. Hollywood is still experimenting in this direction, but bless the Americans. By the way, Belyaev's space novel "The Star of the CEC" was released 12 years before Roswell. Space was already then, in a sense, not alien to us. In such a situation, the phenomenon of the Roswell incident was doomed to the widest replication. But I want to draw your attention to the fact that it was at the very first stage that there was no excitement about UFOs in the States."
In February 1994, at the request of Congressman Stephen Schiff, the General Office of Control of the United States Congress began an investigation into the Roswell incident. During its holding, nothing was discovered that could prove the visit of the Earth by aliens - no documents, no evidence. Another circumstance became clear - in the late 1940s, the United States was actively developing a program to monitor the testing of Soviet atomic weapons. The project was called "Mogul". The rather bulky design itself consisted of meteorological balloons and equipment capable of tracking sound waves. Probably, as follows from the report, in 1947 near Roswell just such a structure collapsed to the ground, the secrecy of which was very high, because the American military quickly removed all its large parts to hangars. During the tests, these probes were equipped with dummies with sensors,who were supposed to record the level of radiation and a shock wave during the explosion of an atomic bomb - their local residents could be mistaken for aliens. There is also an explanation for the particularly durable material found at the site of the alleged fall of the "saucer", which bent, but immediately took its previous shape - during these years, the Americans were testing outlandish then polyester, which could be used in the casing of weather balloons.
The Mogul program was assigned the highest level of secrecy, which explains the desire of the American authorities to hush up the incident. It can be assumed that in the course of those experiments, a certain threat to the life of the American citizens themselves, who could become victims, say, of a nuclear explosion in the same semi-desert state of New Mexico, was envisaged. And the fall of the probe prevented some kind of catastrophe, the probability of which was immediately classified and a version with aliens was invented.
The first sensational documentary by the British film journalist Ray Santilli "Alien Autopsy - Fact or Fiction" (1995), which showed the autopsy footage of the alien, which the US military found near Roswell, became at first sensational. Specialists, primarily pathologists, immediately saw a fake in it because of the numerous blunders during the "operation". The very same body of the alien was nothing more than a dummy. But the surge of interest in aliens was extraordinary - this topic was not discussed except perhaps by a lazy one.
“The US authorities (like the USSR) have very tightly, since the Second World War, controlled the information flow,” continues Alexander Zimovsky. - This is, firstly. And secondly, no one tried to question the information coming from the American military authorities. Once it was said that a meteorological balloon fell, it means that a meteorological balloon fell. Everyone immediately calmed down and moved on to other topics. Exactly thirty years. Until the 70s, the Roswell topic did not come up.
Since I am not a ufologist or astrophysicist, I propose to look at the problem from the point of view of information confrontation. Suppose the US military gained access to a UFO in Roswell. First reaction? These could be Tips. Well, just because there is nobody else. We looked: no, not like the Soviets. We classified it and started processing the available data. Simply put, they began to investigate the wreckage of a hypothetical ship and the bodies of hypothetical aliens. For what? For military use. A very good version. There is no doubt that the Soviet Union would have done the same.
However, no breakthrough in military technology and weapons in the United States happened. In 1949, Stalin already had our Soviet nuclear bomb and delivery vehicles. And ten years after the Americans, hypothetically, gained access to UFOs and related technologies, the USSR went into space. We went out. And Wernher von Braun still pored over his V-2, trying to bring it to mind for American customers.
The Amazon Indians would benefit more from a UFO crash than the Pentagon. Simply because they could make from the fragments of all utensils and spearheads. So there is no need to talk about the effectiveness of secret programs for the study of paranormal space activity. From the captured aliens did not come out, I believe, neither Snowdens, nor Penkovskys of a cosmic scale.
Of course, UFOs and aliens have been monetized in today's language. In the end, all "Star Treks" and "Star Wars" became possible precisely thanks to the assumption of the possibility of space flight and the existence of a different, unearthly mind. But technically, we still cannot repeat the landing of a man on the moon. Neither through the efforts of the world powers separately, nor within the framework of a joint project. You will involuntarily believe that the newcomers will come to us earlier."
Victor Sokirko