THE STORY OF ROSWELL

 

THE STORY OF ROSWELL

 

Sometimes there are tales that spread like wildfire, and that is what happened with the story of Roswell.

 

But it is just a tale, and when you analyze it, it results in such absurdity that sociologists should study it to give us some clues about why people are so open and credulous to admit a story that is absolute nonsense.

 

Three days ago, I suddenly started thinking about this subject, and I came to the conclusion that we have been taken for a ride.

 

But now, ladies and gentlemen, allow me to go step by step to demonstrate rationally and seriously how this story has more holes than a cheese.

 

The Roswell Incident, written by William Moore and co-authored with Charles Berlitz ,(who was the author of the fantasy book “The Bermuda Triangle”), was published in 1980.

 

I began investigating UFO reports and studying the issue in 1958. I can assure you that no one in the international ufology community has heard anything about a place called Roswell, or about something that fell from the sky. When the book appeared, it was a total surprise!

 

However, after a while, the money chasers appeared, rushing to the "case" to profit from it by giving talks and writing books. That is historically what happened. No one can deny this.

 

I acknowledge that some well-intentioned people sought to determine the truth of what happened, as the Army Air issued an official statement claiming it had a flying disc, only to later deny it, stating that it was merely a weather balloon.

 

So, let’s go step by step.

 

1) William Moore was a USAF Intelligence Officer, and as such, he won’t betray his Force. Following the general guidelines to cover-up tests and

experiments with aerial devices, Moore amplified the story. Obviously, that was the book's purpose

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2) According to the general tale, during a stormy night in July 1947, dispersed parts of a big balloon fell over the ranch administered by William McBrazel in Roswell, and far away from there, an aerial artifact crashed somewhere else (Roswell, The Plains of San Agustin, Arabela).

 

3) People saw the artifact. The description given allows us to think about it as a flying wing or something semicircular. And also saw men described as Japanese, possibly because of their features, the short stature, and thin bodies. According to the tale, one was alive and three others were dead inside the aircraft.

 

4) First reflection about the incident: it has to be a small aircraft, comparable with the size of the Grumman TBF Avenger, of the Second World War, that was 12,47 meters long, and had a wingspan of 16,51 meters, with a crew of three men. No one describes an enormous apparatus.

 

5) Let’s assume for a moment that it came from Space as they want us to think. If it were interplanetary (as Donald Keyhoe liked to say) it implies that it had come from some of our fellow planets. There was no one on Mars, so we can think it could come from one of Jupiter’s moons. But it would be a trip considerably bigger than going to the Moon and coming back. Therefore, if this were a small craft, there should have been a big ship orbiting the Earth. But there was nothing.

 

6) If someone thinks that it came from one of the 300 million to 2 billion supposedly habitable planets in our Milky Way, where the nearest potentially habitable planet is Proxima Centauri  b located about 4.24 light-years away, which is equivalent to 39, 8 trillion of kilometers, it is reasonable to think that what has fallen there near Roswell, was a scout ship belonging to a gigantic one, orbiting our Earth. But…it didn’t happen that way!

 

7) Therefore, there is no scape. We are obliged to think of something as terrestrial as each one of us. The idea of something extraterrestrial has to be taken out of our brains as a tooth is extracted from our mouth. Arrived at this point, what could it be?

 

8) The first key reference is the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF). The same from where it came out the official statement that they had recovered a flying disc. After the Kenneth Arnold case (June 24, 1947), the fever of “flying saucers” started in the U.S.; therefore, it was adequate to say something about a “flying disc”. It was a good cover-up. But because it was recovered (not simply found or discovered), it implies that you get what is yours. And that determined that General Roger M. Ramey changed the story, claiming it was a meteorological balloon.

 

9) This case needs to be analyzed with surgical precision because there are two totally different things, although possibly related to one another. One is the aircraft that crashed.  The remains of a gigantic balloon are another matter entirely. The first fell on an open space over a field, the second over the ranch administered by William Mac Brazell.

Nevertheless, when the Roswell Daily Record in its July 8, 1947 edition, under the headline “RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region” wrongly says that  “It was established that Major Marcel and a detachment of his department went to the farm and recovered the disc.”

The material at the ranch was collected into a car and a van. Obviously, a metallic aircraft and its crew members needed a different kind of transportation.

 

10) To establish order in the tale, I tend to say that there was a craft pending from a big balloon. Regrettably, due to a heavy storm in the area, there is a possibility that a ray punctured the large balloon that sustained the aircraft, which continued flying without direction and finally crashed in a field.

 

11) What was that craft? At the beginning, I worked with two hypotheses:

 

 a) a group of fanatic Japanese –flying a Fugo-- wanted to deliver possibly an incendiary bomb at the Roswell Army Air Field as a symbolic act, because it was from there the departure of the B-29 bomber that launched the atomic bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

 

b) a test of a new device by the RAAF (later designed as USAF, on September 18, 1947), within a plan of reconnaissance missions near the Soviet  Union.

 

For that purpose, the RAAF, later the USAF, was experimenting with a concept known as the Lenticular Reentry Vehicle, which consisted of an air craft suspended  by a giant balloon.

According to the plans developed at that time, there were three kinds of vehicles, with 2, 4, and 6 crew members. In the Roswell case, it appears that the model was designed for a crew of 4.

 

Finally, here are drawings of the LRV and the balloon.

 

 

 

Milton W. Hourcade