The Day After Roswell: A Former Pentagon Official Reveals the U.S. Government's Shocking UFO Cover-up

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seen what the Japanese had done with long range balloons; although not effective as weapons, they did initiate the long-range balloon research which led to use of balloons for the detection and collection of debris from atomic explosion."

Corso says a covert government group was assembled under the leadership of Adm. Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, the first director of Central Intelligence (see Majestic 12). Among its tasks was to collect all information on off-planet technology. The US administration simultaneously discounted the existence of flying saucers in the eyes of the public, Corso says. Bloecher, Ted (April 29, 1967). Report on the UFO Wave of 1947 (Report). the University of Michigan . Retrieved June 20, 2023. Olmsted, Kathryn S. (2009). "Chapter 6: Trust No One: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theories from the 1970s to the 1990s". Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. Oxford University Press. pp.173–204. ISBN 978-0199753956. Archived from the original on November 23, 2016 . Retrieved March 16, 2016. a b c d "Twin Falls Falling Disc Proves Ingenious Hoax of 4 Teen-age Boys". Deseret News. July 12, 1947. p.9.Kopan, Tal (April 3, 2014). "Bill Clinton phones home on aliens". Politico. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021 . Retrieved April 19, 2021. On December 19, 1979, Marcel was interviewed by Bob Pratt of the National Enquirer, and on February 26, 1980, the tabloid brought large-scale attention to the Marcel story. [64] [65] On September 20, 1980, the TV series In Search of... aired an interview where Marcel described his participation in the 1947 press conference: [66] Lewis, James R. (1995). The Gods have landed: new religions from other worlds. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2329-5.

Jesse Marcel, the army officer who had accompanied the Roswell debris from the ranch to the Fort Worth press conference, was interviewed by Friedman. Marcel reported that the Roswell "weather balloon" was a cover story. [63] In that interview, and others like it, Marcel said he now believed the Roswell debris was extraterrestrial. [7] External videos McAndrew, James (1997). The Roswell report: case closed (PDF). Washington, DC: US Government Printing Office. ISBN 9780160490187. Weather balloon' as cover story for Project Mogul In 1994 and 1997, US Government reports concluded that the Roswell Incident stemmed from a Project MOGUL balloon.a b c d e f Olmsted 2009, p.184: Olmsted writes "When one of these balloons smashed into the sands of the New Mexico ranch, the military decided to hide the project's real purpose." In 1994 and 1997, official government reports (Weaver & McAndrew 1995) concluded (p. 9) "... the material recovered near Roswell was consistent with a balloon device and most likely from one of the MOGUL balloons that had not been previously recovered."

According to anthropologists Susan Harding and Kathleen Stewart, the Roswell Story was a prime example of how a discourse moved from the fringes to the mainstream according to the prevailing zeitgeist: public preoccupation in the 1980s with "conspiracy, cover-up and repression" aligned well with the Roswell narratives as told in the "sensational books" which were being published. [181] Additionally, skeptics and some social anthropologists [182] saw the increasingly elaborate accounts of alien crash landings and government cover-ups as evidence of a myth being constructed. Roswell author who said he handled UFO crash debris dies at 76". Associated Press. August 8, 2013. Archived from the original on January 16, 2023 . Retrieved April 4, 2023– via The Guardian.Aliens Changed Roswell, Even Without Proof". ABC News. Archived from the original on April 18, 2021 . Retrieved April 18, 2021. Peebles 1995, p.244 "Stringfield described the evidence Carr had collected on the Aztec "crash." Carr said he had found five eyewitnesses to the recovery. One (now dead) was a surgical nurse at the alien's autopsy. Another was a high-ranking Air Force officer. Two others were aeronautical engineers who described the UFO's structure and systems. The final witness was an Air Force enlisted man who had been a guard." citing Stringfield (Sept 1979) Retrievals of the Third Kind, part 2 Harding, Thomas (May 13, 2011). "Roswell 'was Soviet plot to create US panic '". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011 . Retrieved February 6, 2013.