On July 8, 1947, the #Dallas field office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation sent a teletype message saying that the Air Force had recovered “an object purporting to be a flying disc ... near Roswell, N.M. The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a ballon [sic] by a cable,” the FBI noted, and “the object found resembles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.”
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From day one, that’s the story the government has stuck with - the crash was a research balloon, not a flying saucer, and there were no little green men, just some military guys running around in uniforms.
A local #newspaper immediately trumpeted in a headline that the government had recovered a “flying saucer,” but the Air Force would later note that “from 1947 until the late 1970s, the #Roswell Incident was essentially a non-story” that only came to life when conspiracists later cobbled together reports from second- and third-hand witnesses claiming to have seen alien bodies.
From then until now, 65 years after the crash, the fringe belief of alien life on #Earth has become fused into the American #popular psyche to the point of high-grossing cultural fixation -- from “Battle #LosAngeles” to “#independenceday ” and from “#Avengers” to “#Battleship.” There’s even the subtle suggestion coming out of Hollywood that America’s military has gotten so powerful in the post-Soviet era that the only truly threatening enemies can come from outer #space.
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