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In July of 1947 an extra terrestrial ship along with its crew was allegedly recovered by the US Air Force from Roswell, New Mexico. There was an official press release from the military in the area stating that they had captured a flying saucer. A day after this press release the military changed its story and said that the wreckage was only a crashed weather balloon. On July 4th 1947 a rancher named William Brazel found wreckage scattered over his ranch - 30 miles south of Corona. Brazel had found weather balloons on two other occasions, but was unable to recognize the debris in his field. The next day he took some of the wreckage and went into Roswell to show the local sheriff. He met with George Wilcox, the local sheriff, who then contacted Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) to report the strange debris. Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomber group, came to see the wreckage at the sheriff's office. Major Marcel reported his findings to his commanding officer, Colonel William Blanchard, who then ordered Marcel to go to the ranch and collect more of the wreckage. On July 6th Major Marcel took one vehicle and Captain Sheridan Cavitt, another intelligence officer, took a second vehicle to the Brazel ranch. They slept overnight at the Brazel ranch and went to the debris field the next morning. They discovered that the debris covered a large area and they collected enough wreckage to carry in their two cars. The debris contained small bits of tin-foil-like metal and I-beams. These fragments exhibited strange qualities: the tin-foil-like metal could be bent and folded but it would fold back out into its original shape, the I-beams had hieroglyphic writing on them, both items were extremely light-weight and could not be burned, broken, scratched, cut or torn. On his way to the RAAF, Jessie Marcel stopped by his home and woke his family to show them the strange debris. Jessie Marcel had seen weather balloons and rockets before but nothing like what they recovered from the Brazel ranch. The wreckage was then driven to RAAF and transported in a B29 to the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. On July 8, 1947, Colonel Blanchard ordered Second Lieutenant Walter Haut (public information officer of the 509th) to issue a press release telling the world that the military had recovered a crashed a flying saucer. The press release was issued and it caused a worldwide sensation. The military converged on the Brazel ranch and Mr. Brazel was placed under observation. The Brazel ranched was searched by military personnel and allegedly an extra terrestrial craft with four alien bodies was recovered a few kilometers away. The wreckage was brought to the RAAF, it was crated, stored in a hangar and then flown to Wright Patterson Air Force Base. On July 9th, 1947 General Ramey, the Commanding Officer of the Eighth Air Force, held a press conference in his office at the Eighth Air Force Headquarters in Fort Worth Texas. General Ramey announced that what had crashed at the Brazel Ranch was a weather balloon, not a flying saucer. He then showed the press the weather balloon recovered from the ranch. The press interviewed Mr. Brazel on July 9th and found his story had changed. William Brazel now said that he found the wreckage on June 14th but didn't pay much attention to it until July 4th. The wreckage he found consisted of rubber strips, tinfoil, scotch tape, paper and sticks. The events in Roswell, New Mexico during July 1947 have now become known as the Roswell Incident. The Roswell Incident still receives a lot of attention to this day. The US Air Force has come out with three different reports since the Roswell Incident; each with different versions of the story. One thing is for sure, people will continue to be puzzled by the mysterious events surrounding the Roswell Incident.
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Fifty years later, many individuals still believe that the US Air Force recovered an extra terrestrial ship along with its crew at Roswell and covered it up. Skeptics believe that it was merely a weather balloon that was misidentified.
