Man has been pondering the existence of aliens
for some time. Even in Ancient Rome, the poet Titus Lucretius
Carus talked about not being alone in the universe. But, throughout history, a person had to be
careful about speculating on the existence of other worldly beings given they might be
called a heretic for doing so. No one really knows exactly when the little
green men first appeared on the scene, but we could say that it was the 1950s that was
the heyday for fictional stories about aliens, sometimes at the helm of flying saucers. This was an era of many sightings, and it
seems those little creatures often chose the USA to do a flyover. One particular incident stands out from them
all, and that’s what we’ll talk about today, in this episode of the Infographics
Show, Evidence That Aliens Did Come to Roswell. It was the summer of 1947 and the people of
Roswell, New Mexico, in the USA, were about to get the shock of their lives. It was a quiet place then, and still today
there are only around 50,000 people living there. What occurred, though, became such a cause
celebre that the place has kind of been turned into an alien-themed city. But what exactly did happen? Well, if you look at the front page of the
Roswell Daily Record on July 8, 1947, the headline for the main story was, “RAAF Captures
Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell Region.” Now that’s the kind of headline that these
days might elicit most people to say the words “fake news”, but back then people were
dead serious about the possibility of there being aliens in their midst. It all started on a hot afternoon when a rancher
found some debris in his sheep field, and that debris, many people would speculate,
was from an alien ship. What did this wreckage consist of? In 2013, The Guardian published a story about
the death of a man called Jesse Marcel Jr., and he said he had gotten his hands on that
debris, as his father was part of the investigation. He’d lived an exciting life, travelling
the world talking about the debris and aliens in general. His wife said this of him: “He was credible. He wasn't lying. He never embellished, only told what he saw.” Both son and father believed the debris was
not of this world, being taken aback by a strange-looking purple beam with hieroglyphics
on it. There were also lots of metallic sticks, reflectors,
and strips of a thin glossy material. What on Earth could that be? The air force said there was nothing strange
about it, and the wreckage was merely that of a weather balloon. You can see the pictures, however it certainly
doesn’t look anything like a weather balloon. But was it parts of a flying saucer? Many people seemed to think so and accused
the military of a cover-up. Matters weren’t helped when the air force
started doing “dummy drops” in the area throughout the 50s. As if they were purposefully stoking the imaginations
of the local people, the air force started dropping dummies from planes that had latex
skin and aluminum bones in order to better understand how pilots might survive high altitude
falls. But the thing was, shiny dummies dropping
from the sky after weird wreckage was found in a field just made people think something
was amiss. Again, the military didn’t help matters
by being so secretive. Not only was it dropping these dummies from
the sky, it had been working on something called Project Mogul. This was top secret and involved using high-altitude
balloons carrying low-frequency sound sensors. The military hoped these sensors, when flown
into the tropopause, would be able to record through a sound channel for thousands of miles,
thereby enabling the US to spy on the Soviet Union’s nuclear program. As you might guess, they were made from futuristic-looking
material and not something most people had ever seen before. The New York Times said the following about
these balloons: “It was like having an elephant in your backyard and hoping that no one would
notice it.” According to History.com, what the rancher
found in his field was one of these balloons, described as a, “700-foot-long string of
neoprene balloons, radar reflectors (for tracking) and sonic equipment.” The problem was, that even those working at
the Roswell base didn’t know about this very top-secret project, so even for military
men, that strange debris looked alien. Advanced technology to spy on Russia was of
course a cat you just couldn’t let out of the bag. It didn’t help matters when the people that
did know about the project made up the feeble weather balloon story, which even to the untrained
eye was an obvious lie. We might also add that the military didn’t
say anything about Project Mogul until the 1990s. Sounds fishy, eh? So, that’s the official story, but it’s
a story that has been called by many, the biggest alien cover-up the world has ever
seen. There are many reasons why this is. Firstly, the military’s reputation was at
stake, and making up a flimsy story about a weather balloon doesn’t really make any
sense. Those initial investigators were intelligent
men, and to think they would have been mistaken about an object not from this world is perhaps
not congruent with their expertise. It would be the same today if military investigators
made such a claim, and then the big dogs at the Pentagon just told us that the whole thing
had been a mistake. The officers actually put themselves, their
careers and their reputations, on the line. Saying they had found an alien object was
a big deal and as we know, at least one of those investigators died believing that’s
what they had found. So, we must take this into account, the fact
that serious people who understood military hardware said they’d found part of an alien
ship. They had nothing to gain from making the story
up, in fact, they had a lot to lose. To strengthen this point, we might look at
the nuclear physicist and ufologist Stanton Terry Friedman. He was one of the main investigators; a supremely
intelligent man and not some part-time armchair conspiracy theorist. He eventually left the military and spent
the rest of his life studying UFOs. He has testified in front of congress and
written scores of papers, explaining the existence of aliens and their machines. He believed that something called the “Majestic
Twelve” group of politicians, military people and scientists, had covered up the incident
at Roswell, and a document titled “Operation Majestic Twelve” that described the incident
in detail, was very much real and truthful. Others, including some ufologists, have called
these papers an elaborate hoax. The FBI investigated the case and stated that
Majestic Twelve didn’t even exist. One of Friedman’s most famous quotes is
this: “The evidence is overwhelming that the Earth is being visited by intelligently
controlled vehicles from off the Earth.” He’s not alone. The man that drafted the original press release
about finding a “flying disc” was named Walter Haut. He wrote a book called “The Roswell Incident”
and in his later life he swore in an affidavit that he had seen an egg-shaped alien spacecraft,
but also that he had seen alien bodies: short dudes with large heads. He said there had been two crash sites, with
bodies only at one of them. He had always been reluctant to talk about
what he had seen, and it wasn’t until 2007 when he stunned people with his explanation. Some people believe this confession to be
of great importance, but others are sceptical. Why come out with this so late in the game? Well, some say it might have something to
do with the fact that his daughter runs the UFO museum in Roswell, and she might have
benefited from his candidness. His words are just that, words, and in spite
of fake videos showing us alien bodies, no bodies have ever been photographed or filmed. So, there are no photographs, but it also
turned out that many Roswell documents were destroyed by the government. In fact, in 2016, John Podesta had tried to
help Hillary Clinton open the case again and find all the original files by invoking the
Freedom of Information Act. “The files had disappeared, but it was clear
there’d been some investigation by the Air Force,” said Podesta. However, a story in The Guardian in 2011 noted
that the FBI routinely destroyed files because in the 40s and 50s there were just so many
UFO files that they were taking up too much space. One note that wasn’t destroyed was a memo
written by special agent Guy Hottel, the head of the FBI's Washington field office. He sent it to FBI boss J Edgar Hoover and
it stated that three flying saucers were found. He also wrote, “Each one was occupied by
three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall, dressed in metallic cloth of a
very fine texture.” So, did aliens come to Roswell? Do aliens even exist? Let us know your thoughts in the comments! Also, be sure to check out our other video
called Could Aliens 65 Million Light Years Away from Earth See Dinosaurs Alive? Thanks for watching, and, as always, don’t
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