Roswell Conspiracy Theory

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Roswell conspiracy There hundreds of conspiracy’s and with that more made every day, there are ones that aren’t widely known and then there are. For example Roswell New Mexico, there is the conspiracy and how it was founded, the statements made by the people, and then the cover up made from the government. A conspiracy theory is defined as “a belief that some covert but influential organization is responsible for a circumstance or event”. Roswell’s conspiracy was that a UFO crashed in a ranchers sheep pasture, leaving behind lots of debris. In 1947 rancher Mac Brazel found something off in his sheep pasture, he described it as “a mess of metallic sticks held together with tape; chunks of plastic and foil reflectors; and scraps of a heavy, …show more content…

This has the government interested in what they claimed. A married couple by the names Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot claimed they had seen what looked like a flying disk. It was a Wednesday night, the couple was sitting on the porch they said about 10 pm, when they saw a glowing object zoom through the sky. “Wilmot said that it appeared to him to be about 1,500 feet high and going fast. He estimated between 400 and 500 miles per hour” (Roswell Daily Record page 1). Loretta Proctor claims she was the first to see the wreckage, she was Mac’s neighbor.” We cut on it with a knife and would hold a match on it, and it wouldn 't burn. We knew it wasn 't wood. It was smooth like plastic, it didn 't have a real sharp corners, kind of like a dowel stick. Kind of dark tan. It didn 't have any grain, just smooth. I hadn 't seen anything like it” (Loretta Proctor page 1). William Brazel Jr son of Mac Brazel gave a description of the wreckage and what happened. “One of the pieces looked like] something on the order of tinfoil, except that [it] wouldn 't tear.... You could wrinkle it and lay it back down and it immediately resumed its original shape... quite pliable, but you couldn 't crease or bend it like ordinary metal. Almost like a plastic, but definitely metallic. Dad once said that the Army had once told him it was not anything made by us” (William Brazel Jr page 2). He goes on to describe a threadlike material that looked like silk and was strong. But it wasn’t silk, and there were wooden particles. There is more to be said about it and more witnesses who give their knowledge on the subject, but the government