Was The Roswell Incident Involved With Extraterrestrials And Flying Saucers

Savannah Lee Mr.Ross Advanced English 8 16 April 2021 Was The Roswell Incident Involved With Extraterrestrials and Flying Saucers? On June 14, 1947, a rancher by the name of W.W. “Mac” Brazel found wreckage on his large property just 75-80 miles north of Roswell, New Mexico. Due to the amount of sightings and claims of “flying discs” and “flying saucers” that had made an appearance globally, Brazels first thought was that it was the scraps of a flying saucer. Brazel then collected the scraps, and took some of the material to the Roswell Sheriff, who in seeking answers went to a commanding officer of the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF). The public and Brazel believed that those scraps were the scraps of a flying saucer of some sort. While many

(Britannica)” For the first 7 years after the accident, the government hid the fact that the scraps Brazel found were a part of Project Mogul instead from a weather balloon, although for good reason. That reasoning being such as not wanting the Soviets to know of the work the US was doing to detect the Soviets nuclear bomb tests. This in which caused a lot of confusion throughout the process of this incident.Consequently this led to an elongated concern process of the people due to the government hiding Project Mogul by claiming the scraps as scraps of a weather balloon. After learning all of this, the newfound question is why did the government at first say it was a “flying saucer”? Adam Janos, an experienced writer with a demonstrated history of working in the entertainment and news industry, states in his article called “What Really Happened at Roswell” that “Because Project Mogul was a covert operation, the new report claimed, a false explanation of the crash was necessary to prevent giving away details of their spy

Nonetheless, the government could not tell the public the truth behind the Roswell incident because it could risk a secret operation and the project the government was working on. Though many people believed the Roswell incident was extraterrestrial involved due to the amount of sightings claimed in the year, the actual piece of scraps found being part of a project by the government, and the government covering up a private project causing later confusion within the public all can show that the Roswell incident was not extraterrestrial involved ever. The amount of sightings that had been claimed that year counted up to about 300. With that amount of claimed sightings globally, the world began to believe in such things as extraterrestrials and flying saucers. Along with that, the government at first stated things that would support the public's conspiracy about the flying saucers, then throughout time the government switched its stories a few more