http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21994224-2,00.htmlquote:1/7/07 Roswell aliens theory revived by deathbed confession
EXACTLY 60 years ago, a light aircraft was flying over the Cascade Mountains in Washington State, at a height of around 3000m.
Suddenly, a brilliant flash of light illuminated the aircraft.
Visibility was good and as pilot Kenneth Arnold scanned the sky to find the source of the light, he saw a group of nine shiny metallic objects flying information.
He estimated their speed as being around 2600km/h - nearly three times faster than the top speed of any jet aircraft at the time.
Soon, similar reports began to come in from all over America.
This wasn't just the world's first UFO sighting, this was the birth of a phenomenon, one that still exercises an extraordinary fascination.
Military authorities issued a press release, which began: "The many rumours regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc."
The headlines screamed: "Flying Disc captured by Air Force".
Yet, just 24 hours later, the military changed their story and claimed the object they'd first thought was a "flying disc" was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch.
The key witness was Major Jesse Marcel, the intelligence officer who had gone to the ranch to recover the wreckage.
He described the metal as being wafer thin but incredibly tough.
It was as light as balsa wood, but couldn't be cut or burned.
These and similar accounts of the incident have largely been dismissed by all except the most dedicated believers.
Astonishing new twist
But last week came an astonishing new twist to the Roswell mystery.
Lieutenant Walter Haut was the public relations officer at the base in 1947 and was the man who issued the original and subsequent press releases after the crash on the orders of the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard.
Haut died last year but left a sworn affidavit to be opened only after his death.
Last week, the text was released and asserts that the weather balloon claim was a cover story and that the real object had been recovered by the military and stored in a hangar.
He described seeing not just the craft, but alien bodies.
He wasn't the first Roswell witness to talk about alien bodies.
Local undertaker Glenn Dennis had long claimed that he was contacted by authorities at Roswell shortly after the crash and asked to provide a number of child-sized coffins.
When he arrived at the base, he was apparently told by a nurse (who later disappeared) that a UFO had crashed and that small humanoid extraterrestrials had been recovered.
But Haut is the only one of the original participants to claim to have seen alien bodies.
UFO pieces handed around
Haut's affidavit talks about a high-level meeting he attended with base commander Col William Blanchard and the Commander of the Eighth Army Air Force, General Roger Ramey.
Haut states that at this meeting, pieces of wreckage were handed around for participants to touch, with nobody able to identify the material.
He says the press release was issued because locals were already aware of the crash site, but in fact there had been a second crash site, where more debris from the craft had fallen.
The plan was that an announcement acknowledging the first site, which had been discovered by a farmer, would divert attention from the second and more important location.
The clean-up operation
Haut also spoke about a clean-up operation, where for months afterwards military personnel scoured both crash sites searching for all remaining pieces of debris, removing them and erasing all signs that anything unusual had occurred.
This ties in with claims made by locals that debris collected as souvenirs was seized by the military.
Haut then tells how Colonel Blanchard took him to "Building 84" - one of the hangars at Roswell - and showed him the craft itself.
He describes a metallic egg-shaped object around 3.6m-4.5m in length and around 1.8m wide.
He said he saw no windows, wings, tail, landing gear or any other feature.
Haug 'saw the alien bodies'
He saw two bodies on the floor, partially covered by a tarpaulin.
They are described in his statement as about 1.2m tall, with disproportionately large heads.
Towards the end of the affidavit, Haut concludes: "I am convinced that what I personally observed was some kind of craft and its crew from outer space".
What's particularly interesting about Walter Haut is that in the many interviews he gave before his death, he played down his role and made no such claims.
Had he been seeking publicity, he would surely have spoken about the craft and the bodies.
Did he fear ridicule, or was the affidavit a sort of deathbed confession from someone who had been part of a cover-up, but who had stayed loyal to the end?
The US government came under huge pressure on Roswell in the '90s.
In July 1994, in response to an inquiry from the General Accounting Office, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force published a report, The Roswell Report: Fact Versus Fiction In The New Mexico Desert.
Weather balloon 'cover story'
The report concluded that the Roswell incident had been attributable to something called Project Mogul, a top secret project using high-altitude balloons to carry sensor equipment into the upper atmosphere, listening forevidence of Soviet nuclear tests.
The statements concerning a crashed weather balloon had been a cover story, they admitted, but not to hide the truth about extraterrestrials.
A second US Air Force report concluded claims bodies were recovered were generated by people having seen crash test dummies that were dropped from the balloons.
Sceptics, of course, will dismiss the testimony left by Haut.
After all, fascinating though it is, it's just a story. There's no proof.
But if nothing else, this latest revelation shows that, 60 years on, this mystery endures.
Gisteren nog even gekeken, blijkt tot rust te zijn gekomen al zijn de meeste nog wel overtuigd van het bizarre in de thread ( zoveel reacties, de hele rush erna, het rare laatste bericht etc. alleen is de rust dus wel wedergekeerd. Ik hou mijn oogjes iig open.quote:Op zondag 1 juli 2007 20:25 schreef BaajGuardian het volgende:
Jogy/iemand anders nog die dit volgt? het word steeds vreemder, ik kan weer wat lezen omdat ik even ergens anders op een pc zit, ik snap nogsteeds niet waarom ik er zelf niet op kan.
Dat eerste is prima natuurlijk, maar nu je het weet.. waarom nog die angst?quote:Op maandag 2 juli 2007 14:18 schreef 1-of-6Billion het volgende:
Puik topic.![]()
Ik kom hier eind augustus bulderend van het lachen of in mijn broek schijtend van angst op terug.![]()
Wie weet heeftie toch gelijkquote:Op woensdag 4 juli 2007 15:50 schreef Boswachtertje het volgende:
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Dat eerste is prima natuurlijk, maar nu je het weet.. waarom nog die angst?![]()
Maar dan is er toch juist geen reden om angst te hebben? Je weet immers dat het opgezet spel isquote:
Kon geen pics of fimpjes erover vinden.quote:Op zaterdag 21 juli 2007 18:39 schreef jogy het volgende:
Voorpagina-nieuws!! Over 100 see UFO's over Stratford
Bedankt, ik denk dat er toch wat interessante tijden komende zijn. for good or for worse maar uiteindelijk boeit dat niet.quote:Op vrijdag 16 november 2007 20:57 schreef Oo-blackgirl-oO het volgende:
en waarom begint de Amerikaanse media eigenlijk steeds meer te praten over UFO's?
and another CNN report
Volgens genoeg onofficiele bronnen zijn ze er al duizenden jarenquote:Op vrijdag 16 november 2007 22:18 schreef WillemThe5th het volgende:
Volgens een NASA astronaut zijn ze hier al : http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread315558/pg1
Nu op CNN, live conferentie over UFO's ook gerelateerd aan dit verhaal.quote:Op vrijdag 16 november 2007 22:23 schreef WillemThe5th het volgende:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZW2of08hBos LARRY KING over UFO's
Precies!quote:Op vrijdag 16 november 2007 22:22 schreef jogy het volgende:
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Volgens genoeg onofficiele bronnen zijn ze er al duizenden jaren. Maar het valt wel op die subtiele shift in berichtgeving.
Tja, en de VS overheid is wel op haar woord te geloven natuurlijk.quote:Op donderdag 24 januari 2008 15:04 schreef nmrz het volgende:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/US/01/23/airforce.ufo/index.html
UFOs? Nope. They were fighter jets, Air Force says
Ontkennen dat er UFO's zijn is natuurlijk wel in tegenstelling met het bang maken waar in de OP over gerept wordt.quote:Op donderdag 24 januari 2008 15:40 schreef jogy het volgende:
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Tja, en de VS overheid is wel op haar woord te geloven natuurlijk.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7472421.stmquote:A SMALL Territory community is still reeling with shock after four UFOs descended on their Outback homes.
Families spent hours in fear as what appeared to be three spaceships hovered in the distance with another just metres above their houses.
The drama at Marlinja, population 112 and 730km south of Darwin, began at 8pm on Sunday.
Resident Janie Dixon said it started as an "ordinary'' night.
"The kids were on the basketball courts, shooting a few hoops, and I was indoors talking to my two nieces when we heard a strange, loud noise,'' she said.
"We ran outside but at first we couldn't see anything -- it was really dark and we could hear the sound.
"The sound was horrible. It sounded like something was going past.
"We thought it was a jet. I saw what I thought at first was the evening star, the first star you usually see at night.
"But then we saw three red lights in the distance, and the sound kept getting louder.
"The ground felt like it was shaking, so we ran inside and shut the doors.
"My nephew and niece were looking out through curtains. The thing came closer, circled around the basketball courts and then came so close above our house.
"The kids at the basketball courts ran -- two girls stood there looking towards the sky.
"They tried to see what it was but all they could see was this bright red light in the pitch black.''
Ms Dixon said the UFO hovered above the homes for what seemed like a couple of hours.
She said at one stage the phone rang, but went dead when she tried to answer it.
"Then the light in the house became so bright, it was like we were sitting in a football stadium,'' she said.
"We heard the noise again and it came back, but disappeared again.''
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=587271&rss=yesquote:A Liverpool man claims to have seen several UFOs hovering in the sky around the city and filmed them on his phone.
Vince Pybis said he saw a light above the bushes in Sefton Park and got his phone to film it, by which time six more had appeared.
Callers into BBC Radio Merseyside's also said they saw the lights in the Knotty Ash and Prescot areas.
Merseyside Police said they were not worried and no-one called the control room about the sightings.
But Mr Pybis said: "I'm a sceptic, I didn't believe in UFOs. But until you've actually seen one - well I saw seven - then I thought, they are out there."
Last month declassified government files revealed a letter sent to a secret agent from a man in Wirral claiming he had been in physical and psychic contact with an extra terrestrial called Algar.
He wrote: "I have had a relationship with Algar since 1958 and it continued until 1981 when he was killed by another race of beings."
Sceptics suggest aircraft or unusual weather phenomenon could be behind the sightings .
Dusssss.....quote:Alarmed UK citizens convinced they saw an armada of UFOs in the sky have flooded radio stations with their calls of distress.
Hundreds of people witnessed strange orange orbs hover over Liverpool, north England, on Monday, British tabloid The Sun reports.
The sightings prompted widespread speculation about the possiblity of an alien invasion.
Former policeman Steve Rafferty, 50, and his daughter Emma, convinced they were having a close encounter, filmed the unexplained phenomena on a mobile phone.
Another witness suggested the "alien craft" appeared to be scouting for a place to land, the newspaper reported.
The sightings came as three soldiers reported seeing UFOs spinning over an army base in Shropshire, in the west of the country.
The 13 flying objects were captured on film and are now reportedly being investigated by army officials.
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