Roswell Incident Essay, Research Paper

ROSWELL INCIDENT

This Essay is a descriptive reconstruction of one spectacular incident in

Roswell, New Mexico. Almost fifty years ago, an incident occurred in the

southwestern desert of the United States that could have significant

implications for all humankind. The incident was announced by the U.S. military,

and denied by the U.S. military; it has remained covered-up in the government

for the past fifty years. It is not a false claim, but rather a known event that

is thoroughly documented. It is the objective here to summarize the details of

the events and interviews of that event, affirm the right of all people

throughout the world to know the truth about what occurred, and propose a course

of action that will allow the truth to emerge.

The Roswell Incident, which enlightened our minds to the capacity of

excepting all, has remained one of the most controversial issues today. In

Roswell, New Mexico, 1947, a strange occurrence arises. An alien craft from

outer space crashed in an open field. The issue lay still for almost fifty

years, until the thought of a government cover-up arose. Society?s opinions

have changed over the years. Previous to the 1990?s, people have despised the

thought of sharing the universe with other intelligent life forms. Now people

are interested in this mysterious phenomenon. The government has always, in the

past, tried to keep any sign of aliens, whether it be pictures from space, to

crashes on earth, to a low or nonexistent level. Just recently has the

government been harassed to the point where they actually gave us clues to alien

existence. It has in some ways been believed that the government has worked in

partnership with popular movie directors, to produce alien movies to ease the

thought that we may not be alone. Such movies as ?The Arrival? and the

ever-popular ?Independence Day? are very good examples of well convincing

alien movies. If this is true, they did a good job, because statistics state

that 75% of people today believe that there are some kind of intelligent life

forms besides ourselves in the universe.

What really happened at Roswell

A local New Mexico rancher, MacBrazel, while riding out in the morning to

check his sheep after a long night of thunderstorms, discovered a considerable

amount of debris. It created a gouge several hundred feet long and was scattered

over a large area. Some of the debris had strange physical properties. He took

some debris to show his neighbors then his son. Soon after that he notified the

sheriff. The sheriff then contacted the authorities at Roswell Army Air Field

Base. The area was closed off and the debris was eventually flown by B-29 and

C-54 aircraft to Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio. The New York Daily News article

said in that time, ?…either conclusive proof extraterrestrial have indeed

visited earth, or one of the most elaborate hoaxes ever perpetuated on the

public…? Besides the wreckage that was found, there were three objects which

were highly debated about. Three bodies, two found dead, the other died in a

couple of weeks. Whether or not the bodies were actually found, is only

determined by the few witnesses who claim to have seen the bodies. A few of

these people turned out to be very highly respected military officers. Some

people say that the bodies were human which have been exposed to the radiation.

This radiation could have been caused, due to nuclear weapons that Roswell Army

Air Base had been testing, since they were at the time the only squadron, which

had authorization to nuclear weapons. This theory was discounted by most, saying

that this kind of deformation would have caused a human being to die before such

damage could occur.

The government has been blamed with covering up this whole event. They have

been claimed to have shipped off the wreckage to Dayton, Ohio, to avoid

publicity. Which is normal, to prevent a worldwide panic. The bodies however,

were not as lucky to have not become public, yet. The government has, and will

always say that the wreckage found was a secret spy balloon. The people who have

seen the wreckage, and believe that’s what it was, describe it as a bundle of

tinfoil, broken wood, beams, and rubber remnants of a balloon. Most discount

this because, why would the government be messing around with balloons, if they

were exploring the characteristics of jet fighters. Yes, the wreckage did seem

like tin foil, at first, until you

held the material, which if you bent, twisted, and did anything you dreamed

up of, would still return to its original shape. They have tried to burn and

shoot through it and had unsuccessfully destroyed it. It is thought that the

government has used this to their benefit, and discovered its properties to use

on future planes, but this has not been yet proven, since no planes known are

this indestructible.

Glenn Davis, a respected businessman in Roswell, was called by a friend, his

name was General Exon, and asked him how to seal and preserve bodies that have

been exposed to the alien materials. Davis did not know the answer to this

question, since he did not know much of the incident. Later that night he made a

trip to the base hospital, outside the back entrance he spotted two military

vans with the rear doors open, from which large pieces of wreckage protruded.

Once inside he encountered a young nurse whom which he knew, at the same

instance, he was noticed by military police, which escorted him from the

building. The next day he met up with the nurse at a coffee shop. She explained

that she had been called upon to help two doctors dissect to small bodies, which

she thought to be alien. She drew a diagram on a napkin showing an outline of

their features. That meeting was to be their last because she was transferred to

England a few days later. Today the nurse would be sixty-nine years old.

Investigators are trying to locate her. Five nurses are pictured in the 1947

Roswell Air Field yearbook. The files of all five are strangely missing from

military records.

The Dissection

A couple years ago a report on Fox Television Network Broadcasted a show

called ?Alien Autopsy.? This show was mainly about what happened to the

bodies, which were recovered from the Roswell crash site. Bodies were showed

being dissected on videotape. The whole process of the dissection is like this:

One of the two people first examined the body. He then with a surgical knife,

cut open the neck down to the belly, and took out the organs. As for the head,

he found that the eyes of this body were covered with two black membranes, which

were easily removed with tweezers. Lastly, he cut open the scull and took out

the

brain. The other person seemed to be responsible for recording the whole

process. People at first, thought this whole movie was a joke until they opened

the bodies up.

Steven Speilberg even said, ?There is no way that these bodies could be

fake, due to the high complexity of the inner organs, not only would it have

been impossible then, it also practically impossible to replicate them now, and

if it were possible it would cost us millions of dollars to replicate, or even

try to replicate some of them.? Kodak film company has done their own testing

on the actual film on which the footage had been filmed. They had verified that

the film was made in the 1940?s. In the film, when it zoomed up on the bodies,

blurred. This was thought to purposely done to hide detail, but in fact cameras

in the 1940?s had no focus on objects that were to close to it. There were

even people who are claimed to be eyewitnesses of the crash of the UFO in

Roswell, and strongly believed that the body appeared in this film, was one of

the three found in this incident. Even though there are several information

which points to the program being real and there are several information, which

point to its falsehood. The government wanted to keep this at a very low-key.

They still insisted that the crash in Roswell was still a military balloon.

However, a congressman wanted the government to open all the document related

to the Roswell Incident, the reply was that all of documents were destroyed!

What did the government want to cover? If they wanted to cover the fact that

aliens came to earth, why did they let the show air to the public? Of course, if

the film is false, it doesn’t matter. There also some differences in the body in

the broadcast, and the descriptions from the witnesses. The most obvious is of

which the fingers in the movie have six fingers and toes, while the witnesses

from Roswell said they had only four. It is said that the UFO had exploded in

the air, if those were the case, then the bodies would have been severely

burned. In ?Alien Autopsy,? the only injury on the body, was the cut on the

right leg. The dissection room in which it was taken was much too simple. The

people in the movie are wearing normal dissection clothes, if it were a true

alien, then why not try to prevent themselves from catching some out of this

world disease. Lastly, people say that the bodies are too similar to human

bodies, and that the bodies just might be abnormal humans. Like many people do,

we think aliens may look similar to us. By chance there may be aliens that

resemble us, or we

may resemble them. For obvious reasons, it is necessary that the military

services and the intelligence agencies impose a certain amount of secrecy. As we

all know we will never know the true story of which happened in Roswell, New

Mexico in 1947, but it is up to us to decide for ourselves. For reader?s

convenience a picture of this event appears in this essay as Appendix I.