Roswell Declassified

John3 writes "Scotland may be the most popular UFO destination on the planet, but Roswell, New Mexico is the old favorite for government conspiracy buffs who believe the US government has been hiding proof of an alien spacecraft crash in 1947. Popular Mechanics has recently gained access to de-classified documents from the Roswell military base, and they contain no entries of unusual events or activity. I wonder if the release of these documents will deter the conspiracy theorists?"

Comments

Re:Theres many UFO conspiracy theories.

[operagost]

I don't think the German military was doing anything of the sort in 1946. That's because there wasn't one.

Re:It won't :)

[LastManOnEarth]

Ok, Let's make a few points here... (1)Aliens can definitely exist. BUT... That doesnt mean they have to fly in saucers ,look humanoid, have interest in us, even develop sentience or technology. A microbe that is extraterrestrial is an "alien".You cant prove the ground under your feet isnt alive just because it hasnt proved itself to you that it is. And considering the bizaare circumstances that created life on earth was astrnomically rare (no pun intended :P)only created one sentient lifeform here that we know of the chance of meeting intelligent life in this universe is near null. (2) Id like to point out the trends of UFO sightings in past happen to coincide with alpha technology of the respective periods (ie. cigar shaped = jet/ boomerang = flying wing/ saucer previously mentioned)And due to angles and atmospheric conditions, man made sattellites that can be seen with the human eye from the ground tend to look distorted and move in odd directions. Notice that most modern footage is taken at dusk or dawn? Thats from sattellites being so far up they still are reflecting the sun and our atmosphere either squashes and/or stretches or even reflects it multiple times. This phenomenon is well documented and can be easily verified. Im not saying that all phenomena can be explained away so easily, but until we have proof (alien artifact/body/public first contact)I'll remain anchored to what logic seems to point too. That we are indeed alone as far as intelligent life and people are still desperately trying to find something to believe in.

Pickery of nits.

[DoraLives]

There is a flag on a pole that you can see with a powerful telescope

Yes, we went to the moon.

No, you can't see ANY of the stuff we left there with ANY telescope. Too small. Too far away. Good thing we also left the laser reflectors, huh.

Carry on.

Re:Conspiracy theorists.

[Pinball Wizard]

There is plenty of archaeological evidence of a great flood taking place 3000-7000 years ago. Not only that, but the flood story is universal to nearly every culture. Where in the Bible does it say the Earth is flat or only 6,000 years old?(hint: it doesn't) Josephus and Tacitus both mentioned Jesus in their histories.

I can't comment about the Egyptians enslaving the Jews, but so far you've been wrong about everything else you wrote about, so it wouldn't surprise me to find that this is historical fact as well.

You are either supremely close-minded or only read biased history written by atheists. Either way, you're wrong.

You can read the "declassified" docs online

[Anonymous Coward]

At least, they claim to have posted a bunch of them. Not sure if these are the same ones PM used for their article, but I didn't find the article all that informative.

http://www.nsa.gov/docs/efoia/released/ufo.html

Anonymous Coward