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FBI Releases Document Confirming Roswell UFO

Posted by samzenpus on from the I-want-to-believe dept.

schwit1 writes "An investigator for the Air Force stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico. They were described as circular in shape with raised centers approximately 50 feet in diameter. Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape, but only 3 feet tall dressed in metallic clothing of very fine texture."

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  1. Last words... by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 4, Funny

    Last noises heard from dying aliens: "Ack, ack, ack..."

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    1. Re:Last words... by thomasdz · · Score: 4, Funny

      Last noises heard from dying aliens: "Ack, ack, ack..."

      So the aliens either were trying to speak TCP/IP or they were related to Bloom County's "Bill the cat"?
      (or was somebody playing cowboy yodeling music somewhere near the crash site?)

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    2. Re:Last words... by Ekhymosis · · Score: 4, Funny

      Last noises heard from dying aliens: "Ack, ack, ack..."

      No no, the last words heard were: "Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnn!!!!"

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  2. Questions. by webmistressrachel · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This raises more questions than answers. For a start, this really is on vault.fbi.gov servers, so either it's real or a VERY risky hoax.

    However, assuming it's real for now, WHY HAS THIS NOT LEAD TO A FLURRY OF OTHER EVIDENCE FROM ELSEWHERE?

    Clearly the mask is off now? The government know about saucers, otherwise there wouldn't be such a casual write-off at the end of the doc.

    So were they short Russians? Germans who found it in a barn after WWII and got it working? COME ON FBI, do your jobs and give us a proper INVESTIGATION!

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    1. Re:Questions. by ZosX · · Score: 5, Informative

      http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread685706/pg1

      Did some more research.... apparently this was declassified in the 70s and published in several books from that time. I don't know how much I would read into it.

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    2. Re:Questions. by wonkavader · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Webmistressrachel, what this document says is that an FBI agent interviewed someone who heard a rumor.

      They did that a lot. They should be many, many documents just like this one, all mutually contradictory. It's to be expected.

    3. Re:Questions. by dkegel · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Also, fwiw, it was posted on an fbi site in 2004 as well: http://waybackmachine.org/20041115000000*/http://foia.fbi.gov/hottel_guy/hottel_guy_part01.pdf

    4. Re:Questions. by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Informative

      If there's one time to ever RTFA, it's when it's a government document supposedly admitting UFOs of the flying-saucer variety exist and were found near Roswell.

      Turns out this isn't that. It's the FBI noting that some dude claimed that two 50-foot saucers landed near Roswell because the nearby radar station disrupted their control mechanisms, and then doing nothing.

      "Disrupted by the radar you say? Ah of course. And where are these saucers? Oh they've mysteriously vanished since you saw them the night of the full moon. Got it. Thank you, citizen. We'll definitely look into that -- might be the Russians you know."

      Only other thing to say is -- good job, submitter. Made me look.

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    5. Re:Questions. by CharlyFoxtrot · · Score: 4, Insightful

      When I was young I thought there might be something to stories like these, then I grew up and realized that many people are doped up, drunk, compulsive liars or completely bat-shit insane. And some are all of those, all the time.

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    6. Re:Questions. by DamonHD · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's no way to speak of our elected representatives.

      Rgds

      Damon

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  3. Riiiiiight by DurendalMac · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The document almost makes it sound like hearsay. It says an investigator stated that, but then goes on to say that it was provided by an informant. Doesn't sound terribly sound, and it says that no further investigation was done, which probably means that the FBI had a good laugh about it and then filed it away.

    1. Re:Riiiiiight by ThunderBird89 · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Agreed, this is only a filing of the report, no follow-up. It's customary in every law enforcement organisation to file every report, no matter how stupid. Hell, I've heard about the police filing a report by a guy claiming every evening, after the news ran, the newscasters came out of his TV set, and beat him. No investigation was done, naturally, but the report had to be filed, as the SOP went.

      Just another sensationalist samzenpus headline, it would seem...

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    2. Re:Riiiiiight by dsheeks · · Score: 4, Funny

      Oh come on, you obviously don't understand anything about proper conspiracy theory analysis. Obviously no further investigation was done because it was covered up. That fact alone (no further investigation) absolutely proves without a shadow of a doubt that the report was true and that aliens were found, taken to be autopsied, and that the autopsy findings were ultimately linked directly to the Kennedy assassination. Boy oh boy oh boy oh boy... what's become of the Slashdot commenters these days...

  4. Hearsay by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    The document is a report outlining another individual's report. It's neither admission nor documentation of the incident by the FBI, just a record that someone has made a statement about the incident. It's worthless.

  5. April fools? by betterunixthanunix · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wow, I have been spending way too much time coding. I completely lost track of the date!

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  6. obligatory by austinpoet · · Score: 5, Funny

    does the document detail whether the base did, after all, belong to them?

  7. Read the article carefully by lscotte · · Score: 5, Informative

    Read the article carefully - it neither denies nor confirms anything. This is a report documenting what an informant said, and does not suggest any first hand knowledge about anything...

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  8. Al lwe need to know by BlindRobin · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is just how did Obama manage this from Kenya BEFORE hes was born, I bet Glen knows...

  9. Re:Great news! by zill · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to Mr. _______ informant

    They debriefed their informant and recorded down what he said. It doesn't necessarily mean FBI actually believe the information provided. Under the FOIA you can't just destroy the document because the source wore a tin-foil hat.

  10. Re:Great news! by plover · · Score: 4, Funny

    We have confirmation the FBI is not a serious organization...

    "No, ma'am. We at the FBI do not have a sense of humor we're aware of."

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  11. Dwarf test pilots by mkraft · · Score: 4, Informative

    The document says "so-called flying saucers" with 3 foot tall human shaped bodies wearing test pilot guard, No where does it say "aliens" in the document. They were obviously dwarf test pilots.

    1. Re:Dwarf test pilots by Peet42 · · Score: 5, Interesting

      Actually, you're not so far off one of the more interesting "oddball" theories.

      Lets assume that something happened. There was a communication blackout, the local undertaker was asked to provide three child-sized coffins and thereafter the Army Air Force claim that nothing happened.

      The "oddball" theory is that a scaled-down test plane, manned by children crashed in the desert. Can you imagine the US Government ever admitting to that?

  12. Suspicious timing by Livius · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The problem with the Roswell folklore has always been that the story completely went away until the point in time when, coincidentally, the actual witnesses had died of old age.

  13. Re:my personal theory by sjames · · Score: 4, Funny

    How do you know that's not what they want you to believe?

  14. Re:Last Modified Date by sjames · · Score: 4, Funny

    All right now, aliens in Roswell is one thing, but you actually expect me to believe a government agency has a sense of humor?