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

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

      Rgds

      Damon

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  2. 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.

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

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

  4. 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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  5. 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...

  6. 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?