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Aliens and Roswell
June 24th, 1997. The US Air Force holds a press conferences to squash rumors that the US Air Force has been secretly holding a crashed alien ship and survivors. Yes, we’re revisiting Roswell. Mind you, the Roswell incident occurred on July 8th, 1947- when a representative of the US Air Force, lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel stated in a press release, ‘the US Air Force has recovered a flying disk with alien bodies had crashed in New Mexico.’ Why did the Air Force decide to hold a press conference on June 24th 1997, a week shy of the 50th anniversary of Roswell? For fifty years, no one cared about what conspiracy theorists thought. What happened in 1997 that the US Air Force had to say, on the record, “This will be the final word on the Roswell Incident.”
The US Air Force for fifty years said there is no cover up. There was nothing here. It was just a weather balloon. So, how does reaffirming it was just a weather balloon on the 50th anniversary of the incident squash the belief in aliens? The updated weather balloon theory didn’t add any significant details that would explain why or how a highly decorated war officer, who participated in delivering the first nuclear weapons used in war, mistook a weather balloon for a crashed disk with alien bodies.
