The Existence of Alien is a Reality
Going by the events witnessed in Roswell, New Mexico since July 7, 1947, the existence of aliens is, in fact, a reality. Numerous eyewitness accounts claim to have sighted a disc-shaped flying object crash into a nearby ranch followed by a loud bang (Eberhart 44).
Witness Reports and Initial Investigations
One of the principal witnesses was a man by the name W.W Brazel, the owner of the farm who spotted what he described as "strange" and reported the same to the Sherriff, Wilcox George. According to Brazel, he noticed bits of wood rubber, foil, paper and tape in the sheep grazing field. Brazel immediately called the Sherriff, who in turn informed the local airbase's local intelligence commander, Major Marcel Jesse to have a look at the debris. Marcel, immediately convinced that whatever Brazel had stumbled upon was remains of a saucer able to fly. Marcel informed his commander who later told Walter Haut, the press officer on duty of the development (Eberhart 44).
Conflicting Explanations and Witnesses
By the following morning, significant newspapers were ablaze with various headlines claiming sightings of flying saucers in Roswell region-instantly turning both the small sleepy town the UFO capital of the nation. However, there a big hitch to the story, as Time newspaper reported on the investigation 50 years later from the time of the incident. Time newspaper claimed that as the Daily Record ran the sensational story, it was determined to portray the debris came from a weather balloon that had run aground. As such, the paper printed a retraction statement a day after the incident, where Brazen claimed he was extremely overworked over nothing in particular.
All said, not everyone agreed with the official explanation. Time Magazine in 1997 explained how Enter Friedman Stanton, who was a former nuclear physicist at the time residing in New Brunswick, Canada quizzed Jesse Marcel in 1978 who had handled the wreckage. Marcel at the moment had long retired from the army and now lived at Baton Rouge. Marcel in his words, still believed the debris they retrieved from a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico was extraterrestrial. Besides, Friedman painstakingly reviewed past stories concerning the Roswell incident, seeking out and examining responses from many more witnesses (Eberhart 46). At last, Friedman arrived at a dramatic conclusion that there the whole event was marred with the cover-up of mammoth proportions. Friedman's research and findings became the foundations of many publications further demystifying the Roswell incident and other books. Thus, placing back Roswell town on the national map.
Public Awareness and Government Inquiry
Over the proceeding decades, publication of several Roswell books saw the ever-increasing public awareness on the supposed cover-up concerning the Roswell incident. As a result of the mounting pressure, the US Airforce was forced to conducts its inquiry, consequently making its findings public (Eberhart 44). According to the Airforce, the incident involved a secret balloon weather tracking program deployed around 1947, in which they identified it as the first wreckage at the farm. However, other witnesses, such as Walter Haut clung to the belief that the debris belonged to a flying saucer. Haut, who passed way in 2007 did not give up on alien landing idea and even went ahead to establish Roswell's UFO museum. A sneak peeks into the newspaper publications from July 9, 1947, immediately reveals what the Army was trying to achieve. For instance, on 1 July 1947 when a farmer Sharman Campbell encountered a strange object in his property in Circleville, Ohio. The object was immediately identified as a weather balloon by the local Sherriff, and by the following days, newspaper pictures depicted Jean Campbell with the kite-like object.
Conflicting Explanations and Airforce Findings
However, according to the Daily Record published on 9th of July, Brazel together with Marcel and a counter-intelligence agent, take the material home and try to construct a kite from it, but could not piece together the materials. There was no reason whatsoever for them to try to make a kite out of the pieces unless they wanted to construct a parallel explanation to that of Circleville weather balloon incident. Ironically, the nature of explanations evolved to a point where it was identified finally as a weather balloon with a Rawin targeting device attached to it- for estimating the balloon's altitude. Further, demonstrating that the balloon theory had not been fully developed by the time, Brazel shared his story with the media (Eberhart 47). The Balloon story begs the question whether Roswell officers could not identify the object like a balloon as the Circleville Sheriff did, and even went ahead to announce recovering a flying saucer. Marcel failed to recognize the object, so did Col. Blanchard William and his staff. Nobody at the Roswell town could positively identify the object like a balloon, as such it was flown to Fort Worth, where a low ranking officer, Irving Newton identified it as a weather balloon- though he did not mention the Rawin Device.
Exploring the Facts and Cover-Up
There is no explicitly any facts to dispute the July 8 article that announced the sighting of a flying disc. This explanation is the simplest and most straightforward account of the events at Roswell (Eberhart 48). The article recorded that a rancher found something, informed the Sherriff who in turn notified the authorities at the local army Airbase. The debris material was then loaded onto a plane and flown to the headquarters; indeed everything claimed in the article took place as recorded. Nearly all the people interviewed corroborated the claims in the first issue of the paper including those who were involved with the flight. However, the July 9 story appears to be complicated and not adding up. Nearly half of the story is filled with lies which have been exposed by recent first-hand witness accounts. Investigations reveal that Mac Brazel told his story to the media on July 9 under coercion, while in the company of army officers derived from the 509th Bomb Group. Further, inquiries revealed that he lied to the press with full knowledge of the officers.
The Truth Emerges
In my view, the first eyewitness account that claimed the sighting of a flying saucer seems to be the truthful and actual. This reason is that numerous inquiries have found out that Mac Brazel was asked by the Army to take an oath of silence following the matter. Sighting an ordinary balloon does not call for a promise of secrecy (Eberhart 60). Therefore, whatever Brazel found was more than just a regular weather balloon thus the need to take the oath of secrecy and ultimately give a cover-up story only a day after he had claimed he saw something strange and had not provided the whole story. Investigations have unearthed that the July 9 statement did not adequately cover the events before and after the crash.
Works Cited
Eberhart, George M. The Roswell Report: A Historical Perspective. J. Allen Centre for UFO Studies, 1991. www.cufos.org/books/The_Roswell_ReportR2.pdf. Accessed 16 May 2018.
