Could a weather balloon really explain the 1947 Roswell event?
On July 2, 1947, an intriguing event took place northwest of Roswell during a fierce thunderstorm. Rancher WW Mack Brazel was surveying his property after the storm when he stumbled upon something unusual. He discovered a vast debris field filled with strange metal fragments that he had never encountered before. At the center of what looked like an impact crater, Brazel found the remnants of a sizable metallic object, and according to some reports, the biological remains of two humanoid-like beings.
Curious and a bit concerned, Brazel contacted the local sheriff's department in Roswell. After they inspected the site, they called in military personnel from the nearby Roswell Army Airfield. The military gathered up all the debris—and reportedly the two unusual bodies—and brought it back to base for examination by a team led by Major Jesse Marcel, the base intelligence officer.
Just a few days later, on July 8, 1947, the Army Air Corps, under the direction of Colonel William Blanchard, issued a press release written by Lieutenant Walter Haut. The release excitedly announced that they had recovered a crashed UFO from a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. If you’re familiar with the saga, you know that the very next day, higher-ups from Fort Worth arrived, leading to a new press release that claimed the wreckage was actually from a weather balloon. After this, the story seemed to fade into the background until Stanton Friedman, a leading UFO researcher, uncovered it in the early 1980s and began searching for information and witnesses. His investigation brought him back to Roswell, where he sought out Lt. Walter Haut, the very public information officer involved back in 1947. Haut, who still lived in Roswell, recalled the press release and the orders from his commanding officer. Once this information became public, the story known as The Roswell Incident—and the alleged military cover-up—generated tremendous intrigue, raising more questions than answers. Numerous books have been written, and various documentaries have been produced. Witnesses have come forward, while skeptics have offered their counterarguments, keeping the debate alive. Reflecting on this fascinating story, I remembered a conversation from 2012 with my friend Armand Vaquer. He shared something about his great-uncle, who was in charge of the U.S. Army hospitals in the Southwest during that time: “I've always found this subject captivating. My interest grew tremendously after my late mother revealed something to me about ten years ago. My great-uncle, who oversaw Army hospitals in the Southwest in the late 1940s, including several in New Mexico, was there during the incident. He told my mother (he passed away in the early 1990s) that the original narrative of a UFO crashing near Roswell was indeed true and that alien bodies were recovered. The weather balloon explanation was merely a cover story. He was not the type to spread falsehoods; if he said a UFO crashed and bodies were recovered, you could trust his word.”
Questions abound—could it have been a flying saucer, or perhaps just a weather balloon? What really happened that night?
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