Whether you’re into sci-fi or not, there’s no doubt that you’ve contemplated the existence of intelligent life beyond our planet. This one story provided inspiration for hundreds of books, movies, tv shows, action figures, and maybe even some erotic fantasies. In 1974, there were reports of a UFO crash landing in the town of Roswell, New Mexico. I can’t tell you how many “documentaries” I’ve seen on the sci-fi channel about this story. Some people said weather balloon, others said alien spacecraft, but I think we can all agree on one thing…Will Smith was awesome in Independence Day.
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“At the VLA (that centre of government radio telescopy) they will tell you that around the time of the crash, the US government was sending up special high-altitude weather balloons made of a then-classified material.
They were looking for atmospheric evidence that the Russians were testing their own nuclear bomb.
On the night of the Roswell incident, one of those balloons went missing.
Until, perhaps, it was found by the boys of the 509th.
And all that stuff about alien bodies being recovered and autopsies being performed? Well I leave you to speculate about that for yourselves.”
I know the quote is a little long, but I don’t want you to waste 5 minutes of your day reading the entire article, only to be disappointedby the ending. So there you have it–no UFO, no aliens, no more worrying about anal probes. Sorry fan-boys, looks like you’ll have to give up your search for extraterrestrial life and get real jobs now.
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