EXACTLY 69 years ago today, the world’s most infamous UFO mystery began after an “object” crashed near a desert ranch on the outskirts of Roswell, New Mexico. Although countless alien investigators flocked to search for “evidence” of the alleged UFO crash including aliens, both alive and dead inside the wreckage, the puzzle has never been answered.

The story goes that on July 7, 1947, rancher W W Brazel told Sheriff George Wilcox that he had found “something strange” on his sheep ranch outside Roswell. Mr. Brazel happened to find some rubber, foil and other debris on the ground and alerted the Sheriff, who alerted the nearby Army base airport. Major Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer, is sent to investigate. Mr. Marcel was apparently convinced that the rancher had found the world’s first evidence of aliens and that what they were seeing was the remains of a flying saucer. He, in turn, reported this up the chain, causing duty press officer Walter Haut, at the now infamous Nevada Area 51 base, to send this information in a press release.

But what followed was a big U-turn and still no sign of actual aliens.

Perhaps in 1947 people thought that a flying saucer traveling in space would be made from foil, rubber, tape, paper and wood, as Mr. Brazel discovered. But on the day of the report, the RAAF retracted its initial statement and said what was found were parts of a downed weather balloon. The newspaper published a follow-up article in which Mr. Brazel spoke of his confusion at “not being able to do anything.” But now the snowball has begun and it is accelerating. No one was interested in the next story, and the original was spread first across the country, then globally, even without the Internet, and in Roswell, USA, the UFO capital of the world was born.

It was also the birth of the conspiracy theorist, according to which the unthinkable is more likely to happen than the rational. Immediately, it was reported that the military had found a plane, but they did not want the news to get out and the story of the weather balloon was quickly made up as a cover. But it seems like it took a few years for the “find an alien inside” element of the story to kick in. America’s Time magazine conducted a published investigation into the Roswell Incident – as it was known – on the 50th anniversary in July 1997. The magazine reported that Stanton Friedman, a former nuclear physics turned to UFO research, it was announced in 1978 that the now retired Mr. Marcel had ” handled UFO debris”. Mr. Friedman is said to have met Mr. Marcel, who still believes that the debris is a flying saucer…

This prompted him to investigate the 31-year-old case, looking for other witnesses at the time.

His book – The Roswell Incident, co-written by Charles Berlitz and published in 1980 – saw the mystery revisited many times.

There were further articles and books, and pranksters in 1995 released a black-and-white video showing military doctors performing a makeshift autopsy on an alien corpse, amid claims that it is a genuine leaked recording from the 1947 incident.

This was later proven to be a hoax, although many UFO and conspiracy theorists still refuse to accept it. Allegations of a cover-up became so widespread that the Air Force eventually launched its own investigation, and it eventually released previously secret information about a top-secret balloon tracking project taken at the same time in 1947. said explaining the remains found. It remains one of the world’s largest conspiracy theories and UFO cases. One thing seems clear – even if “the truth is out there” those who believe in the Roswell UFO crash will not go away and the theories will continue to emerge.

“It is not widely known, but there are actually two crash sites. Did the government admit to the first site, only saying that it was a high-tech weather balloon test that crashed, intended to divert attention from the second and more important UFO crash.” location?

“Why, if nothing happened, is the crash site and Area 51 still sealed off after decades? Don’t believe what you’re told. Do your research and decide for yourself what really happened out that night in Roswell.”