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Harding, Thomas (May 13, 2011). "Roswell 'was Soviet plot to create US panic '". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on May 20, 2011 . Retrieved February 6, 2013. Partridge places UFO religion within the context of theosophical esotericism, noting that the term 'UFO religion' gained prominence after the 1947 Roswell incident. [160] He draws parallels between UFO spirituality and New Age thought, highlighting shared beliefs, including a belief in a Spiritual Hierarchy. [160] Many believe World War II was the trigger with the rapid advances in military technology including atomic weapons coinciding with the surge in UFO activity. Klass, Philip (1998). "The Klass Files" (PDF). The Skeptics UFO Newsletter. Vol.49. The Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Archived from the original on December 24, 2013 . Retrieved April 7, 2015. Army Will Explain Crash of Plane Carrying Saucer". The Neosho Daily News. Neosho, Missouri. August 5, 1947. p.4 . Retrieved November 29, 2022.
The incident was forgotten until 1978, when retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel was interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman. In that interview, Marcel revealed the "weather balloon" had been a cover story to divert public attention. Based on this, Marcel speculated that the debris might have been extraterrestrial in origin. [7] In the book, Corso claims the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), or "Star Wars", was meant to achieve the destructive capacity of electronic guidance systems in incoming enemy warheads, as well as the disabling of enemy spacecraft, including those of extraterrestrial origin. Furthermore, Partridge observes that, post-1947, many of these groups maintained the belief that extraterrestrial beings served as 'heralds of a new era.' [160] Examples of this include:
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Disch, Thomas M. (July 5, 2000). The Dreams Our Stuff is Made Of: How Science Fiction Conquered the World. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780684859781. Claims that alien bodies were being hidden by the military were also popularized by longtime UFO researcher Leonard H. Stringfield. Stringfield claimed analysis of bodies and UFO crash debris was being conducted at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, however no connection to Roswell was specified. [58] [35] In July 1978, Stringfield spoke about alleged crash retrievals at the international MUFON symposium held in Dayton, Ohio. [59] Also in attendance were Donald Keyhoe, J. Allen Hynek, and Ted Bloecher [60] Stringfield wrote a seven part series of his 'research' titled Status Report I-VI as a follow-up to this talk. [61] Jesse Marcel re-ignites interest in Roswell (1978) In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Roswell, United States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso published his book The Day after Roswell. Greer, John Michael (2009). The UFO Phenomenon: Fact, Fantasy and Disinformation (1sted.). Woodbury, MN: Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN 978-0738713199.
This field is tough because a lot of the real stuff IMO is shrouded in crap, so you can either rule out anything that has parts that aren't credible (99.99999% of everything) or you can use your own discretion and try and read between the lines and form your opinion on whats likely going on. I would argue that to a much lesser extent, this is something we all do every day when listening to politicians as well. When it was released, the book contained a foreword written by longtime U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, for whom Corso had once served as an aide. Thurmond wrote, "He has many interesting stories to share with individuals interested in military history, espionage and the workings of our Government." The foreword did not mention anything about UFOs, since Thurmond had assumed the book was a straightforward memoir. When he learned about the book's contents, Thurmond stated, "I know of no such 'cover-up,' and do not believe one existed." [1] In 1966, UFO conspiracy book Incident at Exeter featured a one-sentence mention of a crashed saucer tale about alien bodies in an Air Force morgue at Wright-Patterson Field. [46] [47] The passage served as the inspiration for the 1968 science-fiction novel The Fortec Conspiracy about a UFO cover up by the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division, the unit charged with studying and reverse-engineering other nations' technical advancements. [48] [49] "Hangar 18" and Robert Spencer Carr (1974) Goldberg, Robert Alan (2001). "Chapter 6: The Roswell Incident". Enemies Within: The Culture of Conspiracy in Modern America. Yale University Press. pp.189–231. ISBN 978-0300132946. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016 . Retrieved March 16, 2016. Donovan, Barna William (2011), Conspiracy Films: A Tour of Dark Places in the American Conscious, McFarland, pp.104–, ISBN 978-0786486151According to Corso, the reverse engineering of these artifacts indirectly led to the development of accelerated particle beam devices, fiber optics, lasers, integrated circuit chips and Kevlar material. In 1992, Stanton Friedman released Crash at Corona, co-authored with Don Berliner. [112] The book, later termed "version 4" of the Roswell story, introduced new "witnesses" and added to the narrative by doubling the number of flying saucers to two, and the number of aliens to eight – two of which were said to have survived and been taken into custody by the government. [112] [116] The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994) The grandson also says a photo of his grandfather that appeared in the press does not feature the same material, it obviously being part of a weather balloon. The bombshell before Roswell Problem is that Frank G. Wisner (not "Wiesner") had been hospitalized and replaced as top CIA covert operator nearly three years earlier in August 1958, first by an acting covert operations director Richard M. Helms and then by Wisner's permanent replacement, Richard M. Bissell, on January 1, 1959. Thus Bissell was the actual CIA Chief of the Clandestine Service (or Deputy Director for Plans) serving in 1961 at the time alleged in Corso's tale. When Tsoukalos asks him what happened to all the debris, the mayor says it was all taken to another base and is no doubt well preserved.
And it was public knowledge that the new CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., was not yet open for business in May 1961 when Corso's imagined confrontation with the top CIA spook supposedly took place there. The new building did not receive its first CIA employees until September 1961. However, all that funding and UFO activity needed a cover story and many say the Cold War was the biggest ruse of all. Associated Press, Flying Disc Found; In Army Possession, The Bakersfield Californian (Bakersfield, California), July 8, 1947, p.1Saler, Benson; Ziegler, Charles; Moore, Charles (1997). UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560987512. On July 9, 1947, the US Army identified the debris as an ordinary weather balloon. [5] [6] As described in the July 9, 1947, edition of the Roswell Daily Record: Klass, Philip J. (1990). "New Evidence of MJ-12 Hoax" (PDF). Skeptical Inquirer. Vol.14. pp.135–140. Max Headroom Creator Made Roswell Alien". The Sunday Times. April 16, 2006. Archived from the original on May 22, 2008 . Retrieved February 6, 2013. Observers have also spotted mysterious runways in the remote regions of China, some a mile long and half mile wide…a testing ground for some sort of alien ship? The Next Generation
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