Posted on 08/07/2012 9:25:37 PM PDT by LucyT
Sixty-five years after a UFO allegedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, a retired Air Force official has spoken out to say that not only did the shocking incident really happen – but it happened twice. an unusual object fell from the sky and crashed to the ground in Roswell.
Military authorities issued a press release after the shocking incident, saying: ‘The many rumours regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence officer of the 509th Bomb Group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc.’
But, just 24 hours later, the military retracted their earlier statement and claimed the object they had first thought was a 'flying disc' was a weather balloon that had crashed on a nearby ranch.
The media and the public accepted the explanation without question. Since then, conspiracy theorists and officials such as French have called into question the military's line on the incident.
‘There were actually two crashes at Roswell, which most people don't know,’..."
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
random thoughts.
Jesse Marcel (son of the officer in the famous roswell photo who was oic on the scene) was a freeper, Jesseam. he posted on many topics and would often chime in on these threads. he made no claims of aliens or any of that. He did say it was material unlike anything he has ever seen since, and he explicitly said he had handled/seen the various gizmos proposed (including here) over the course of his life and they weren’t it. He had been particularly interested in a piece with some sort of ‘writing’ on it.
Quix passed away not too long ago. Somewhere someone linked to his obituary, which included some remarkable and impressive elements of his life I never saw mentioned.
https://www.farmingtonfuneral.com/obituaries/delbert-dobyns-1
did someone else take over his username/list?
there was a report, with obit link, some weeks back that he had passed away.
You are responding to a 10 year old post?
hmm i wondered why quix was mentioned so much. he lost that username years ago.
fun fact - searching with FR ‘search’ (yes i Know) for keyword UFO makes the post I responded on (this one) third on the list, despite being 10 years old.
https://freerepublic.com/tag/ufo/index?tab=articles
this was so even before I posted my first reply. I don’t understand at all.
obviously I didn’t catch it
apologies.
No apology is necessary. I was just curious why I got a response to a 10 year old post. I didn’t even think that was me at 1st until I realized how long ago I must have posted it.
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