Settled in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert’s northwestern region lies a sleepy town turned military base with one of the most unique pop culture profiles of any community its size. Roswell, New Mexico is known the world over not because of the particular achievements of any of its 45,000 known residents, but rather a few speculated residents who may or may not have crash landed one night in 1947, only to be swept under the rug and denied by United States government’s controlling interests. Actually the closest population cluster to the reported crash site was Corona, New Mexico, though the Roswell Army Air Field handled the local investigation of the debris, thus forever linking the town of Roswell with the mysterious occurrence. The Roswell UFO Incident is a subject of distrust and rampant speculation by citizens towards the deceitful intentions and questionable transparency of the federal government. Though such a lack of faith may have been out of character in 1947, when the UFOs allegedly touched down, by the time books on the subject first appeared on shelves in 1980, Vietnam, Watergate, and a host of other issues had already disillusioned many Americans with regards to the top to bottom trustworthiness of government controlled entities.Officially, the US government purports the mysterious debris and any strange object that so-called witnesses may have seen was the result of an experimental high altitude surveillance balloon, property of a secret program dubbed “Mogul,” though skepticism remains high among those who are either keenly perceptive or have leafed through one too many science fiction novels. The military cover-up is rumored to have hidden not only the crashed alien craft from the curious eyes of the public, but also alien bodies, some of which may have even been alive at the time of their discovery. With major discrepancies between popularly held beliefs and flaws in the contentions of both witnesses and government officials, perhaps the only thing that remains certain is that very few people, if any, will ever know exactly what happened on that dark desert night in July of 1947.
Settled in the heart of the Chihuahuan Desert’s northwestern region lies a sleepy town turned military base with one of the most unique pop culture profiles of any community its size. Roswell, New Mexico is known the world over not because of the particular achievements of any of its 45,000 known residents, but rather a [...]
