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within a tent on the site. Several high ranking military officials were at the site. The bodies were eventually placed in dry ice and transported to the Roswell base, then to Fort Worth (Schmidt). The material from the crash site was described by many observers. Three general materials that were reported. There were small beams that looked like tan or light brown plastic. They were very light-weight, like balsa wood, but without grain. They reportedly couldn’t be cut or burned. On some of the balsa wood-like material were markings similar to hieroglyphics. One of the materials looked like tinfoil except it wouldn’t tear. It could be wrinkled but retained its original shape. It was reportable as thin as the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes. It was so thin that it weighed

nothing. There was also another tinfoil-like material that was stiff and couldn’t be dented with a 16 pound sledge hammer. However, it also was very light weight. There was a thread-like material that looked like silk but was not made up of strands but more like a wire, all in one piece. It was strong like deep-sea fishing line (Schmidt). The government had officially reported that the wreck was that of a weather balloon (Wyly). If that were the case, there wouldn’t have been any need for secrecy. According to testimony, military officials admonished subordinates and civilians not to talk about what they saw. That includes the Roswell police and fire departments, local ranchers, a group of archeologists, and two campers (Rayl 10). If what crashed were a weather balloon,

surely Major Marcel would have recognized it as such before the AAF released the first report of a saucer. The wreckage described by many was nothing similar to a weather balloon and too spread out over a large area. Most of the witnesses who handled the material would have recognized that it was not that of a weather balloon. Furthermore, there is no reason the government would transport a wrecked weather balloon from New Mexico to Fort Worth, Texas (Schmidt). There was speculation that the wreckage could have been that of a secret rocket or airplane. Possibly a German V-2 missile gone astray from U.S. Air Force testing. However, in 1947 the only military testings in New Mexico were rocket testing in White Sands 75 miles away. These rockets were fitted with self-destructing

mechanisms for any errant paths (Thompson 233). If any of these were the case, the military wouldn’t have had to wait, several days, until a rancher reported the debris, before recovering it. If it were a secret, the government would have said “This is secret, and no more questions will be answered, period.” Furthermore, any military secret in 1947 would no longer be a secret today (Schmidt). Impelled by his New Mexico citizens and his own curiosity, Representative Steven Schiff began his own research of the mystery four years ago (Rayl 11). He forced the Air Force to drop the cover story it had maintained since 1947. Two years ago the Air Force revealed that the crash in Roswell had been that of “Operation Mogul,” an experimental high-altitude balloon designed to

monitor the first tests of Soviet Atomic bombs. That still leaves many unanswered questions. Schiff and many others have tried to get several branches of the government to reveal further information about the Roswell incident (Stacy 40). But, until the government does so there may be no clear answer. The U.S. government claims either the information doesn’t exist, was destroyed in 1947, or would be a threat to national security. However, the truth can only be contained for so long (Sagan and Thorton 115). Rayl, A.J.S. “Time Out: A Call For Accountability By the U.S. Government” Omni Oct. 1994: 10-11. Sagan, Carl, Thornton Page. UFO’s – A Scientific Debate. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1972. Schmidt, Christopher. Roswell Testimony. Boston: Northeastern University, 1994. Online.

Internet UFO Group – Government. Internet. 10 Nov. 1996. Stacy, Dennis. “Cosmic Conspiracy: Six Decades of Government UFO Cover-Ups.” Omni April 1994: 35+. Thompson, Richard L. Alien Identities: Ancient Insights into Modern UFO Phenomena. Alachua: Govardhan Hill, 1995. Wyly. Flying Disc, Information Concerning Ed. George M. Eberhart, 1991. Online. Internet UFO Group – Government. Internet. 10 Nov. 1996.