In 1947 the United States Army issued a press release claiming they had a flying disk in their possession. Then the Army retracted the statement and said it was a weather balloon. And decades later still, they said it was part of Project Mogul, which is a weather balloon with some special attachments. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident#News_reports "The many rumors regarding the flying disc became a reality yesterday when the intelligence office of the 509th Bomb group of the Eighth Air Force, Roswell Army Air Field, was fortunate enough to gain possession of a disc through the cooperation of one of the local ranchers and the sheriff's office of Chaves County. The flying object landed on a ranch near Roswell sometime last week. Not having phone facilities, the rancher stored the disc until such time as he was able to contact the sheriff's office, who in turn notified Maj. Jesse A. Marcel of the 509th Bomb Group Intelligence Office. Action was immediately taken and the disc was picked up at the rancher's home. It was inspected at the Roswell Army Air Field and subsequently loaned by Major Marcel to higher headquarters." So my question is how can anyone with average intelligence, much less an Army intelligence officer and commanding officer, mistake a big deflated weather balloon for a flying disk. On the ground there is no way a deflated ballon is going to look like a disk. I can see how a balloon at altitude could look like a disk. But deflated on the ground, I think it would look like a deflated balloon.
Well, the problem is that it didn't simply "deflate". It also smashed into a million pieces. I think you're looking at a case of someone who didn't know about Project Mogul left without an explanation other than "It must have been a flying disc". Also worth noting is that Mac Brown didn't "store the disc", because according to every report ever, and Brown himself, the thing was in a million pieces, and he didn't even consider picking all of it up. So the article isn't even completely accurate.
Sounds like a cover up to me. Whatever it really was I don't think the military really wanted to share that information and they were forced to make up a reasonable story that would have appeased most civilians.
Well, I've brushed up on the subject in the past few days (haven't been into it in years), and I forgot to mention that most people "in the know" believe it was a military spy balloon that the US was testing for flight over Russia. When it crashed, the Military didn't want to admit to what it was, they just went with what the most popular myth was at the time--flying saucers. Of course, within a day, they realized that making the claim that they had a real-life alien spacecraft was about as dumb as it gets, and they changed the story. I mean, think about it. UFOs were a pretty hot pop-culture topic during the time, and it was probably the first benign cover-story the folks at the Air Force could think of. They probably said "Yeah, just say it's a saucer". But then someone higher up said "Are you retarded? People are going to want you to make good on that claim." So they changed it. Whatever the thing really was, it wasn't an alien spaceship.
