Despite claims from the US Army Air Force they had ‘solved’ the globally famous Roswell incident a group of former NASA experts have said this is untrue.
Last month, Dr Sean Kirkpatrick, the Pentagon’s departing UFO chief, said his office’s own conclusion was that the Air Force’s report in 1994 was correct. Roswell’s ‘flying saucer’ crash was debris from a top secret ‘Project Mogul’ spy balloon. However, independent experts, including former NASA scientists, say that official documents, created by the very scientists who ran Project Mogul themselves, flatly contradict the government’s claims.
The Roswell incident of 1947 caught the imaginations of people around the world when the Air Force said it had recovered debris from a ‘flying disc’. But less than 24 hours later, military officials backtracked, saying the debris had come from a crashed weather balloon. The balloon project ran from 1947 until early 1949 and was an effort to develop long-range tracking of sound waves from Soviet nuclear weapons tests. But the scientists struggled to develop a system of high-altitude balloons and sensors that could remain level within the right ‘sound channel’ about 50,000 feet above sea level, with poor weather and aviation safety issues hampering them.
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