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margin: 0 0 0.5em 0.5em; text-align:left; border: 1px solid #9696DD; width:175px;"> <tbody><tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; text-align:center; color:White; background-color:#9696DD"><b>The woo is out there</b><br /><a href="/wiki/Ufology" title="Ufology"><font size="4" color="White"><b>UFOlogy</b></font></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color:#C0C0EB;" align="center"><a href="/wiki/Category:Ufology" title="Category:Ufology"><img alt="Icon ufology.svg" src="/w/images/thumb/e/e2/Icon_ufology.svg/100px-Icon_ufology.svg.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="100" srcset="/w/images/thumb/e/e2/Icon_ufology.svg/150px-Icon_ufology.svg.png 1.5x, /w/images/thumb/e/e2/Icon_ufology.svg/200px-Icon_ufology.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="200" data-file-height="200" /></a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#9696DD; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Aliensdidit" class="mw-redirect" title="Aliensdidit"><font color="white">Aliens did it...</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#C0C0EB;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Boyd_Bushman" title="Boyd Bushman">Boyd Bushman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astrobiology" title="Astrobiology">Astrobiology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Loren_Coleman" title="Loren Coleman">Loren Coleman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Icke_(slovensky)" title="David Icke (slovensky)">David Icke (slovensky)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Knight_satellite" title="Black Knight satellite">Black Knight satellite</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hollow_Moon" title="Hollow Moon">Hollow Moon</a></li></ul> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; color:White; background-color:#9696DD; text-align:center;"><b><a href="/wiki/Ancient_aliens" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient aliens"><font color="white">...and ran away</font></a></b> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="font-size: 95%; background-color:#C0C0EB;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Church_of_Scientology" title="Church of Scientology">Church of Scientology</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tiwanaku" title="Tiwanaku">Tiwanaku</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Bara" title="Mike Bara">Mike Bara</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_C._Hanson" title="Aaron C. Hanson">Aaron C. Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stonehenge" title="Stonehenge">Stonehenge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ancient_astronauts" title="Ancient astronauts">Ancient astronauts</a></li></ul> <div class="vte plainlinks" style="font-size:smaller; text-align:center;"><a href="/wiki/Template:Ufology" title="Template:Ufology">v</a> - <a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Ufology" title="Template talk:Ufology">t</a> - <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://rationalwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Ufology&action=edit">e</a></div> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table style="margin: auto; border-collapse:collapse; border-style:none; background-color:transparent;" class="cquote"> <tbody><tr> <td><div style="padding:4px 50px;position:relative;"><span style="position:absolute;left:10px;top:-6px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">“</span><span style="position:absolute;right:10px;bottom:-20px;z-index:1;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;font-weight:bold;color:#B2B7F2;font-size:36px">”</span>I coined a term for this called the Roswellian Syndrome, and that is — we have a report; an exciting report of something extraterrestrial. Then we have it <a href="/wiki/Debunked" class="mw-redirect" title="Debunked">shot down</a>, if you will — and it goes away. But it never <i>really</i> goes away. People's <a href="/wiki/Cognitive_bias" class="mw-redirect" title="Cognitive bias">memories start playing tricks on them</a>, so they're all put into this burgeoning <a href="/wiki/Folklore" title="Folklore">folklore</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">hidden</a> <a href="/wiki/UFO" class="mw-redirect" title="UFO">saucer</a>.</div> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="padding:4px 10px 8px;font-size:smaller;line-height:1.6em;text-align:right;"><cite style="font-style:normal;position:relative;z-index:2">—<a href="/wiki/Joe_Nickell" title="Joe Nickell">Joe Nickell</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup></cite> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Roswell</b> is a town in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">U.S.</a> state of <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a>, known primarily as the birthplace of actress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demi_Moore" class="extiw" title="wp:Demi Moore" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Demi Moore">Demi Moore</span></a>,<sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> the boyhood home of astronaut <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Mitchell" class="extiw" title="wp:Edgar Mitchell" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Edgar Mitchell">Edgar Mitchell</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> and something involving <a href="/wiki/Unidentified_flying_object" title="Unidentified flying object">UFOs</a>. </p> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><span class="toctogglespan"><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></span></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#What_actually_happened"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">What actually happened</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#What_didn.27t_happen"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">What didn't happen</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3"><a href="#Stalin_and_Mengele"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Stalin and Mengele</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-4"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-5"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-6"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-7"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li> </ul> </div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="What_actually_happened">What actually happened</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: What actually happened">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p>Well, there's quite a story there, but far less exotic than the UFOlogists have always said. The truth is, something <i>did</i> crash at Roswell. Although the term "flying saucer" was used in the newspapers in the area at the time, it was retracted in favor of "weather balloon." Neither was exactly accurate, though the latter is far closer to the truth. </p><p>On 14 June 1947, Roswell rancher William "Mac" Brazel found a tangled clump of balsa wood, tinfoil, and some oddly decorated tape.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup> Some <a href="/wiki/United_States_Armed_Forces" title="United States Armed Forces">military</a> men from the nearby Army air field came by and picked it up, somehow mistaking it for a flying saucer. The <a href="/wiki/Pentagon" class="mw-redirect" title="Pentagon">Pentagon</a>, realizing that it was a radar reflector from a <a href="/wiki/Nuclear_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Nuclear weapons">nuclear weapons</a> test detection system they'd been working on called <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Mogul" class="extiw" title="wp:Project Mogul" rel="nofollow"><span style="color:#477979 !important;" title="Wikipedia: Project Mogul">Project Mogul,</span></a><sup><img alt="" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/12px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="12" srcset="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/18px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 1.5x, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Wikipedia%27s_W.svg/24px-Wikipedia%27s_W.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></sup> called it a weather balloon and stopped talking about it. The first wave of the UFO craze started about a week and a half later in <a href="/wiki/Washington_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington State">Washington State</a>. Roswell would remain forgotten until the late 1970s, when <a href="/wiki/True_Believer" class="mw-redirect" title="True Believer">true believers</a> started investigating the story, jumped to a lot of conclusions, and elevated it into a gigantic <a href="/wiki/Conspiracy_theory" title="Conspiracy theory">conspiracy theory</a>. </p><p>Roswell (the incident) has long since become a major moneymaker for Roswell (the town), and has become a byword for UFO believers (as a great <a href="/wiki/Coverup" title="Coverup">coverup</a>) and UFO <a href="/wiki/Skeptic" class="mw-redirect" title="Skeptic">skeptics</a> (as a symbol of tenacious credulity). </p> <h2><span id="What_didn't_happen"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="What_didn.27t_happen">What didn't happen</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: What didn't happen">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><a href="/wiki/Extraterrestrial" title="Extraterrestrial">Aliens</a> came to <a href="/wiki/Earth" title="Earth">Earth</a> from another galaxy but then crashed and died. </p><p>What? Are you telling us that an alien race engineered an inter-galactic drive, but didn't invent seat belts? </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Stalin_and_Mengele">Stalin and Mengele</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Stalin and Mengele">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <p><i>Area 51</i>, a 2011 book by one Annie Jacobsen claims that the Roswell incident was the result of a botched attempt at psychological warfare against the United States by the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union" title="Soviet Union">Soviet Union</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3">[3]</a></sup> According to her book, <a href="/wiki/Stalin" class="mw-redirect" title="Stalin">Stalin</a> tried to throw the US into a <a href="/wiki/Mass_hysteria" title="Mass hysteria">mass panic</a> similar to the panic caused by Orson Welles' <i>War of the Worlds</i> by sending a remotely-controlled experimental aircraft with a payload of <a href="/wiki/Lulz" class="mw-redirect" title="Lulz">children surgically modified to look like aliens</a> by no-one else but <a href="/wiki/Holocaust" title="Holocaust">Dr. Mengele</a> himself. In return Mengele was apparently promised a secret <a href="/wiki/Eugenics" title="Eugenics">eugenics</a> lab,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> which is particularly bizarre given the Soviet Union repressed most <a href="/wiki/Genetics" title="Genetics">genetics</a> research.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5">[5]</a></sup> According to her account, it didn't work out because the aircraft crashed, the US military retrieved the wreckage and covered it up. Yeah. </p><p>The story is based on a single, anonymous source and it is unclear if the source made this up to pull Jacobsen's leg or if she exaggerated or misinterpreted what she had been told.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[note 1]</a></sup> Some of the rest of the ex-Area 51 personnel interviewed by her for the book are really not amused by the "revelation."<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[6]</a></sup> It is very likely that the story is a publicity stunt to sell the book. Needless to say, the UFO believers are not convinced at all.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[7]</a></sup> </p> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="See_also">See also</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Area_51" title="Area 51">Area 51</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Majestic_12" title="Majestic 12">Majestic 12</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Denver" class="mw-redirect" title="John Denver">John Denver</a>, who was actually born in Roswell (and not <a href="/wiki/Colorado" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorado">Colorado</a> or <a href="/wiki/West_Virginia" class="mw-redirect" title="West Virginia">West Virginia</a>)</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="External_links">External links</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.straightdope.com/21342139/did-a-flying-saucer-crash-near-roswell-new-mexico-in-the-1940s-what-s-with-this-alien-autopsy-movieThe">Straight Dope tackles Roswell in 1996</a> (including a debate with a believer)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.skepdic.com/roswell.html">Roswell</a> entry in <a href="/wiki/The_Skeptic%27s_Dictionary" title="The Skeptic's Dictionary">The Skeptic's Dictionary</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.roswellfiles.com/">Roswell Files</a></li> <li>See the <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia" title="Wikipedia">Wikipedia</a> article on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident" class="extiw" title="wp:Roswell UFO incident" rel="nofollow">Roswell UFO incident</a>. (It has more references than this one.)</li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nmsr.org/roswell.htm">The Roswell Incident</a>, page by the New Mexicans for Science and Reason, a <a href="/wiki/New_Mexico" class="mw-redirect" title="New Mexico">New Mexico</a> skeptical group</li></ul> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Notes">Notes</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Notes">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="font-size:90%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-6">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">She has some history of, errrrr, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.snopes.com/politics/crime/skyterror.asp">over-dramatizing events.</a></span> </li> </ol></div></div> <h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Roswell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2> <div class="references-small" style="-moz-column-count:2; -webkit-column-count:2; column-count:2; font-size:80%;"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-1">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o92V9JEzbIU">The Real 'X-Files'?</a> Vice, YouTube, 4 December 2015.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-2">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090109043134/http://ufologie.net/rw/p/roswelldailyrecord9jul1947.htm">Harassed Rancher who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About it</a>. Roswell Daily Record, July 1947. Archived from the original at ufologie.net on 9 January 2009.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-3">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2011/05/17/136356848/area-51-uncensored-was-it-ufos-or-the-ussr">Area 51 'Uncensored': Was It UFOs Or The USSR?</a> Fresh Air, <a href="/wiki/NPR" class="mw-redirect" title="NPR">NPR</a>, 17 May 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-4">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text"> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/ufo/8512408/Roswell-was-Soviet-plot-to-create-US-panic.html">Roswell 'was Soviet plot to create US panic'</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Daily_Telegraph" class="mw-redirect" title="The Daily Telegraph">The Daily Telegraph</a></i> having a bad day</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><a href="#cite_ref-5">↑</a></span> <span class="reference-text">Hudson, P. S., and R. H. Richens. <i>The New Genetics in the Soviet Union</i>. 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