In February 2020, an Air Force historian revealed a recently declassified report of a circa-1951 incident in which two Roswell personnel donned poorly fitting radioactive suits, complete with oxygen masks, while retrieving a weather balloon after an atomic test. On one occasion, they encountered a lone woman in the desert, who fainted when she saw them. The personnel could have appeared, to someone unaccustomed to then-modern gear, to be alien. [144] Cultural impact Tourism & commercialization The City of Roswell's welcome sign, featuring a flying saucer In 1997, on the 50th anniversary of Roswell, United States Army Colonel Philip J. Corso published his book The Day after Roswell. a b c "Harassed Rancher who Located 'Saucer' Sorry He Told About it". Roswell Daily Record. July 9, 1947. cited in McAndrew 1997, pp.8

On October 11, 1974, science-fiction author turned UFO conspiracy theorist Robert Spencer Carr was being interviewed by radio station WKRC in Cincinnati when he, on air, publicly claimed that alien bodies were being kept at "Hangar 18" at Wright-Patterson. [50] The claim garnered substantial press attention, and led to official denials. [51] The Air Force explained that there is no "Hangar 18" at the base and noted Carr's claims bore a close similarity to the 1966 science-fiction novel The Fortec Conspiracy. [52] In October 1980, Marcel's story was featured in the book The Roswell Incident by Charles Berlitz and William Moore. The authors had previously written popular books on fringe topics such as the Philadelphia Experiment and the Bermuda Triangle. [1] Certainly this book is not 100% accurate, but, who's to say the basis of the book and some of the major aspects do not contain parts that are very informative on the real picture of what happened. On September 20, 1989, an episode of Unsolved Mysteries had included second-hand stories of "Barney" Barnett seeing alien bodies captured by the Army and pilot "Pappy" Henderson transporting bodies from Roswell to Texas. The episode was watched by 28 million people. [102] Mortician Glenn Dennis called the show's hotline claiming to have knowledge of the events. [ citation needed] Gulyas, Aaron John (February 22, 2016). Conspiracy Theories: The Roots, Themes and Propagation of Paranoid Political and Cultural Narratives. McFarland. ISBN 9781476623498– via Google Books.

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In 1966, UFO conspiracy book Incident at Exeter featured a one-sentence mention of a crashed saucer tale about alien bodies in an Air Force morgue at Wright-Patterson Field. [46] [47] The passage served as the inspiration for the 1968 science-fiction novel The Fortec Conspiracy about a UFO cover up by the Air Force's Foreign Technology Division, the unit charged with studying and reverse-engineering other nations' technical advancements. [48] [49] "Hangar 18" and Robert Spencer Carr (1974) The Roswell incident, first brought to public attention in July 1947, remained relatively obscure for three decades until the emergence of UFO conspiracy theories rekindled interest in subsequent years. [34] These theories were fueled by hoaxes, legends, and stories of crashed spaceships and alien bodies in New Mexico. [35] Broad, William J. (June 24, 1997). "Air Force debunks Roswell UFO story". The Day, New London, CT. The New York Times News Service. Archived from the original on April 3, 2016. Japanese Balloon Bombs "Fu-Go" ". Atomic Heritage Foundation. Japan's latest weapon, the balloon bombs were intended to cause damage and spread panic in the continental United States.

The incident was forgotten until 1978, when retired lieutenant colonel Jesse Marcel was interviewed by ufologist Stanton Friedman. In that interview, Marcel revealed the "weather balloon" had been a cover story to divert public attention. Based on this, Marcel speculated that the debris might have been extraterrestrial in origin. [7] But nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman says they were just tossing the public a bone, asking: “Would anyone trust the CIA to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth?” Saler, Ziegler & Moore 1997, p.15: "With the passage of time the UFO community's bias against crashed saucer stories waned. Also, during the 1960s and 1970s various events colluded to produce within the larger society a dramatic erosion of the credibility of government officials, giving new life to the old claim by ufologists that government officials conspired to withhold evidence validating the extraterrestrial hypothesis." a b Grossman & French 2017, "Why have UFOs changed speed over the years?" (Kottmeyer, Martin), pp.172–173" Kopan, Tal (April 3, 2014). "Bill Clinton phones home on aliens". Politico. Archived from the original on April 19, 2021 . Retrieved April 19, 2021.

Carr, Timothy (July 1997). "Son of Originator of 'Alien Autopsy' Story Casts Doubt on Father's Credibility" (PDF). Skeptical Inquirer: 31. Mortician Glenn Dennis's claims of an alien autopsy was detailed in the book. [114] [ bettersourceneeded] Bissell is famous in history as the leader of the U-2 and the Corona spy satellite projects at CIA as well as the architect of the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion that had dominated the headlines for the past few weeks before Saler, Benson; Ziegler, Charles; Moore, Charles (1997). UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Smithsonian Institution Press. ISBN 978-1560987512. Lewis, James R. (1995). The Gods have landed: new religions from other worlds. SUNY Press. ISBN 978-0-7914-2329-5.

Roswell Theory Revived by Deathbed Confession". The Sunday Telegraph. July 1, 2007. Archived from the original on January 27, 2013 . Retrieved February 6, 2013. Siegler, Kirk; Baker, Liz (June 5, 2021). "The Truth Is (Still) Out There In 'UFO Capital' Roswell, New Mexico". NPR . Retrieved May 8, 2022. In 2005, Nicholas Redfern authored Body Snatchers in the Desert: The Horrible Truth at the Heart of the Roswell Story, [134] a book that suggests the Roswell crash may have been the result of a top secret high-altitude balloon test. According to Redfern's narrative, the test used deformed Japanese POWs acquired after a battle in 1945 on a small island in the Pacific. [135] Redfern suggests the test was part of a program resulting from an import of Japanese scientists after the war in similar vein to Operation Paperclip. The Japanese scientists are alleged to have brought POWs with them to continue experimenting radiation, cosmic ray & high altitude effects on people, including people with progeria. [136] Witness to Roswell (2007) I'm not an insider so I wouldn't know either way, but I have yet to hear or read anything that would completely discredit every part of the book for me (I don't have the same standards as others obviously).UK expert Pope says they took to seeding private corporations with the alien tech, without disclosing its nature — acting as a sort of strategic inspiration for some of America’s biggest companies. Korff, Kal (1997). The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-1573921275. Thomas, David E. (March 2001). "Retired Air Force Balloon Expert Expands on Origin of 'Majestic 12' UFO Hoax" (PDF). Skeptical Inquirer. Vol.25, no.2. p.5 . Retrieved June 17, 2023.

Also this is not the only area outside the USA. There is also Pine Gap in Australia where there have been rumors of secret experiments with electromagnetic propulsion taking place some five miles below the surface. In 1992, Stanton Friedman released Crash at Corona, co-authored with Don Berliner. [112] The book, later termed "version 4" of the Roswell story, introduced new "witnesses" and added to the narrative by doubling the number of flying saucers to two, and the number of aliens to eight – two of which were said to have survived and been taken into custody by the government. [112] [116] The Truth about the UFO Crash at Roswell (1994)Earthfiles’ investigative reporter Linda Moulton Howe says she is amazed by how many real documents from the 1940s have come out and shed light about what really happened at Roswell. Corso published The Day After Roswell in 1997, about his alleged involvement in the research of extraterrestrial technology recovered from the 1947 Roswell Incident. Grossman, Wendy M.; French, Christopher C. (2017). Why Statues Weep: The Best of the "Skeptic". Routledge. ISBN 978-1134962525. Archived from the original on April 28, 2021 . Retrieved April 28, 2021– via Google Books. Technology of the Gods author David Childress goes on to say: “The miltary was there, the FBI was there, and he was astonished to find that this was the crash of some sort of UFO and that the being was an extraterrestrial.”