The Roswell Incident: Fact or Fiction?

             The Roswell Incident: Fact or Fiction?
             Many people are firm believers in the crash that supposedly brought extraterrestrial life to the New Mexico desert outside of Roswell in June 1947. Why do these people believe? Is there really anything to believe in? How did the whole fiasco even begin? Something did crash in that desert, but it was of this world and active imaginations of those desperate to believe made it more.
             The whole debate began when Colonel William Blanchard, Commander of the 509th Bomb Group, used some unfortunate wording in a press release. He said that the wreckage of a crashed disk had been recovered. Just hours later General Roger Ramsey, Commander of the Eighth Air Force at Fort Worth Army Air Field in Fort Worth, Texas, released a second press release. He claimed that the officers of the 509th bomb group incorrectly identified a weather balloon and its radar reflector as a crashed disk.
             Glenn Dennis was a mortician in the Ballard Funeral Homes. He claims that he received numerous phone calls form the mortuary officer at the air field before anyone else had learned of the wreckage. They were asking for small hermetically sealed caskets and for his recommendation as to how to deal with bodies that had been exposed to the elements for several days. Dennis visited
             the base out of curiosity and was forcibly removed form the building. He then met with a nurse from the hospital who claimed to have helped with the autopsies. She gave him drawings of what she saw and said that there were "...several small non-human bodies...". After their meeting the nurse was abruptly transferred to England.
             Many skeptics have turned their attention to this incident. They have come up with numerous plausible reasons as to why there is no way anything that crashed is out of this world. One of their claims is that the supposed alien corpses are far too human looking. Numerous critics have stated that
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