UFO's have been around for about a
century now, there have been thousands of sightings. One of the first UFO sightings was in 1896 in
Sacramento, California, within a period of two years there were
thousands of reports of people seeing the thing, described by some
witnesses as a dark cigar shaped craft. Even though there have been
thousands of reports of UFO's there are only a few that makes even skeptics scratch their heads. The Kenneth Arnold sighting was what started the modern UFO
era. In May, 1947 Kevin Arnold a pilot and businessman spotted a
number of shapes flying over Mount Rainier, he described the movement of
the objects as “skipping like saucers across a pond” which gave
birth to the term “flying saucers”.
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| Kenneth Arnold |
Two months later in Roswell a
farmer named Mac Brazel found a debris field strewn with some strange
materials unlike anything he had seen before, he showed parts of the
debris to his family and friends who were equally astonished as
Brazel was.. Jesse Marcel Sr. an intelligence officer at Roswell Army
Air Force base at that time, he was ordered to investigate the crash
site, he was accompanied by
CIC officer Sheridan Cavitt. Marcell related the events
of the search through the debris in his own words: "When we
arrived at the crash site, it was amazing to see the vast amount of
area it covered."
"...it scattered over an area of about three quarters of a mile long, I would say, and fairly wide, several hundred feet wide. "It was definitely not a weather or tracking device, nor was it any sort of plane or missile."
"I don't know what it was, but it certainly wasn't anything built by us and it most certainly wasn't any weather balloon."
"...small beams about three eighths or a half inch square with some sort of hieroglyphics on them that nobody could decipher. These looked something like balsa wood, and were about the same weight, except that they were not wood at all. They were very hard, although flexible, and would not burn at all. There was a great deal of an unusual parchment-like substance which was brown in color and extremely strong, and great number of small pieces of a metal like tinfoil, except that it wasn't tinfoil. I was interested in electronics and kept looking for something that resembled instruments or electronic equipment, but I didn't find anything.
"...Cavitt, I think, found a black, metallic-looking box several inches square. As there was no apparent way to open this, and since it didn't appear to be an instrument package of any sort, we threw it in with the rest of the stuff." "It had little numbers with symbols that we had to call hieroglyphics because I could not understand them. They were pink and purple. They looked like they were painted on. I even took my cigarette lighter and tried to burn the material we found that resembled parchment and balsa, but it would not burn , wouldn't even smoke," "...the pieces of metal that we brought back were so thin, just like the tinfoil in a pack of cigarettes," "...you could not tear or cut it either. We even tried making a dent in it with a sixteen-pound sledgehammer, and there was still no dent in it." Having rode to the site in two vehicles, Marcel sent Cavitt back to the base with his Jeep full of the material, and Marcel took his Buick, and stopped by his house to show his wife and son his amazing find. When Marcel returned to base he was instructed to load the debris on a B-29 and fly them to Carswell AAFB in Ft. Worth, Texas, there Brigadier General Roger Ramey took full charge of the case. Under orders Marcel stated that the debris found was of a weather balloon, pictures were taken of Marcel holding a different new material. When he was interviewed in 1978 Marcel stated that the materials he found were definitely NOT from a weather balloon.
There was another event before Kenneth Arnold's and Roswell crash,
“The Battle of Los Angeles”. In the early morning hours of February 25th 1942 and air raid siren awoke all the residents, the army's 37th Coast Artillery Brigade with their massive spotlights lit up the clear black skies, what they saw was a giant UFO hovering over the skies of LA. The 37th's anti-aircraft guns immediately opened fire on the massive object, the object took many direct hits but appeared undamaged, the 30 minute barrage sent spent and fragmented artillery shells over homes and citizens, killing six individuals.
Testimony
from and Air Raid Warden:
"It
was huge! It was just enormous! And it was practically right over my
house. I had never seen anything like it in my life!" she said.
"It
was just hovering there in the sky and hardly moving at all."
"It
was a lovely pale orange and about the most beautiful thing you've
ever seen. I could see it perfectly because it was very close. It was
big!"
"They
sent fighter planes up and I watched them in groups approach it and
then turn away. There were shooting at it but it didn't seem to
matter."
"It
was like the Fourth of July, but much louder. They were firing like
crazy but they couldn't touch it."
"I'll
never forget what a magnificent sight it was. Just marvelous. And
what a gorgeous color!"
“What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?”
Sir Winston Churchill - July 1952
Dime Danov
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