UFO's and Government Coverups
Aliens have been a major question in conspiracy in today’s popular culture. In the 1940s-1950s ideas really sparked that we may not be the only ones in here in the galaxy. In 1947, a farmer named Mac Brazel discovered debris on his farm outside Roswell, New Mexico and a businessman named Kenneth Arnold in Washington claimed to see nine- high speed objects near Mount Rainer. In the first case of Mac Brazel, when first reported to the Air Forced they told that it was just a weather balloon that had crashed. However, this story didn’t stick and in the eyes of the public they believed that it could’ve been the remains of an Unidentified Flying Object (UFO).
As the years went on, the U.S Army stated that they knew more about the Brazel’s “Flying Saucer” than what was initially stated. After World War II a group of geophysicists and oceanographers had been working on a top secret atomic espionage project called Project Mogul. Project Mogul used sturdy high-altitude balloons to carry low-frequency sound sensors into the tropopause, a faraway part of the Earth’s atmosphere that acts as a sound channel, so they could eavesdrop on the Soviet Union.
According to officials the official story that came out was that the Mogul Project was actually the debris found in Brazel’s field outside Roswell. The reasoning behind it being unidentifiable is that the project was so classified that the Roswell Army Air Field didn’t even know it existed and didn’t even know the objects where that were found.
In the second case with Kenneth Arnold he claimed that what he saw moved like “Saucers on water.” This was also reported to the news, but they changed the story, saying the objects where saucer shaped. After news of is sightings got a hold of by the media, many cases similar were reported all across the Nation.
With all the number of sightings of UFOs that followed Arnolds allegations, government responded with an investigation called Operation Sign in which Air Force investigators deemed both Arnold and the prospector to be credible witnesses but concluded that what they had seen was a mirage, not actual flying ships.
However, in 1949 the Project Grudge, took over Project sign. They named this project, Project Blue Book. This was the longest running U.S. government program that took inquiries into UFOs. Project Blue Book was made up of reports of more than 12,000 UFO sightings. 90 percent were eventually classified as “identified,” meaning they were caused by a known astronomical, atmospheric phenomenon. The remaining number. 6 percent, were “unidentified,” and included cases in which there was insufficient information to assign the event a known cause.
Still to this day the major question in today’s popular culture is that many people believe that the government and the military are covering up the existence about alien life around both of these stories. Is there really more intelligent life than humans or is it just an idea that will forever linger in our world? The world may never know.
- Darion Allen
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