What Do You Suppose Happened At Roswell In 1947?

[ER]

Theories, theories everywhere, what's yours?

[indianasmith]

Completely overblown episode with an experimental weather balloon.

[ER]

Ah, but what if  that's what the aliens want you to think?

[RCMerchant]

Not something we will ever know. The bulls**t stories changed so much over the years. I seriously doubt it was a flying saucer, though.

[ER]

Likely you guys are exactly right, but to quote the motto of The Lowe Files, "It's more fun to believe." 

[Alex]

They found a flying saucer and three alien bodies leading to the formation of a number of secret government organisations, some designed to keep the existence of extraterrestrial life a secret, others to exploit and use their technology. Covid is an example of their attempts to meld alien DNA to terrestrial lifeforms.

Why the hell not? I make that 80% more interesting than the truth.

[sprite75]

This.

[bob]

aliens

[Leah]

Experimental aircraft crashed imo. This is the very beginning of the jet age and people at the time were more accustomed to see propeller planes than jet planes. Hell the first commercial jet airliner was made in the 50's iirc.

[claws]

This happen

[Rev. Powell]

Per wikipedia:

In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.[1] Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon.[2] Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.

In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident)

Sounds credible to me, I see no need to dig deeper.

[LilCerberus]

something embarrassing...

[RCMerchant]

Per wikipedia:

In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.[1] Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon.[2] Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.

In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident)

Sounds credible to me, I see no need to dig deeper.

What I would like to know is- why was it first reported by the Air Force as a 'flying saucer'?

[Rev. Powell]

Per wikipedia:

In mid-1947, a United States Army Air Forces balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico.[1] Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon.[2] Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, which then engaged in a cover-up.

In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist. Roswell has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim". (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_UFO_incident)

Sounds credible to me, I see no need to dig deeper.

What I would like to know is- why was it first reported by the Air Force as a 'flying saucer'?

Nobody ever cites the clarification/retraction the paper ran a few days later: ARMY DEBUNKS ROSWELL FLYING DISK AS WORLD SIMMERS WITH EXCITEMENT https://priory-of-sion.com/biblios/links/roswell2.html

More on the story here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/in-1947-high-altitude-balloon-crash-landed-roswell-aliens-never-left-180963917/

To speculate on an answer to your question, I'd guess the officer sent to investigate the wreckage of the weather balloon wasn't in on Project Mogul and didn't know what the wreckage was. He then made an unwise and premature quote. The Air Force clarified matters the next day. Case closed.

[RCMerchant]

^ Makes sense!