#roswell incident

[tamara-kama]

This inflatable UFO is HUGE! It's floor to ceiling in the Kama Arcade! 🛸👽🎃😅💜👍🏻

Look, blahaj is being abducted!! 🦈🛸👽💜

One more picture of the SHARK ABDUCTION!! 💜👽🛸🦈🎃👍🏻

Now Chucky's being Abducted by aliens!! 👽🛸🎃💜👍🏻

only thing is they showed a funny cow being abducted in the promotional pics and they don't include them.. so I used blahaj.. haha

Wayfair at least admits they don't include it but they charge 2x what I paid

I FOUND THE COW... and it's under $20.. I don't currently have $20 to spare to get it though.... but in my wishlist it goes....

This promo pic is great! haha

[archivist-crow]

On this day:

ROSWELL INCIDENT

On July 2, 1947, the most debated UFO fell from the skies over Roswell, New Mexico. Late at night, Dan Wilmot and his wife watched "two inverted saucers faced mouth to mouth" flying above their house for almost a minute. The luminous craft, tracked by military radar, "flashed through the atmosphere as a thunderstorm ripped through the night. The next morning, Mac Brazel, a ranch foreman, rode out on horseback to inspect his fences for damage. He found a half-mile-wide path of unidentifiable debris. The material was a dark, pliable, metal foil unlike anything he had ever seen. Scrunching it up made no impact. It would spring back to shape. Lightweight and durable, the scraps, some with mysterious markings, could not be burned or further broken.

Brazel showed samples of the wreckage to several neighbors and eventually called County Sheriff George Wilcox, who in turn notified the Roswell Army airfield. Within the week, radio stations were carrying the story of a crashed flying saucer, and newspaper headlines carried photos of army personnel posing with the silvery debris. The story was soon "corrected" by the military, which said that the UFO was a crashed weather balloon. Following the switch came civilian reports of more substantial fragments and four small, gray-skinned alien corpses. A local mortician received a request for child-size coffins.

Over the decades prominent UFO investigators have collected testimonials from local civilians and been stonewalled by others who were sworn to secrecy. Claims of heavy-handed threats and military involvement added fuel to the controversial topic. Brazel changed his story to the official version and left town. Sheriff Wilcox clammed up. Frustrated by lack of information, researchers continued to hunt for records for the next half century, only to be foiled by having the documents they were seeking unexplainably destroyed.

Text from: Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible, and the Ignored by Juanita Rose Violins, published by Weiser Books, 2009

[blogparanormalexpresso2stuff]

MUFON Podcast - Debbie Ziegelmeyer

MUFON in 2000 and became a Field Investigator shorty after. She is currently a MUFON Star Team Investigator, Missouri State Director, on the MUFON Business Board of Directors, a MUFON MARRS team member, co-founder of the MUFON Dive Team, and the MUFON Functional Director of Underwater Research and Recovery. She has over 1200 completed UFO investigations, with over 875 of them being MUFON sighting reports.

Debbie has been a Roswell 1947 crash investigator for over 25 years and is a member of Ted Phillips’s T.P.R.C. Team. In 2017 she was awarded both the “Roswell Incident Excellence Award” by the Roswell Daily Record, and MUFON “Field Investigator of the Year”. Debbie’s book “The Alien Colonization of Earth’s Waterways” which was released in September 2021, is A Reference Guide to UFO-USO Water Related Activity. Debbie is also a PADI Scuba Instructor and owner of Missouri Scuba Diving, LLC. She has made multiple Podcast, Conference and TV appearances, and is the author of two books; “The Alien Colonization of Earth’s Waterways”, and “The 50th Anniversary of the SE Missouri Ozarks UFO Flap” co-authored with Margie Kay.

Debbie will be one of our featured speakers at the MUFON symposium this July in Dallas, and we are fortunate to have her as our guest tonight on the Official MUFON Podcast. Debbie Ziegemeyer, welcome to the program.

mufonsymposium.com

https://mufonsymposium.com/debbie-zie...

[fromthedust]

José María Pérez Nuñez (Argentina, working in Buenos Aires)

https://www.instagram.com/josemariapereznunez/?hl=en

[dontcallittimetravel]

On This Day: american radio broadcasts the first reports of a ufo crash in roswell. The crash part is true but the rest of it . . .

[jade-island-lives]

So, I’ve had a day.

[random-jot]

Roswell innit

[tamara-kama]

UFO McDonald's

Roswell, NM

I've been here during the annual Roswell UFO Festival just before the pandemic by the way!

It seems like it's been updated since then inside and is even better now!

[fanciedfacts]

Area 51 Is Government top secret location - But Why?

[rodspurethoughts]

"Exploring the Fascinating World of Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs)"

"Uncover the mystery of UFO sightings and the search for extraterrestrial life. Join us in exploring the fascinating world of unidentified flying objects! #UFOs #extraterrestrial #mystery"

Despite the skepticism that surrounds the topic, UFO sightings continue to occur around the world, with many individuals claiming to have witnessed something unexplainable in the skies. While some sightings can be attributed to natural phenomena or human technology, there are still a significant number of reports that remain unexplained. One of the most famous cases of UFO sightings is the…

[moorooster]

Some of the government officials who were a part of the mj-12 team sent to lead the research of the roswell incident went on to build the foundations of the internet, with machines and ideas like memex and xanadu. It's very possible that this internet was inspired by alien technology.

[dontcallittimetravel]

In honor of Mother’s Day, this week’s story is about misbehaving teenagers (with also a special nod to Adrian Tchaikovsky)

[rumorscity]

The Truth Behind the Rumors: Are Aliens Really Among Us? Top 5 Conspiracy Theories Debunked

For generations, the possibility of life beyond Earth has intrigued and sparked discussion among people worldwide. Speculation about extraterrestrial beings coexisting with humans has fueled countless conspiracy theories over the years. In this piece, we’ll delve into five of the most prominent alien conspiracy theories and demystify the misconceptions associated with them. Alien…

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

This is one of those thoughts / debates with imaginary people that lives rent-free in my head.

Every so often, it comes out from the back room, leans on the kitchen counter, and eats peanut butter with a spoon straight from the jar.

This whole last week has been one of those times.

(And at the time I wrote this, almost seven years ago, I went on a full day's journey down two rabbit holes concurrently: one following the exoplanets we've discovered, and astrophysics, and the other a timeline of human civilizations. And I want all that work to be recognized by more people)

The Fermi Paradox: If there are so many stars and planets in the universe, why haven’t we seen evidence of advanced alien civilizations?

But what if we have, and just not realized it?

As a hypothetical, consider: Roswell, New Mexico.

(edited 17 October, 2023, and again on 26 March, 2024)

Okay, okay. I know it’s cliché.

But hear me out. Besides, I’m offering this as a “What if–” a story prompt, if you will – not a revelation of some nefarious conspiracy, nor a claim that I’ve figured out the Truth that They don’t want anyone to know.

If there is a  single “Big Truth” out there, a) I don’t think anyone can know for sure what it is, and b) if we ever do find out, I don’t think it would be anything terrible or scary, after all (maybe a little sad).

If what crashed in the desert in New Mexico really was an alien spacecraft, and not a weather balloon (and assuming a technologically advanced society would be thoughtful enough to send an unmanned probe, first) that still leaves the big question:

Why haven’t they come back?

But, as all our most serious-minded scientists (even the ones who are imagining life outside our solar system, and puzzling through ways to test for it) will tell you:  Real-world interstellar travel takes a very, very, long time.

So: here’s what I’m imagining might have happened:

Around the time that pre-dynastic Egyptians were domesticating the donkey, astronomers living on the planet that we are now calling “Kepler-425b” turned their telescopes to the sky, wondering if there were intelligent life on other planets like theirs.

Around the time that Alexander the Great was trying to establish an empire, their technology has advanced enough to  send forth a ship in our star’s direction, carrying an unmanned probe, which has been programed with instructions to home in on any signs of proof of life – especially intelligent life.

The ship is capable of traveling at incredible speeds – almost half the Speed of Light – but even so, those idealistic astronomers know they won’t live to receive any answers that that little probe may discover. It’s all for their future generations, if they are still around, to reap.

That little probe finally makes it to its destination 3,000 (Earth) years after it set out: a little, rocky planet third out from its star – a medium-sized star just like the one it set out from.  And as it gets closer, the signs of life are unmistakable. And closer still: the signature of enriched Uranium, and Plutonium! Exactly what it was sent to find.  It comes in closer, maneuvering with the planet’s gravitational pull, preparing to send its message back home.

Except it crashes. It never gets to send that message. It gets dismantled; its parts get hidden away, and only those Earthlings that are thought to be delusional by others of their species believe it ever existed at all.

But the descendants of the civilization that sent it forth have no idea of its fate. They won’t even start looking for its message to arrive for another 1,400 years.

But (I hear you say)! Isn’t there another star with seven Earth-like planets, that’s much, much closer?

Yes, there is: a star we call “Trappist-1.” But it’s a dwarf star. The planets in its habitable zone are very likely tidally locked. This means that there’s a good chance the civilizations that arose on them have no concept of “Distant Stars,” much less develop the desire and the tech to venture among them.

But I could be wrong about that. Still, if the scenario I outlined for the astronomers of Kepler-435b had played out on one of Trappist-One’s planets:

For a probe traveling at almost half the speed of light to arrive in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, it would have had to leave its home while we Earthling Americans were engaged in our Civil War – killing each other over whether some of us have the right to own others of us.

Those astronomers would’ve started listening for a return signal around the time Ronald Reagan was threatening to bomb the Russians with that same purified uranium. That signal was that was fated never to arrive.

Those astronomers might’ve shrugged their equivalent of shoulders, and wrote it off as a valiant, but failed, attempt.

If, however, they were determined to find us, and make contact, because they’re even more optimistic and friendly than we are, and allowing time to build a second probe to send it chasing after the first one…

That second “message in a bottle” wouldn’t arrive here until almost 2100.

If they already had a second probe ready to go, and their tech advanced in the meantime, and they manage the miraculous traveling speed of three-quarters Light Speed – we might get a second chance to say “Hello. Sorry about the misunderstanding,” in 2042-ish.

[askcometcare]

OOC: keeping track of ages is going to be fucking impossible. i just saw that blair's hatchday also should have passed by now in-universe so she's 15 now