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Originally posted by Venit
Why? Because he was lying, perhaps. Three years after a weather balloon crashes at Roswell, the U.S military decides that this alien rumour is a rather good cover for new technology, then this local crackpot turns up claiming alien bodies.
Guy Hottel was a Special Agent in Charge of the FBI's Washington Field Office. The information concerning Mr. Hottel is in regard to a March 22, 1950, memo he sent to the Director concerning flying saucers.
Originally posted by Nightchild
*L* The "Weatherballoon" is really a classic, isn't it.
Funny though, how few of the witnesses really agreed on that one, even those that really should be able to tell the difference, such as military-employees.
Originally posted by rickyrrr
I find it really laughable that people would assume the remains of an instrumentation balloon can be mistaken for a crashed flying saucer, it does not matter how much equipment happens to be the payload of said balloon.