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Originally posted by mmiichael
The notion that there is this monolithic archestructure with top secret projects almost no one knows about is dispelled pretty quickly when you get to know these people and hear what they say.
Originally posted by mmiichael
The notion that there is this monolithic archestructure with top secret projects almost no one knows about is dispelled pretty quickly when you get to know these people and hear what they say.
Originally posted by mmiichael
Despite an erroneous newspaper report there was no saucer crash in New Mexico in 1947. The Operation MOGUL, NYU balloon project, flight #4 was the only debris recovered by Mac Brazel and Jesse Marcel Sr.
The considerable substantiation for this can be found summarized on the link below.
Excerpted is some commentary by the author on why some people still choose to believe otherwise.
Mike
home.comcast.net...
Despite claims that General Ramey was involved in a cover-up, nothing can be farther from the truth. Many of the quotes from contemporary sources do not have Ramey saying it was definitely a weather balloon. Instead, he is quoted as identifying the debris as coming from a radar target and balloon/weather balloon. While not exactly a weather balloon, the debris in the photographs was from a series of balloons and radar reflectors. While he was not exactly correct, he did not lie about what was found.
Needless to say the response from the "Crash" authors was immediate and they began to question the report. For years, they had proposed that the witnesses had handled debris from an actual flying saucer. They rallied the faithful into a chorus of catcalls and trivializing of the report. However, they overlooked many of the obvious answers to their objections in an effort to make it seem that the report was flawed. Today, there are a significant number of UFOlogists, who have decided that the Project MOGUL explanation fits. It seems only the Roswell faithful and those who have invested a significant amount of time writing about the subject are hanging on to the UFO crash scenario.
Almost all the crashed spaceship proponents knee-jerked at the possible explanation for the incident. Having spent thousands of hours and printed numerous books and movie deals, is it any wonder that they would try and find reasons, no matter how trivial, to reject the possibility that it was not an alien spaceship crash?
The pro-crashed saucer advocates have taken their best shot. Unfortunately, they can not stand up to the documentation concerning NYU project. Their strong desire to grasp any minor point and inflate it to make it appear that the NYU balloon train could not fit the descriptions is a smoke screen designed to help the faithful maintain their conviction and not jump ship. However, the coincidences associated with the NYU flights and the events described by many of the witnesses are too close to ignore. Is it mere coincidence that the general description of the debris given by many witnesses is similar to the materials that Dr. Moore used in his flight #4? Is it mere coincidence that flight #4 was never recovered and that it was last seen in the area near the debris field? Is it mere coincidence that the alien hieroglyphics were purple/pink, the same color as the figures on the tape used by the reflectors? Is it mere coincidence that the NYU project was active in the New Mexico area at the correct time? Is it mere coincidence that the photographs of the debris in Ramey’s office show the same type of radar reflectors used by the NYU project
It is clear that the author’s will never accept the flight #4 answer because they claim that they have overwhelming evidence to support their claim that an actual alien spaceship crashed near Roswell.
Originally posted by Frank Warren
Mike, these old arguments were trumped long ago, and no matter what kind of spin debunkers want to put on it, Mogul was made up of neoprene balloons and rawin targets--nothing exotic. Moreover, Moore--the very person who was involved with Mogul clearly states that it could not produce that much debris, which was confirmed by the very witness you herald--Bessie Brazel
I think you were doing better with the "Nazi blue print prototypes."
Originally posted by MAC269
So my only conclusion is that what ever the secret is, it is so devastating that it can never be released.
I have also heard that the secret can not be kept idea which to my mind is nonsense. Area 51, several 737’s leave Las Vegas every day for that destination and no one knows what goes on in there. In the 1940’s there was the Manhattan project and the vice president on becoming president had to be told what it was about. These are but two of many I am sure. There are hundreds if not thousands of people involved in both these projects. They don’t talk and it would seam that people have died who wanted to talk about Roswell.
Originally posted by MAC269
For one thing it has to be costing a fortune as there has to be quite literally an army of people keeping these folks in line.
Here is an idea suppose one of you friends in computers may be just say he was one of the really top boffinns in his field was approached by for the want of a better word the men in black. He is offered a chance to work on some really exotic stuff but he is told that he and his family will only ever be safe again so long as he never breaths a word of his work. Then he gets into the job and he is told the real reason.
What do you think??? He is going to tell you over a pint at the local pub??
Originally posted by MAC269
So what is your line on all this stuff that is quite obviously flying around??
Originally posted by Gazrok
you'd have to accept that the top-ranking intel officers from the only air base deemed secure enough to carry nuclear ordinance, could somehow mistake balsa wood and foil paper (like from a Hershey bar) for something out of this world.... If they were truly that incompetent, we'd all be speaking Russian right now...
Originally posted by mmiichael
Originally posted by Frank Warren
Mike, these old arguments were trumped long ago, and no matter what kind of spin debunkers want to put on it, Mogul was made up of neoprene balloons and rawin targets--nothing exotic. Moreover, Moore--the very person who was involved with Mogul clearly states that it could not produce that much debris, which was confirmed by the very witness you herald--Bessie Brazel
I think you were doing better with the "Nazi blue print prototypes."
Hi Frank,
I went through the latest installment of your Warren Report. Each point has validity, but this all devolves somewhat to questioning sources and arguing interpretations rather than fact finding. There never seems to be more clarity, just increasing obfuscation.
At this point, like the JFK assassination investigation, I think the trail has been muddied by so many questionable reports and manipulation of data, and so much suggestion, it's nearly impossible to separate information from pseudo-information any more.
A point I tried to make, is that aside form UFO investigators there are people who were positioned to know about a crashed saucer and any breakthrough technologies that might arise, were keeping their eyes and ears open for the last 50 years.
Groundbreaking discovery of this magnitude attract interest and discussion is inevitable. Only in movies and bad fiction is there a world of zombie-like spooks, mad geniuses in lab coats, ultra-top secret facilities.
There are thousands of people who have worked on government projects and moved on to academia and the business world. They aren't all chained to a wall somewhere or sworn to secrecy with threats.
For th most part they are older guys who were once young. MAny entertained various conspiracy notions and were interesed in the UFO phenomenon when it was still fresh in the 50s and 60s.
I've been in the same room as guys who were around decades ago talking about near disaster nuclear facility mishaps, stolen government data, near collisions with WW III. These are people who would know if anyone would. The community is not that overwhelmingly huge. Friendships develop, even marriages. Almost nothing is completely kept secret. People talk.
You don't want to hear what they've said on those rare occasions when the ETH or UFOs come up.
Myself I don't doubt UFOs, accept the prospect of alien contact, believe the US govt is capable of practically anything.
But find the Roswell story does not add up to something important being kept secret for 60 years. There may be an as yet undisclosed component.
But I am pretty certain it doesn't involve a downed alien space craft.
With every extant scrap of paper being dug up and every old-timer interviewed a dozen times, and nothing solid ever emerging, I only become further convinced.
Thanks for listening,
Mike
[edit on 15-6-2009 by mmiichael]
Originally posted by yeti101
reply to post by Frank Warren
i'm interested to know how you deal with Marcels statement that he was only ever photographed with genuine debris from the ranch. If that is true we know from the photos it was balloon material recovered.
[edit on 15-6-2009 by yeti101]