The fact that the balloon was involved in Cold War surveillance of the Soviet Union may have helped to propel rumours of a cover-up. For 31 years the story was largely forgotten until The National Enquirer reported the original Roswell Daily Record story again, but not the correction. Following the publication of the new story, theories suggesting that the government's incomplete account had been an attempt to cover-up the discovery of an alien spacecraft began to take root.
Several people claimed to have seen debris scattered over a wide area and at least one person reported seeing a blazing aircraft in the sky shortly before it crashed, but the key account came from a former mortician, Glenn Dennis, who claimed in that a friend who worked as a nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field had accidentally walked into an examination room where doctors were bent over the bodies of three creatures.
They apparently resembled humans, but with small bodies, spindly arms and giant bald heads. Experts immediately ridiculed the footage as a hoax and he admitted years later that it was almost entirely fake.
Nevertheless, Santilli insisted real footage existed, but due to its poor condition he had been forced to recreate it. Coincidentally, the republication of the story came just one year after the release of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, a film about a government conspiracy covering up alien visits to Earth. Looking at UFO sightings data from both sides of the Atlantic, a direct correlation between popular films involving aliens and real world UFO sightings becomes evident.
One possible explanation for this is that the reporting centre became both better known and easier to contact with the advent of new technologies such as fax machines and the internet. In , The Economist analysed the available data from to and found that most UFOs were reported when people were drunk. Even though Project Mogul was declassified in the s, it wasn't fully connected to Roswell until when the normally secretive National Security Agency finally published an in-depth report refuting all claims of a conspiracy at the site.
A second report , released in , concluded that reports of alien bodies actually related to life-sized anthropomorphic test dummies. But by providing detailed analysis of the Roswell incident, many analysts believe that the US government inadvertently fuelled interest in conspiracy theories and public suspicions that the US military was involved in a cover-up.
Because of the huge notoriety surrounding the Roswell incident, the town has become Ground Zero for UFO conspiracists. Each year on the anniversary of the story, thousands of enthusiasts embrace all things alien and paranormal at a UFO Festival. There, they can dissect mock alien bodies and take part in scientific experiments. Last year, to mark 70 years since the incident was first reported, around 38, people turned up from all over the world.
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By James Jennings. Also in , a former Pentagon official confirmed the existence of a federal agency that had been secretly investigating UFOs since , and which may still be active today. Mindy Weisberger is a Live Science senior writer covering a general beat that includes climate change, paleontology, weird animal behavior, and space. Mindy holds an M. Her videos about dinosaurs, astrophysics, biodiversity and evolution appear in museums and science centers worldwide, earning awards such as the CINE Golden Eagle and the Communicator Award of Excellence.
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