Unidentified flying objects -- Sightings and encounters -- New Mexico -- Roswell
From 1947 until the late 1970s, the Roswell Incident was confined
to one alleged crash site. This site, located on the Foster Ranch
approximately 75 miles northwest of the city of Roswell, was the actual
landing site of a Project MOGUL balloon train in June 1947.[10] The
MOGUL landing site is referred to in popular Roswell literature as the
“debris field.”
In the 1970s, the 1980s and throughout the 1990s, additional witnesses
came forward with claims and descriptions of two other alleged crash
sites. One of these sites was supposedly north of Roswell, the other
site was alleged to have been approximately 175 miles northwest of
Roswell in an area of New Mexico known as the San Agustin Plains.[11]
What distinguished the two new crash sites from the original debris
field were accounts of alien bodies.
[Illustration: Fig. 11. Map of New Mexico depicting the “crash
sites” and “debris field.” ]
The Scenarios
[Sidenote: “_It must be emphasized that the claims of bodies only
became part of the Roswell Incident after 1978, when they were
erroneously linked to the July 1947 retrieval of Project MOGUL
components._”]
UFO enthusiasts have attempted to explain the obvious contradiction
of multiple impact sites involving only one alien craft through the
introduction of complicated scenarios. These scenarios have become
increasingly convoluted since the proponents of each crash site must
make allowances to have “their” flying saucer at the correct time
and place—the actual MOGUL balloon train landing site in early July,
1947—in order to “fit” with the rest of the story. The actual Project
MOGUL landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility,
and more importantly establishes a _time frame_, for the other accounts
that include reports of bodies. Flying saucer enthusiasts use the
documented presence of U.S. Army Air Forces personnel at the MOGUL
site in July 1947, who were there to retrieve the MOGUL balloon train,
to provide the nucleus of unrelated and much later accounts that
include reports of “bodies.” It must be emphasized that the claims of
“bodies” only became part of the Roswell Incident after 1978, when they
were erroneously linked to the July 1947 retrieval of Project MOGUL
components.
In general, “Roswell Incident” scenarios claim that a disabled alien
craft momentarily touched down at the site 75 miles northwest of
Roswell, leaving behind parts of the spaceship (material that has been
subsequently identified as components of a MOGUL balloon train) to
create the original “debris field.” The scenarios further contend that
the damaged craft again became airborne and flew to its final crash
site, at either the location north of Roswell or 175 miles northwest of
Roswell on the San Agustin Plains.
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