This is where another conspiracy theory starts, you have to remember that at the end of the second world war the arms race started as we’d entered the nuclear age and it has been suggested that it was a listening balloon. And that would be that, the whole thing was a mistake and the matter was closed.īut, say conspiracy theorists, if that was the case, why was it all packed up in wooden crates and shipped off to Fort Worth under the toppest most secrecy? If it was just a weather balloon surely they’d just gaffer tape it together and send it up again. The massed ranks of top brass and flunkies were out of the door before anyone could say, I have a question. Sorry for any inconvenience that may have been caused, and that’s the end of the statement, if you could hand your passes in on the way out I’d be grateful.” “Gentlemen of the world’s press,” don’t forget that this was 1947, “you remember that spaceship that we told you about yesterday, well it turns out, and you’re going to laugh at this, that it was actually a balloon. Flash bulbs were popping, the sound of scribbling was heard and the film cameras turning would drown out the lot of them, the statement would probably have gone like this.
The Generals and their assistants trooped into the room and one would stand in front of the others with some sheets of papers in his hand.
All of them would have been waiting with baited breath. The looks on their faces were a picture, imagine the scene, you’ve got the photographers at the front with those big bulbous flashes that burned out retinas, behind them the hacks with pads and pencils and behind them film crews standing on step ladders. They’d even been on the phone to their tailors arranging fittings for a new suit so they’d look good on stage as they collected their respective gongs. Some of them had already been writing their acceptance speeches for awards that they were expecting for being the first to tell the world about visitors from outer space. You can imagine the look on the faces of the reporters when they were summoned to the press conference on day two of the Roswell incident. They didn’t want some nosy journalist going out there and doing their job, the area was to be made sterile. The top brass also ordered a clean up squad to go out into the desert and pick up the rest of the debris that was left. One minute the world is imagining little green men wandering all over the place going bleep bleep and the next they’re being told that it was actually a balloon. So the day after the world had been told that aliens had crashed in the USA they were then told that it hadn’t been aliens but a weather balloon, what a let down. Something had to be done so the top brass were immediately despatched to the New Mexico desert to close the can of worms opened by Colonel Blanchard. The way communications were back in those days it was probably the first that the Pentagon had heard of it, let alone the President who would have choked on his ham and eggs when he read the papers. Majestic 12 – A Concept Album or Secret Organisation?Īfter the, alleged, cat was out of the bag things started to hot up in the old U.S.