Roswell: How Many Scenarios? Pt. 1

Mysterious Universe

Back in January of this year, I penned an article for Mysterious Universe titledRoswell: Multiple Realities and MIB. It looked at the controversial scenario of how shifts in what we perceive as “reality” might allow for more than one theory for the Roswell affair to have merit. Granted, my article was purely speculative in nature, but it did provoke some interesting comments. It also provoked the question: exactly how many theories are there for what happened on the Foster Ranch, New Mexico in the summer of 1947? Well, the answer is: a hell of a lot! Incredibly, at least fourteen!

While some of those theories are well known – to the point of having now become legendary – others are far less so. And with that in mind, I figured it would be a good idea to acquaint everyone, once and for all, with the many and varied scenarios that have been posited for the truth behind the Roswell enigma. So, where do we start? The beginning, where else?

No-one disputes that something came crashing to earth in the wilds of New Mexico in early July 1947 – not even the world of officialdom. Indeed, history has shown that shortly after rancher Mack Brazel stumbled upon a large amount of mystifying material on the Foster Ranch (and possibly upon a number of unusual corpses, too – it has been suggested), staff at the Roswell Army Air Field issued a press-release stating that they had recovered nothing less than a “flying disc.”

Of course, this was barely two weeks after the famous UFO sighting of pilot Kenneth Arnold at the Cascade Mountains, Washington State – an event that near-singlehandedly gave birth to the “flying saucer.” Today, we have almost seventy years of “modern era” UFO reports to scrutinize – something which has allowed the extraterrestrial theory to develop and be widely embraced.

But,  it’s difficult to say for sure the extent to which the concept of “flying disc = alien spaceship” was widely accepted, just barely two weeks after the Arnold affair. In other words, when the military  said: “Yes, we have recovered a flying saucer,” it mayhave meant they had an extraterrestrial vehicle in their hands. On the other hand, it could also be interpreted as: “We have recovered a bunch of odd-looking wreckage that we think might be connected to those weird things in the sky people have been seeing for the last week or two – whatever they may be.”

Regardless of which scenario is correct, however, it is an undeniable fact that the recovery of a flying disc was confirmed – which is just one of the many things that make Roswell such an intriguing and enduring case. It’s also a fact that, in barely no time at all, the flying disc story was retracted and in its place the weather-balloon scenario surfaced. That’s two explanations in two days. In the years that followed, a dozen or so additional theories surfaced – some more plausible than others.

In no particular order of merit, here are the other theories that have zero to do with alien spaceships or weather-balloons:

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