Jul 23 2007
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Roswell: A Review
As you’ll know, a couple of weeks ago me and Greg were both speaking at the Roswell UFO Festival: Greg on Contactees and me on my Body Snatchers in the Desert book.
Well, an interesting review of that weekend of events has been posted to the Net courtesy of Matt Cale, who also discusses his attendance at various lectures at the official UFO Museum in town and his trip out to one of the alleged crash sites.
As Cale states in part, and with a high degree of justification, it can be argued:
“Whether part of the Cold War or simply a minor affair blown out of proportion by local hucksters, it doesn’t really matter in one important respect: The celebration of the event has replaced the event itself in our collective memory, and as such, has become the only history we’ll ever hold dear. Roswell is no longer a location, but a way of life: a way to make a buck, a way to feel important, a way to be part of a group, or even a way to escape an otherwise dull reality for a day or two. In some way, I’d like to know what really happened that day in 1947, if only to satisfy my historical curiosity, but as that initial impulse passes, I reconsider, preferring instead that the ruse rule the day. And while the world keeps spinning, we’ll debate long into the night, citing pet authors and indispensable videos, and by the end, hoarse from excitement and passion, we’ll be no closer to the truth than before. Then we’ll be back again next year, and the year after that, and we’ll puff out our chests, peruse the latest breaking news, and wrap it all up with a parade.”
For the rest of the article, click here.
And on the subject of Roswell reviews, I’m finishing up reading the three latest Roswell books: Witness to Roswell; Roswell Revisited; and The Best of Roswell.
I’ll be reviewing them all next week in what even I hope will be the last we hear for a very long time from the case for which the term “overkill” was truly born. That is, unless something truly definitive surfaces…
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July 25th, 2007 at 12:31 am
Have you read Karl Pflock’s “Roswell : Inconvenient Facts and the Will to Believe”? It looks pretty good. I accept it’s conclusion. Any thoughts out there?
July 25th, 2007 at 9:04 am
Well, I agree with Karl in the sense that I think it unlikely that aliens crashed at Roswell. I also agree that the event that sparked the UFO crash story involved one or more classified balloon-based events.
However, where I differ from Karl (and the USAF, who came to the same conclusion as Karl) is that, as I detailed in my “Body Snatchers in the Desert” book, the balloons were linked with controversial high-altitude experiments using human beings.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
I must admit, I have only started Karl’s book a few times & not yet finished it. So, any hard assertions I make are not probaly worth much. I do remember the air force made a claim that high altitude experiments with human beings or dummies were responsible for what people saw, but that this claim must be questionable because those high-altitude tests did not occur until years after Roswell. On the other hand, since this event occurred so many years ago, & peoples memories being inherently faulty, witnesses of crash test dummies may yet account for witness testimony of bodies at Roswell. Nick, is there anything faulty in my reasoning here?
July 25th, 2007 at 9:15 pm
Yes, the idea that the bodies were actually dummies was the entire thrust of the Air Force’s crash test dummy report.
The dummies weren’t used until the early 50s, however, and when asked how they could reconcile this with people who said they had seen little bodies in 47, the US Air Force said it was all due to “time compression,” where people get the year mixed up.
Frankly, I think anyone would recognize a dummy.
However, I still think we have to look at a classified experiment before we get into the issue of aliens, however.