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 The Mother of all Crashes: The Roswell Incident
On 8 July 1947, just 14 days after Kenneth Arnold’s “first reported sighting” of a “flying saucer”, Jesse Marcel, of the press office of Roswell Army Air Force Base (AAFB) in New Mexico, announced that a “flying disc” had crashed on a ranch not far from the base, and that the wreckage had been recovered. Roswell AAFB was at that time the home of the world’s only atomic air squadron – the aircraft that bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki two years earlier had set out from there – and was, consequently, the most high-security military installation in America, if not the world.
The “crashed disc” story was retracted within hours, with the explanation that the crashed object was simply a “weather balloon” and that the original announcement had been a mistake. The story was revived in 1978, when UFO researcher Stanton Friedman was introduced to a man who was a friend of Jesse Marcel. Friedman shared this information with William Moore, who joined forces with Charles Berlitz, the then “red hot” author of the Bermuda Triangle. The fame of the Roswell Incident, in which an apparent extra-terrestrial spacecraft had crashed, with the event subsequently officially denied and covered up by the US government, had just been born more.....
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 Crop Circle Theories
Crop circles are areas of cereal or similar crops that have been systematically flattened to form various geometric patterns. The phenomenon itself only entered the public imagination in its current form after the notable appearances in England in the late 1970s. Various scientific and pseudo-scientific explanations were put forward to explain the phenomenon, which soon spread around the world.
In 1991, more than a decade after the phenomena began, two men, Doug Bower and Dave Chorley, revealed that they had been making crop circles in England since 1978 using planks, rope, hats and wire as their only tools. Many other people around the world are also openly making crop circles. Although the commonly accepted view today is that crop circles are a man-made phenomenon, paranormal explanations, often including UFOs, are still popular more.....
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