Ask an Expert: The Roswell Incident

Dr. Roger Launius, senior curator in the Space History Division of the National Air and Space Museum, discusses the 1947 Roswell Incident -- UFOs, the Cold War and Chicanery in the desert. This informal gallery talk was recorded on March 20, 2011 as part of the National Air and Space Museum's "Ask an Expert" lecture series.
"Ask an Expert" lectures are presented weekly at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC and biweekly at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, VA. For more information & schedule, see www.nasm.si.edu...

[@lightworker4813]

So, when will the expert start his part of the presentation?

[@Code9]

Okay, I'm only 3:52 into this and already the guy doesn't know the facts. Kenneth Arnold didn't report seeing just one UFO, he saw 9 of them. He didn't call the objects "flying saucers". That term was coined by a reporter after Arnold was asked about the movement of the objects and said they moved in a manner resembling the motion of a saucer being skipped across the water. As far I know, Arnold never changed his description of the objects. As I recall the story, he always described them as being somewhat "gull-wing shaped", I think was the term he used. I don't know if the rest of this video is even worth watching. I suppose I will but I'm not expecting much in the way of factual info from this "expert".

[@fls13ec]

He makes some mistakes about general history too . . . the overall USSR/USA climate in 1946 had not gone that sour at that point. Someone in his position should know better.

[@glennwhite3286]

Code 9, what I dislike is someone changing what was told by other witnesses of this incident. An Air Force Colonel telling his Base information Officer to release a story to the press that a Disk/Saucer had been recovered, not that a bunch of of paper a balsa wood had been picked up by a Major that was the Base Intelligence Officer. Gen. Ramey even had 24 hours to pull back on the story and Mac Brazel just went under ground weeks later, no one even heard from again. I understand the need for secrecy, only thing is this crap "happens all over the World", so the lies are unnecessary.

[@cityandsuburb]

Glenn White Quite.....

[@BuggSmasher]

And they really want us to believe we're as stupid as them ! Yeh, right! How better to draw attention away from a 'secret' project than to say" Yes, we've captured a flying Saucer !" Go figure !

[@Revelator2025]

Bugg Smasher Lol so true. Shame on Smithsonian. “Ask an Expert”?!? ...I guess he had other obligations that day.

[@RBFR01]

so are you going to totally ignore the fact that Jessie Marcel had a son and wife who saw the alien materials?

[@hardcandy921]

Right. Not to mention the bodies and the injured living being seen by so many townspeople.

[@RBFR01]

@@hardcandy921 I don't think the towns people saw anything but covered up cargo being transported by trucks threw the town to the airport hanger. I know the farmer would have investigated the crash before alerting local authorities and then the air force personal that were all exposed to these creatures and the craft and the materials.

[@dwijgurram5490]

No evidence of radioactive poisoning. All weird twists and angles were added way later on. Death bed confessions are far removed in time. So all points to attention grabbing and Co ordinated effort. Roswell tourism is an industry folks. They too would use lobbying and marketing to fill up their pockets.

[@ethannielson942]

This guy should listen to the later testimony given by Lieutenant Colonel Jesse Marcel which is on film, where he openly says the weather balloon story was a cover-up and that a craft did indeed crash. Lives were threatened and people were told that they would be charged with a federal crime if they spoke publicly about the matter. If you wanted to continue living a somewhat normal life you needed to completely forget what you had seen or risk losing your life.

[@AOXOMOXO]

The "weather balloon" was a certainly cover up , for what was certainly not a mere weather balloon but a Mogul array pictured in the video and included some of the same materials as recovered by Mack Brazel and Marcell. Marcel said some of the junk on the floor in the photo was indeed the stuff he found, but not all of it was in the photo. Marcel unfortunately had a habit of exaggerating the facts...including his own military record...do some research on that...investigator Robert Todd's Kowpflop Quarterly vol. 1 no. 3

[@jeremytones]

Where can you see his testimony

[@brunoresendez184]

@@jeremytones Marcel: The newsmen saw very little of the material, a very small portion of it, and none of the important things like these members that have these members that had these hieroglyphics or markings on. They wanted me to tell them about it and I couldn't say anything. And when the general came in, he told me not to say anything, that he would handle it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/d5C0c4J6mplro6s 1:04

[@sjenk5000]

Paid Debunker!

[@heatherfults7506]

I’d say being told if I didn’t keep my mouth shut my life would be at risk would be enough to shut me up. I can’t blame them for keeping closed lipped, who could? I’m glad that it’s all coming to light more now than ever since the pentagon admitted that the UFO sightings were legit.

[@alexandersumrall6408]

This guy believes anything the government says for sure.

[@pahoboye]

exactly,just a debunk video

[@milesgreb3537]

You believe anything you read in tabloids

[@madaleine0n864]

" Government"........[ least culpable entity - indescribable grey area, at best a location manned by the most banal - pedestrian- boring civil service workers ...] Big stuff; " Government ..."

[@scottmcmahon7209]

I bet he believes that 911 was NOT an inside job

[@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433]

@@milesgreb3537 exactly

[@boogrbear9224]

Do they actually believe that we would buy that the 509th intelligence officer don"t know what their balloon looks like?

[@KCNYBC]

Exactly! ......and leave these same people who can't make out the difference of a weather balloon and a flying saucer in charge of nuclear weapons!?!?

[@TwrectusProductions]

lol! really..what an idiot!

[@fungoorstitch]

Mogul balloons were constantly being retrieved in those days. The locals commonly helped the military with the work. They knew a stupid weather balloon when they saw one.

[@seantyler7401]

Project mogul wasn’t started until 3 years later according to records. So not sure what you said was accurate

[@AOXOMOXO]

@@seantyler7401 "Project mogul wasn’t started until 3 years later according to records." - what is your source?...You can research the details of the Mogul balloon flights of NYU and Professor Charles Moore in Karl Pflocks book by date and flight number, and they launched in the spring/summer of 1947. specifically, Flight No. 4 launched on June 4, 1947, from Alamogordo Army Air Field and tracked it flying east-northeast toward Corona. It was within seventeen miles of the Brazel ranch when the tracking batteries failed and contact was lost.

[@RobertK1993]

@@AOXOMOXO No Project Mogul flight in June or July 1947 next one was August 1947bjonlogs of flight 4 in June/1947

[@TheArcturianCouncil]

Jesse Marcel, the first witness of the Roswell -47 incident was a hardened Lietenant Colonel of the United States Air Force and . Obviously, he knew that it wasn't a weather balloon. This is CONFIRMED by none other than Philip Corso, Battalion Commander of European Air Defense, Intelligence Staff Officer Plans & Estimate Branch GHQ Far East Command Chief Special Project Branch G-2 Section of the HQ AFFE 8000th AU Command Chief Foreign Technology Division of the United States Department of Defense. People that still bury their heads in the sand, SURE - GO AHEAD, but don't say there is no evidence. THEY ARE HERE. HAVE BEEN HERE. US GOV IS WORKING WITH THEM SINCE the 50s.

[@Maza675]

well, that clears that matter up. I'm going back to work, paying taxes and consuming goods now. Thank you.

[@timmcgrath1117]

I know look at all of us silly people here fretting over whether or not our planet is being visited by intelligent life. Can't imagine how this is in any way important.

[@guysmiley8567]

Hi Wolf. Say... were you ever known to comment on the Huffington Post back in the day by any chance?

[@enlightenedwarrior7119]

Lol. No signs of intelligent life on Earth

[@147-HH]

@@timmcgrath1117 it is important. Imagine being in north korea. Is freedom important?

[@blindspotspotter.2352]

Good one.

[@JRay2113]

Fast forward to 2020: "Off world vehicles not made on this Earth"

[@timmcgrath1117]

You seem to be nit picking, sir.

[@curiousbystander9193]

@Misty Art kzbin.info/www/bejne/nKCtiJWipd94oKM

[@robertbower7461]

Hear hear !!!

[@abhayrajeev7216]

How the turns tabled

[@ArchYeomans]

This guy is not an expert. He is an intelligence tool.

[@Ralph_Smith0724]

*There is an anecdote about The Roswell Incident: Art McQuiddy, editor of the Roswell Morning Dispatch newspaper, was friends with Air Force Colonel William Blanchard who wrote the first press release stating on it that the crash was a flying saucer. They were having a drink a few days after the crash. McQuiddy asked Blanchard, "What happened here a couple of weeks ago? The colonel said that he couldn't talk about it. A couple of drinks later, McQuiddy asked again the same question. The colonel replied: "I saw something here in Roswell that I had never seen before and I never want to see again."*

[@NorceCodine]

This guy couldn't sell ice cream in the Sahara.

[@SharickSlasher]

lol

[@moonled]

Arnold never said "flying saycer". He described the objects "moved like a saucer skimmed over water". The press picked up on "saucer" and called them "FLYING SAUCERS" and peopke started seeing ~ because that's what they'd been told to expect,

[@bms77]

Biggest mistake was bringing it to the sherif. That started the chain reaction that led to the potential cover up

[@waltersobchak7275]

Me no trust the Po-lease

[@mikeandre9052]

@@waltersobchak7275 Actually sherif Wilcox's family stated that through the remainder of his life he deeply regretted contacting the Army before first contacting the press. Sherif Wilcox's family testified that he actually witnessed the crash site (at corona) as well as the bodies. He died in 1961 and was never interviewed.

[@waltersobchak7275]

@@mikeandre9052 I don’t even know why I typed that to be honest. It may have been one of my kids

[@AOXOMOXO]

@@mikeandre9052 I think you've read Don Schmitts "Witness to Roswell" pg 237 to be exact. ...A book that interviews "hundreds of witnesses" and had me believing the Roswell story, until I realized that the "hundreds of witnesses" were in fact stories related second and third hand - stories that in a court of law are deemed hearsay, and not evidence. Interesting yes, but unfortunately a story related by a family member many years later lacks the status and credibility of a direct report by the actual eyewitness. Wish Wilcox had made a sealed affidavit in 1947 when his mind was clear (unlike the signed report Walter Haut made) to be opened upon his death or earlier.

[@jerryanstey7058]

Never talk to the police !

[@Dra741]

Colonel Blancher ordered the press release specifically stating that we have captured a flying disc it wasn't a loose conversation between Jesse Marcel Jesse Marcel would not be authorized to make such a release it had to come from the colonel Blanchard later was a 4-star General

[@groovyt8695]

''the UFO craze in 1947, really began' You sure? 'What about Foo Fighters or the objects seen around Oak Ridge uranium enrichment plant as early as 1944

[@billybatson8657]

Heck, just read the Bible, or read the text of the 1561 Nuremberg broadsheet of UFOs swarming the sky. 2 giant crescents come out of the direction of the sun, the sky fills with flitting globes, then a giant black "spearhead" triangle comes out and all the others run away. I guess whoever is flying the triangle is in charge.

[@lifefunseekertoday154]

yes....it was called "Secret City"

[@TrevorToonArt]

When you are trying to persuade people be as condescending as humanly possible. Flawless technique.

[@idontthinkso9537]

Now I understand why this is still top secret; 74 years later.

[@Roger-qh2zp]

Yeah,most people are fucking morons.

[@benthejrporter]

The debris in Gen. Ramey's office was NOT the Roswell artefacts. They had been switched.

[@Pavel_Poluian]

Consider the use of "flying saucers" (UFOs) as a means of delivering atomic weapons. This is very important and relevant, due to the fact that air defense is sharpened against ballistic missiles and aircraft, and UFOs calmly overcome them. The risk threshold has decreased - an atomic war may begin. It was the phenomenon of such devices in the late 80s that frightened the leadership of the USSR. All these "UFOs over Krasnoyarsk", "UFOs over Perm" + the explosion of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant... Therefore, the leaders of the CPSU went to an honorable surrender... However, for 30 years, the Russian Federation has been able to bring its electrokinetic flying machines to mind, and now there is panic in the United States - unknown objects are flying over the territory of both NATO and the United States. They have something to be afraid of: such combat UFOs will successfully deliver nuclear bombs to decision-making centers and enemy missile silos, bypassing air defense. Americans were very scared of our "flying triangles" and other unidentified phenomena, so the May meeting of the US Congress on UFOs was started in open mode, and then had to be classified. There are still no details in the media - what did the congressmen learn from intelligence? Now the situation is extremely tense, because "flying saucers", "triangles", etc. are very dangerous weapons. So, the threshold for starting an atomic war has dropped sharply, there is a real temptation to strike the first blow without fear of a response...

[@parthrajpal3574]

I am watching this 10 years after this upload thank you for caring for future generations 👍

[@akshaytale9411]

are you here from angad kahai's video😁😆

[@parthrajpal3574]

@@akshaytale9411 yes bro

[@parthrajpal3574]

How did you know that

[@hardcandy921]

@Parth Rapala, If you want the real story from both officials and people in the town itself, read the book *Witness to Roswell*. It is the most painstakingly researched book in the topic. Or read through the FBI's vault of declassified UFO/UAP documents: vault.fbi.gov/UFO Or the CIA's similar vault: www.cia.gov/readingroom/collection/ufos-fact-or-fiction Or the NSA's trove of documents: www.nsa.gov/news-features/declassified-documents/ufo/ Research the Iranian Air Force's compelling encounters with UFOs. Or the detailed UFO sighting reports by American presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan. The things this speaker says are incorrect, for the most part. But for some people, it doesn't matter--they will accept illogical explanations without questioning or looking at other evidence, because other evidence may threaten their comfortable worldview. Cheers~

[@parthrajpal3574]

@@hardcandy921 thats great man but i don't read books 👍😁

[@davejames885]

It doesn't really matter if Roswell is bogus or not. Too many people have seen nuts and bolts UFOs so it's a moot point. This guy thinks that discrediting Roswell discredits the existence of craft, he's grasping at straws.

[@37rainman]

Yuh, when i was 18, i found several nuts and bolts from a ufo in the back 40

[@reubanrajan2679]

"The city lived off the Rosewell incident". This guy is clearly living off discrediting this incident.

[@antiquefuturistic]

He is also calling the residents “slackers” indirectly

[@jasonschmieg9186]

This is like watching a 5th grader stuttering through his half assed past event report he threw together that morning. ...ps good luck selling one of those books

[@Dodgevair]

"I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." J. Edgar Hoover-Director of FBI The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam." Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program. "A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered." -Dr. Edwin Mitchell Apollo 14..the 6th NASA employee to walk on the Moon. "Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955. “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -William Casey, CIA director, 1981 “Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ” ― Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds MEANINGFUL congressional hearings, ala the Watergate hearings, including aerospace/defense contractors and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal, EXTRATERRESTRIAL cover-up. How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say? The dog n pony shows must cease.

[@65geoffrey]

The main problem I have with this account is the wreckage as depicted in the photograph. I am quite convinced that these are remnants of a Project Mogul balloon, but how do we know that this is the same wreckage that crashed on Bazel's ranch. Is there an evidence trail between the initial collection of the wreckage and its journey to the base and the photography.

[@CATSWITHKYLA]

No. Many weather balloons have crashed and don't make history like this. This was not a weather balloon

[@bafflezbiz]

In a Ted Talk- a well respected, published author stated that all of those involved with the photographs have come out and admitted that they were staged and coordinated at another location far from Roswell (and far from the actual wreckage). This aligns with the opposing, inconsistent stories, and was clearly a cover up of something they didn't want to share with the public. This may have been a secret aerial program, but then why initially report that they had recovered wreckage of an extraterrestrial aircraft?

[@AOXOMOXO]

@@bafflezbiz Roswell myth will live on forever, thanks to bungling officers making a name for themselves before the outrageous over reaction by heavy handed apes that threatened the local citizens over something that was indeed a classified program but in hindsight is laughable.

[@Master_Bruce_Wayne]

@@bafflezbiz also Marcel was an expert of aerial metals in aircrafts, there no way he would of “mistaken” foil sticks and rubber for alien metal and rushed home to show his son, it’s ridiculous and he later admitted it was not a weather balloon

[@TCNN0204]

While we may never know whether Roswell was extraterrestrial, this is perhaps the most remarkably amateur debunking of the incident ever made. The Mogul project was above top secret but the components of the Mogul device were not. The army flew dozens of these & lost more than half of them. The components were anything but secret. Regarding Roswell, do your own research but it is not disputed that whatever came down on Mac Brazel’s ranch was flown to Wright Patterson for examination the next day. The 509th was the most resourced army facility in the country with the best & brightest to staff it (being the only unit with atomic bombs). If they could not identify what fell on that ranch, and we know that because components were flown to Wright Pat, then we can be certain it was extraordinary.

[@cammontreuil7509]

It was a V -2 that crashed. Werner Von Braun said so himself. He even went to the crash site. He was working at White Sands at the time in secret. He said so in 1968 while working on the Saturn 5 project.

[@TCNN0204]

@@cammontreuil7509 Perhaps it was a V-2. Actually that might even make sense. I’ve been studying Roswell off & on since I was 12 years old in 1978 & do not recall anyone offering that idea….but my respectful pushback would be to ask in turn….wouldn’t Mr. Marcell have recognized the basic parts and/or general components of a V2? Again unfortunately it appears we will never know with certainty except I do recall former President Trump saying he heard “interesting” things (plural) about Roswell in an interview with his son. Most important I am by no means an expert. All I say is let’s keep the conversation open. Thank you for the post

[@cammontreuil7509]

@@TCNN0204 Marcel wouldn't know what a V -2's fuel tank skin was nor the propulsion system of the V-2, which was made of high heat exotic material. The words of Van Braun and comments have been obscured by utube. But Braun stated he went to the crash site in 1947 to inspect his rocket. It's a fact Van Braun was working at White Sands in secret as part of paper clip.

[@TCNN0204]

@@cammontreuil7509 I did not know that. Yours is the second reasonable alternative I’ve ever heard. Thank you for sharing

[@dazwillz7137]

In Wales we have our own version of Roswell, but in this case the findings were kept hidden from Ministry of Defence by the land owner & UFO researchers. Metals similar to aluminium were found by the land owner scattered across four fields, ranging from 6 foot to tiny fragments. Experts have studied the honeycomb patterned debris and don't know what it is. What's strange about this story is, after the MOD cleared the fields of debris, the forestry commission took away trees and even removed soil. When the farmer phoned the forestry commission and grilled the employer, the employer replied "this is what I've been told to say". Apparently a UFO hit the trees but didn't crash and continued on its way.

[@Mclenchie]

Great doc about it here kzbin.info/www/bejne/jHu3eKOuhNatoKM

[@billpugh58]

Lol, it was from one of the many live ranges used by the Uk military in Wales!

[@nathanielalgernon975]

Bentwater AFB in the UK is almost as good as Roswell I think.

[@billybatson8657]

Right off the bat, this guy is claiming Mac Brazel "threw some of the debris into the back of his truck and drove down to see the sherrif". Brazel had a HORSE and drug some of the debris with his horse into town to see the sherrif; he didn't even own a truck! At least not until the military held him for a week, then suddenly he had a NEW truck..... Maybe if this guy did some research first he'd actually learn something.

[@JJohnJohn]

They found 3 alien bodies in a weather balloon?🤪

[@icanfly2245]

While I was looking through my telescope I captured this bright object, what happened next stunned me to silence, it move very fast so I first used my naked eye to find it again then I directed my telescope onto it but as soon as I had the object it again moved only in the opposite direction, I kept going back and forth leaving me to the only conclusion, it knew I was watching it, I am not one of those people who thinks the world revolves around me but during the whole incident I really did feel like it was me and this object, that may sound crazy but it's the truth,

[@lifefunseekertoday154]

Yo. Me too (i have a basic scope on my deck) Elon Musk has several (100's?) of sats flying round up there....I once caught a whole string of 'em. some change dir, some stall, some move at diff speeds......you may have seen one too by the sounds of it. ...but I'm still lookin for 'visitors' out there!

[@Modernaire]

I was stargazing recently one clear night, I fixated on two stars for a moment, then the one slightly to the right of the slightly brighter star, moved, in a clockwise spiral motion and disappeared.

[@spankynater4242]

@@Modernaire I was once stargazing, and my telescope accidentally looked into my neighbors window. She took her top off. They bounced up and down.

[@laturista1000]

Were you using CE5 portocol? Were you communicating with sentients through your mind.

[@RWRogers]

@@spankynater4242 “accidentally” …. Yeah… I’m sure. creeper 🤨🤨

[@BramMichaelson]

3:15 HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHA I actually laughed so hard I started my cat. Right "no documentation anywere". Riiiiight. I guess he didn't Google "the black vault"

[@Sonic-ro3ot]

This guy will see a UFO and call it a weather balloon.

[@37rainman]

actually it was a secret military device, and it was very convenient for the military that goonies claimed it was a ufo. The world is full of people ready to be goonies. Just read the comments under this vid

[@Sonic-ro3ot]

You are a non believer like many others who believe a UFO is a weather balloon. The Pentagon have finally admitted for the first time that they have UFO materials not made from this earth. But someone like you would think that its a weather balloon. Its because your afraid of the truth and telling yourself that UFO's are not real, does not hide the fact that US Navy Air pilots have seen these unknown objects in are skies. Like many people around the world who have seen UFO's. The are billions and trillions of stars in are universe. Our sun is a star and we have evolved on are planet. How many more planets are out there in space which could maintain advanced life forms and have evolved around their star just like we have. Look up to the stars and see how many of them that you can see, and that will tell you that the chance is we are not alone. Stop being scared.

[@charlesw5357]

2021 pentagon has all the indication you need

[@stickofbutter9733]

I do not know the truth. However, l appreciate the unwavering diligence & tenacity of my fellow citizens in the pursuit of truth.

[@TheParanormalDetective]

Yep, he does not even know the names of the key players. William "Bull" Blanchard, not "Butch"... I made it to time 5:36 and I am done...

[@rodbutler8069]

Another interesting side story is that Col "Butch" Blanchard became an Air Force 4 star General in charge of Special Technical Advancement Projects in the Pentagon. (Back engineering alien spacecraft)???

[@gvl1260]

I thought I've heard it wrong. Okay, yeah. Nothing to see here.

[@dr.phillnaadoftennessee.9788]

It's a damn shame how they disgraced the major like that...

[@gregoriosamsa2722]

"Ask an expert" Yep, an expert in desinformation

[@popindosin228]

Why

[@allancove4483]

Yeah, that's some real high advanced technology those aliens have. Balsa wood. Yep. They are SO many light years ahead of us, but all they brought to the table was balsa wood. Now THAT'S funny. lmfao

[@allancove4483]

@Jacob Haas I was being sarcastic. lol

[@vulcanman64]

This guy is a puppet for sure. He doesn’t even have a clue.

[@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433]

& your conspiracy theory believing ass has ALL the answers right? Smh lmao😂

[@vernpascal1531]

@@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433 The official story is so stupid only assholes try and defend it.

[@jamesramplin8124]

@@vernpascal1531 The official story isn't stupid. You're stupid for believing it was aliens.

[@raskolnikov9248]

Go watch Jesse Marcel being interviewed about it, and explain that.

[@TheParanormalDetective]

Not an expert. Arnold never reported a flying saucer.

[@billybatson8657]

SR-71 designer Kelly Johnson drew the EXACT same batwing vehicle for the project bluebook files.

[@davetuara-ed4gw]

He so funny , where can I catch his show I need a good laugh 😂😂😂

[@janhuddleston3144]

The best answer for us on Roswell is that exactly how many military personnel were sent out to recover debris and how long did it last? How many high ranking officials showed up on the scene? Is this area still somewhat secure? None of this is there.

[@alfeinstein4168]

July 1947 Roswell, the only place in time and history where USAF officers couldn't tell the difference between a balloon and alien spacecraft.

[@johnrohlfs4185]

Thanks Thompson Colorado Springs Police

[@MiklosKoncsek]

a quote - "Well...how does a weather balloon affect our national security?"

[@rowdyyates4273]

Antartica may well be the place where these craft fly from as well as bases under the sea bed!!!

[@ianwattsOfficial]

The funny thing is the dates timeline... Totally different...

[@Revelator2025]

For many, the Smithsonian is an historically respected institution which has documented the many discoveries of a significant nature for our contemporary culture to study and acknowledge in academic fashion. For others it represents the repository for numerous controversial objects and discoveries to have been acquiesced and kept FROM the public at large, over the last 150-200 years or so. And for that, I have little respect for this arm of compromised and cherry-picked societal narration. I hold little faith that its presentation here with regard to the Roswell crash holds any conclusive relevance other than being the culturally-accepted “spokesperson” for some undisclosed collective of persons in positions of power, to portray what THEY have decided the Roswell incident shall be remembered as being, in YOUR mind. Unfortunately this storytelling is at odds with the massive amount of testimony and details collected which uniformly corroborates an event which was clearly of an extraordinary nature that holds no resemblance to Project Mogul to any degree. This gentleman, the so-called “expert” gets a lot of facts WRONG, giving a watered down skewed account/synopsis of which its conclusions are counter to what the details and facts present in witness testimony from highly credible military and civilian individuals. Its basically a government-approved version of the Roswell story with a representative ‘talking head’ speaker placed before an audience and video crew in order to help our “educated” citizenry and other curious parties come to some resolve and conclusion with this historic event. It would have been great if this attempt of historical narrative was the truth but sadly, it’s not. In keeping with highly suspect Smithsonian ‘integrity’, this presentation misleads the viewer, keeping people once again from understanding what certain private parties feel you do not have any right to know about. Here’s a more befitting, intelligent examination of the Roswell incident and the ufo phenomenon in general for educated individuals: kzbin.info/www/bejne/apm7Xnt7aK2UkNU

[@Taminggravity4u]

Love it!

[@AceGoodheart]

Very well said.

[@hardcandy921]

Hear hear! Intelligently articulated.

[@dalecain1158]

Going by what this guy said, why would they contact a General in Dallas Tx if it was just a weather balloon? Makes absolutely no sense!

[@michealschmidt908]

How do you explain thin metal you can crunch up it then has memory to fold straight back out like memory foam today but metal the nurse that describes alien bodies then goes missing why the airforce ordered child coffins ?

[@robertothayer5123]

Although he is mostly correct, Dr. Launius needs to get his historical facts right. Kenneth Arnold counted numerous objects that he claimed "skipped across the sky like a saucer on water". A reporter coined the term "flying saucers" then and there. It is my opinion that Jesse Marcel decided to pull a prank, a hoax and talked his buddies into saying that they had a disc in their possession. They went along with Marcel's prank and told the press in Roswell and the rest was history. The good doctor is absolutely correct in that there were never any bodies mentioned until way after the fact. Project Bluebook never even mentioned the Roswell incident. He is also correct in that there was never a UFO crash in Roswell. Actually rumors of aliens and crashed UFO's stems from a completely different incident which occurred in 1950. A UFO supposedly crashed in Aztec, NM and there was a book written about it in 1952. In fact, the FBI recently (2017) investigated the books' publishers related to details described in that book that were of National Security concerns. I am actually writing a book about the entire event called Roswell: The Great American Hoax.

[@docmarion8902]

I’m not saying anything But that picture was proven to be fake By the same people who appeared on the picture

[@Dra741]

Got the story about Arnold completely wrong

[@user-rg7zu9tu4p]

In Puerto Rico happened the same: One Craft crash in 1985.People heard a Huge Explosion!!!!!.

[@asior6784]

Copies of two letters, Top Secret military transcripts and notes from the late Matilda O'Donnell MacElroy, an Army Air Force nurse at the Roswell Army Air Field 509th Bomb Group in 1947. In her letters she asserts that the transcripts are an exact recording of a series of interviews she conducted with an extraterrestrial being as part of her official duty as a flight nurse in the U.S. Army Air Force. During July and August she interviewed a saucer pilot who crashed near Roswell, New Mexico on July 8th, 1947. The being she interviewed identified itself as an officer, pilot and engineer with an Invasion Force from a civilization she refers to as "The Domain". Their space craft use the planet Venus and the asteroid belt as space ports in our solar system. The Milky Way galaxy is a tiny area within the territorial possessions of “The Domain”. The interview transcripts were kept secret - under threat of death - by Nurse MacElroy for 60 years, and released a few months before her passing at the age of 83.

[@tylerrogers8807]

I listened to that story 3 times I believe it's true I thought a lot of people don't believe it is I wasn't too much up on this stuff until a few weeks though when I saw one in the air So I've been doing a lot of investigating All the way back to the Ancient times If you start from the past it makes a lot of sense

[@_shadow_5110]

Good ol reference for my game

[@reubanrajan2679]

Well this is ageing really bad😂.

[@edoedo8686]

Excellent! The real story is about people and their culture.

[@pillgrimm]

Look up internet historian: incognito mode and find his newest video. It's informative

[@wfenio]

to hear the other side look up 'Donald Schmitt Roswell' on you tube.

[@mentalistsa]

Absolutely, 600 individuals interviewed over 20 years including death bed confessions. IF a weather balloon, explain all those who went to the grave refusing to speak about it even to family before dying? A weather balloon covering at minimum two football fields of debris. Definitely he had his mind made up before producing this video.

[@SEB1991SEB]

2:35 "He called it a flying saucer" No, he didn't. When referring to how the UFO moved, he compared it to a saucer skimming across a lake. The press then misinterpreted his words, thinking that he was referring to the shape of the UFO (this is pretty interesting, since it means that the classic image of a UFO that we all know is actually based off a misinterpretation). You might think then that this makes sense, since you mention that he changed his story in later years, saying that he actually witnessed a crescent-shaped UFO (and the UFO image that he's posing with just 20 seconds earlier in this video has a crescent shape rather than a saucer shape). The explanation could be that he never claimed to have witnessed a saucer-shaped UFO (that was a misinterpretation), that he only ever claimed to have witnessed a crescent-shaped UFO, and so it is a misconception that he changed his story. This isn't the whole story either though. Instead the shape of the UFOs that he described at the time were roughly circular, with a pointed back, and he drew a diagram of this shape at the time (coincidentally, this shape does look more-or-less like a saucer shape anyway). He did say that one of the UFOs had this crescent shape though. So he may not have necessarily changed his story by saying that they were crescent-shaped, he may have just started to focus on that particular UFO shape instead (unless he is quoted as saying explicitly that they were all circular, in which case I take this back. I couldn't find any such quote though). It is strange that he would put so much emphasis on the crescent-shaped UFO though, when only one of them had this shape. By doing so, it kind of implies that this was the primary shape of the UFOs. It is possible he wanted to draw attention away from the circular UFOs, since they more closely resembled the classic pop-culture image of a flying saucer, which may have become a bit silly looking by that point. But that's just my thought.

[@61rdf]

So shallow!!!

[@collectorfun]

But the son of Jesse Marcel said "was a non human craft, and the materials are not from this earth" ...as many many more of the involved.

[@chrisrendon461]

Its called being mistaken

[@user-en4wb9pz8f]

Hill the world maker playlist please.

[@ianwattsOfficial]

An expert??? You just maybe eating your hat 🎩 Oops this was done 10yr ago,, more an more have come forward and shed light on those funny little twisted tops🛸

[@kenmcnaughton5882]

I would rather believe Colonel Corso's version of the wreckage

[@saxophone.4513]

5.36 I don't recall Marcel ever saying he picked up Balsa Wood.

[@tplyons5459]

General Ramey was based at Ft Worth Army Air Field now known as Carswell AFB

[@lifefunseekertoday154]

Hey Code 9 !! You are correct sir! This man applies "journalistic slant", revealing that he is a de-bunker. (He 'must' remain so, otherwise may lose his tenure, pension, reputation, wife, friends, etc) Unfortunately, we still live in an era where 'believing' gets you mocked.

[@yardsalestanleyplayers24]

Mobile Operated General Utility Locomotive is 25 foot kitchen wisk + microphone inside

[@greg1707]

X is an unknown quantity and a pert is a drip a self proclaimed expert is the best example of this.

[@Dra741]

I'm glad Stanton Friedman gave us ammunition to use against the nasty negatives

[@37rainman]

Well, Stanton cave us an interesting compelling fantasy for the gullible sucker among us.........

[@waltersobchak7275]

@@37rainman learn to communicate correctly you naysaying prick

[@beverlyjordan8957]

Heard this all before. It’s not worth wasting your time on.

[@somebb]

So the initial statement from the military "capturing a flying saucer" didn't need a revisit?

[@zillsburyy1]

watch the steve greer & richard doughty interview !!!!!!

[@andromedaone3640]

What about what the villagers seen ?

[@terrykikendahl2092]

Gee. Don't we get to see the graphics?

[@aujax1]

where’s the “saucer” part of the mogul balloon?

[@kabbey30]

Never trust a guy who wears a turtleneck.

[@vail8150]

So please explain “ we recovered a disk”?

[@jimneely861]

Complete BS...

[@Dra741]

A expert on what????

[@russellarnott580]

But what happened after Roswell RJA Impact

[@greg1707]

Im on the fence with this alien stuff, it fascinates me. I like hearing the arguments from both sides but this isn't argument and it was about as interesting as watching paint dry.

[@billybatson8657]

Do a search for Kelly Johnson UFO if you want someone to know whether or not this is true. His Project Bluebook file is what convinced me this is real.

[@greg1707]

@@billybatson8657 thanks Bill, reading it now, interesting stuff

[@greg1707]

@@billybatson8657 the David Fravar incident is what sparked my interest and im puzzled as to why there has not been more investigation into it, regardless if its et or not it demands proper investigation

[@jerrydrudge9989]

In the early 60's an English teacher I had in college told her entire class about a book, she and her husband had found in Canada that had been banned in the US, that told about the UFO crash in NM. Her husband was the head of the English department and they both wrote for National Geographic, although that doesn't make the story true, but the story was still alive before the 70's.

[@kiriyamathelama1809]

What was the book?

[@kzmaven7478]

When you actually have an "expert" to talk about Roswell, I'll be all ears. This guy is a complete ignoramus. Try reading the book "Witness to Roswell" v2 to gain some of the actual backstory before you start spewing nonsense. What did Mark Twain say, something on the order of "Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt". Quite fitting here.

[@rawimkhni_6288]

Okay mister thank you for that I just wanna ask you to make an episode talking about area 51

[@Ralph_Smith0724]

*It is mathematically and logically impossible that all of the witnesses are lying.*

[@rinsedpie]

Why did he say that Roswell had 2 nespapers and had a tone of ridicule to go with it?

[@robertbower7461]

“Ask a total muppet who has no facts” more like 🤣

[@rogerfroud300]

It's interesting that he says that one incident 'kicked off' other sightings. In what way does that make sense? Either you see something or you don't! Yeah, we all know the official line that you're repeating. I guess you haven't watched the interview of the Press Officer or the other witnesses. Those people seem about as sound as anyone you can imagine. The equipment in Project Mogul simply don't match the descriptions of the parts described by the witnesses. You're way too quick to swallow the official line which makes no sense in relation to the witness reports.

[@zachs2222]

By the way, never seen a video get 50% plus thumbs down. Lol that says it all.

[@tombraun6514]

Col. Corso published "The Day After Rosewell" in 1997, I believe, fifty years after the Roswell incident, to explain his large role in keeping the fiiber optic cables, the nano-scale integrated circuits and other alien technology in a particular file cabinet in his Pentagon office, where he operated what was referred to as the "foreign technology assessment department," or some such title, keeping track of Soviet and other technology as well, simply including the alien technology as a more secret component of his responsibilities. The military and president were so alarmed at public reaction to the "War of the Worlds' radio broadcast by Orson Wells, that they agreed to create a cover story and clamped down on the Roswell population as if revealing the truth would undermine national security. Not a very fair way to handle things, but they were actually concerned about aliens invading, using technology quite advanced from that available to humans.

[@spoofer9113]

so "War of the World's" was set by military too? to test people. I believe they might have contacted Orson for this

[@AOXOMOXO]

That book by Corso is such a crock of BS. Glad I bought the first pressing with a forward by Senator Strom Thurmond because once Thurmond found out what this book was about he demanded the forward be removed from all future pressings. Might have a rare version of the book now. The book was supposed to be a memoir about serving in the US Army which while commendable apparently wasn't exciting enough to the publisher, so they took what was a to be a small passing mention of Rosswell in the original draft and turned it into 99.9 5 % of the book and take a ride on the UFO gravy train. UFO advocate William Birnes ....listed as a coauthor...need I say more? Want a real review of this book...go to pg. 203 in Karl F. Pflocks "Roswell Inconvenient Facts". There must be two pages of references to military events, persons and aircraft Corso gets absolutely wrong...and this guy was military intelligence ? Highly recommended...if you are a sci fi fan.

[@csansolo]

This book is fake though. Try Don Schmitt books on Roswell, they are more accurate. Even Kev Randle's books. Cheers.

[@rodbutler8069]

Col Corso was military liaison to Sen Storm Thurman's intel committee and was well briefed on the Roswell crash. Thurman did not want his committee mentioned in the book because he guarded this and other secrets that could not be shared and would not answer questions from the press about.

[@SIRGALAHADful]

This man needs to go back to schools his talk is so simplistic, he thinks, we are 8yrs old!!!

[@ronnienaron8389]

That’s Mac Brazzle, not Brazil. Are you sure this is your first day on the job youngster

[@ceciliaolivieri5395]

There is just one thing that we know about Roswell: There was a show in 1999 with that name. This is all fake... "three Aliens in a weather ballon", seriously? 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@billcarpenter6057]

Tell this to Gerald Anderson.

[@natturner1244]

Well from reading a few comments, I see there’s no need to waste my time with this.

[@user-en4wb9pz8f]

Rosswell what?

[@danielpinnington1785]

Amen. Thanks to Ahnsahnghong x

[@kabbey30]

So, the 8th of July comes after the 4th of July, and the 10th of July comes right after the 9th of July...I'm seeing a pattern here.

[@Dra741]

He's as fledgling as Nick Romney was when he ran for president and he kind of looks like him, but one thing about Nick he could sell me a car this guy can't

[@onlyplayaseattacoswiththei9433]

I think you mean "MICK ROMNEY"....but ppl are supposed to believe you have the facts right?😂

[@LAkadian]

No no no! It's *"Mist Romney".

[@4Mr.Crowley2]

MITT ROMNEY dingdongs!