greed that this object looked like the objects that he had seen after the crash (Broussard 1). Roswell is the most known UFO contact site and date known around the world although many UFO’s have been reported throughout the 20th century. In 1948, Thomas Mantell, a pilot for the National Guard was ordered to pursue a UFO. He chased it in his F51 mustang, but he went to high and ran out of oxygen. He went unconscious and the plane crashed, killing him instantly. This was the first documented death due to a UFO (Reaban 2). In 1952 a wave a UFO’s flew over Washington D.C. and appeared visually on the radar. The government denied this and claimed the radar was malfunctioning because of a temperature inversion (Reaban 2). Although many different UFO stories are told everyday, the factor of the bodies makes Roswell stand out. Upon the final impact of the craft at Roswell coming to a rest, the bodies of the crew were thrown out of the craft and left to die in the wreckage. A first-hand witnesses to the bodies, Mr. Gerald Anderson said “they didn’t have a little finger” and “his eyes was open, staring blankly.” The aliens had “no visible ears…just a rise there and then a hole, they were all wearing one piece suits…a shiny silverish gray color (McAndrew 70).” Although it is probable that extraterrestrial bodies have come to earth and been recovered by authorities, this is one of the only instances where so many witnesses have come forward and claimed to have seen the beings. The government explains the extraterrestrials by saying that they were really only parachute test dummies. The Pentagon says that witnesses were mistaken about the crash and that the dummies were actually from a project “Mogul” which was launched to monitor the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet Nuclear tests. Air Force Col. John Hayes said “I have no other explanation for how recollections of ...
