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What really happened at Roswell? Your reaction

Here is the BBC's respondents' opinions


 

Now more than ever the public's fascination with UFO's, the unexplained and other phenomena is rife, like an epidemic. Programmes such as the X-Files are more than partly responsible for the current interest and while many people pass it off as harmless fun, it does seem to indicate a general decline in the intelligence of the population. When there are more fabulous and bizarre hypotheses in modern physics than can ever be conjured with in an episode of X-Files, it seems strange for the public to romanticise with what is ostensibly the 20th century's cultural equivalent of witchcraft.
Greg Turner, UK

I sincerely believe that Roswell really happened. There are aliens who crashed to the site, and the government is hiding it from the world due to fear. But this is not really the matter of the story behind aliens and those kind of stuff. I believe that something deeper is still going on in our relations with them. There are some factions of human beings who are actually in cahoots with them.
Anthonio Catubay, Philippines

If "they" can get here, they are obviously very clever. Why then have we not established proper contact with them through all the efforts which are underway around the world? Surely the most likely explanation is that there was a serious accident involving a secret plane or weapon, and the US Government simply did not want anyone to know.
Dave Kelly, Azerbaijan

Yeah I believe 100% that something very suspicious crashed in Roswell. All the evidence is not conclusive with the US government's "official" statements.. IF aliens/UFO's are hoaxes, then how come so many people believe in them and swear they have seen them?
Abigail Cooles, West Indies

 

 

My wife's father was a colonel in the 509th bomber group at Roswell after WWII. There was not only a press release about the alien UFO issued by the Air Force, there was an alien craft recovered. Government lies will not change the facts.
John Wurts, USA

Now, isn't it amazing how many of the UFO "landings"/sightings are concentrated in the USA? Even though it's only a fraction of the total earth's area? And isn't it interesting how many people have a vested interest ("academic" careers, tourist trade etc) in keeping the pot boiling (just like the JFK saga)? I wonder would the almighty $ have something to do with all this?
C. Magee, USA

To tell you the truth, the more I read about the Roswell incident the more I think that there is something out there. I just can't believe that we are the only living thing in the universe. It has been proven that there was once life on mars, so there must be life somewhere else as well. Maybe I've been watching the X-Files and Star Trek for too long, but still, there must be something somewhere.
Anntoinette Weaver, Netherlands

As a sceptic and an engineer I saw a so-called flying saucer several years ago. In December 1991 I was walking with two friends at night along a beach in India. I made a comment about the full moon because it helped us see where we were walking. We walked on for a minute or so then one of my friends said "But wasn't there a full moon just two weeks ago?". We all then stopped and looked up. Suddenly the moon moved very quickly across the sky in a perfect horizontal line, paused, then shot up towards space. We live in a technology driven world where anything is possible. Roswell is possible.
Phillip Cresswell, Netherlands

In 1961 I was in Canada on vacation and was taken on board a flying saucer. I was aboard the flying saucer while it was in combat. I am certain that the Roswell incident is genuine. The flying saucers come from an intergalactic empire. They can travel at the velocity of light and go through hyperspacial transit to any place in the universe.
Paul Brown, Miami, Florida

 

The Roswell incident is just another case where resonable explanations are ignored for the want of the wish that we have had vistitors. And please don't mention the autopsey video - Dr Who had better effects than that.
Stuart Bushell, UK

As far as the Roswell mystery goes I certainly wouldn't put it past the American military to commit such a cover up. I certainly think that something other than a weather balloon crashed at Roswell. But on the other hand could this have been some experiment that went horribly wrong.
Kenneth James Gilmour, Queensland, Australia

I believe something definitely crashed there which was not a weather balloon, and which had abnormal occupants. Whether these occpants were extra-terrestrials or not is the key for me. I used to definitely believe they were, but these days I'm not so sure they weren't some kind of genetic experiment by the US. On the other hand though, it's funny how most of the stories/explanations seem on one level to fit nicely into established frameworks of folklore and belief systems. To me this suggests whatever it is that's really going on is being distorted to fit some place in modern folklore.
Ewen Cameron, Scotland

I've just read through the other 'reactions so far' on the subject of Roswell and would like to make a couple of comments. These sightings don't just happen in the USA. I'm interested in the subject of UFOs and have read reports from England, Australia, the USA and numerous other places! Also, to the people berating the BBC for including this item, I feel it is valid news. Even if UFOs don't exist, this is worthy of mention. I myself believe that there must be 'extra terrestrial' life. Whether they've ever visited us, I wouldn't like to say, as I've never seen or spoken face to face with someone who's seen a UFO.
Richard Clinker, UK