July 1947

Greetings Dear Reader!

The thought of super-intelligent extraterrestrial beings living on other planets of distant galaxies getting into their flying saucers and visiting our planet is very thrilling. In actual fact, neither aliens nor the flying saucers have really been seen in any part of the world. And those who claim to have seen them are challenged by the scientists for having to present a strong evidence.

There is a place called 'International UFO Museum and Research Center' in the city of Roswell, New Mexico, USA, where one can find everything and almost anything related to aliens and their flying saucers. The thousands of items on display in the Roswell museum include flying saucers, statues of aliens, pieces of space rocks and photographs of people who actually claim to have seen the flying saucer (UFO) 50 years ago. Besides, the museum includes books, video films, magazines and newspaper reports about the sighting of UFO.

International UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, New Mexico, USA

Inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center

Inside the International UFO Museum and Research Center

Every year more than 1,50,000 tourists visit the Roswell UFO museum. Their idea is twofold: To see the exhibits of the museum and to know about the mysterious incident of UFO landing near the city of Roswell in July 1947. Whether or not the UFO carrying aliens on board really landed in Roswell is still a mystery; and is not solved till date.

You may want to know what exactly happened in July 1947. So here's a full account-

May, 1947. Rumours about UFOs had created a havoc in the USA. During the first four weeks of May 1947, the American government had received a total of 800 such reports. Debates and opinions started spreading among the citizens along with panic and fear, as some people believed that the highly intelligent aliens might visit the Earth to plan an attack over the planet.

Scientists kept assuring the American citizens that considering the colossal distance between the Sun and the others stars, even if some aliens residing on a distant planet should travel for their whole lives, they would not be able to reach Earth. Even if their sophisticated UFOs travel at immense speed, it would take hundreds of thousands of years to reach our planet. 

It is said that on July 1, 1947, strange things started happening successively in Roswell. There was an Army Field radar center at 150 km south-west of Roswell, from where the radar operator Frank Kaufmann saw few big dots on the radar dial and was surprised because the dots did not resemble those of an aircraft. He immediately summoned  his seniors who suggested him to continue observing the radar dial and send a message as soon as he spotted something strange. 

At midnight on July 3, 1947, Kaufmann really got to see a strange sight on the radar screen. The whole screen was illuminated by a blindingly bright light. A few hours later, all the telephones at Roswell Army Air Field started ringing simultaneously. Residents of Roswell were calling to ask the same question to the airport officials: "Has one of your aircraft crashed?" The reason was-there was an ear-splitting explosion on the outskirts of Roswell which was heard by the residents. Soon after, bursts of extremely bright light were seen on the horizon. The residents thought that one of the military aircraft might have crashed, but it was not so.

The news reports about the UFO crash appeared on July 4, 1947 in the local newspaper

When the Army Air Force personnel rushed to the place where the accident took place, they found a lot of debris scattered all over the place. If none of the fighter jacks had crashed, what were these pieces of? A UFO?

A number of villagers including residents of Roswell arrived there in hordes and picked up many of the pieces lying around. Usually, aluminium or titanium was used in aircraft but these pieces were much heavier than those two metals.

The American government always maintained a secretive attitude about the happenings at Roswell after this mysterious incident. As an explanation, they said that a high-altitude weather balloon sent into space by the meteorological department had crashed in Roswell. Firstly, there cannot be an explosion if a balloon crashes and secondly, it does not justify the great glares of fire that lit up the horizon of Roswell for quite some time. 

For 50 long years the American government kept the Roswell incident under wraps. They even burnt away all the confidential reports related to this strange occurrence. However, if weird and mysterious happenings are not explained, people are more interested in knowing about them rather than forgetting it. The International UFO Museum and Research Center has been set up to host models of brainy extraterrestrial creatures, pictures of flying saucers and of the place where the UFO is claimed to have crashed.

The discussion about whether or not the aliens exist is a never-ending one. This brings us to the end of today's post. I would like to thank you, dear reader, for showing your love and appreciation towards this blog. It's been almost 3 weeks and the post 'Beware Dear Reader!' is ranked as the most viewed post. Therefore to thank you all for loving it and on the request of the readers, I'll be back with a new horror post based on a cult practiced in the Caribbean and the Southern US called the 'Voodoo'. Bye!

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