mike3 <mike4ty4@yahoo.com> wrote:

""THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED FROM A BALLON [sic]
BY CABLE, WHICH BALLON [sic] WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET IN
DIAMETER. MAJOR CURTAN FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND RESEMBLES
A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR REFLECTOR, BUT THAT
TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT
[unintelligible] BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF."" -- FBI Telex, 1947

Could Roswell just have been a balloon crash?

Not only "could", it was.

Check out the descriptions of the debris from the so-called "Primary
Witnesses";  they all describe perfectly the shattered remains of a
radar reflector (RAWIN) and a neoprine balloon.  Of course, they added
some "alien" properties (that varied from teller to teller) to liven
things up, but the basic properties-- lightweight sticks, fabic-backed
foil, blackened rubber (neoprine)-- are consistant from witness to
witness, and match the images of the debris photographed in Fort
Worth.

hutch

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