Post by Joanna on May 10, 2015 12:19:58 GMT -5
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Old Photos of Roswell Extraterrestrials Found in Attic
It's the conspiracy theory that just won't go away: that the US government is, deep in some secret location, keeping the bodies of alien astronauts recovered from a 1947 crash of a flying saucer in New Mexico. The "Roswell Incident," named for the small town close to where some wreckage was found – a weather balloon, the U.S. military says; a UFO, say others – was back in the news this week when two photographs, claimed to be of preserved alien remains, were presented at a UFO conference in Mexico City. The photos, taken on Kodachrome color slide film, have been confirmed as being on film stock from the late 1940s – but that doesn't mean the alien claim is true, experts say. What is much more likely, they say, is that the photo is, in fact, a 1940s image of a human child's mummified body.
As evidence the alien claim is either a publicity stunt – a documentary film, Roswell Slides, is in production – or a hoax, scientists noted that attendees at the Mexico City conference who wanted to view the color slides had to cough up $350 for the privilege.
The skeleton in the photos does have a large head in relation to the rest of the body, but that's a characteristic of any child's body, experts say. Mummified children's bodies have been mistaken for aliens before, but even those with strange, deformed skulls have a simple explanation.
Still, many UFO adherents are standing by the claims made in Mexico City. "[These photos] show the human race, beyond any doubt, that extraterrestrial visits are a reality," said Jaime Maussan, a Mexican UFO researcher who hosted the conference. "That is why the presentation of two slides, two transparencies, where a being with nonhuman features can be seen, is very important."
Despite years of research by the US Air Force and other agencies that have found no evidence of aliens – or UFOs – many still hold to their conviction that the government is covering up the existence of a flying saucer or its occupants – or both – in a secret hangar somewhere.
The newly released photos are unlikely to change anyone's mind one way or the other, of course. That's just the nature of conspiracies. They're hard to prove; the problem is they're also hard to disprove.
The photos were said to have been taken by geologist Bernard Ray between 1947 and 1949, and the images were found inside a box that also contained images of Bing Crosby, Clarke Gable and Dwight Eisenhower before his term as president. The box was located in the attic of a house in Sedona, Arizona, and a team of UFO specialists says they are authentic.
Source: Jim Algar, Tech Times, May 10, 2015.
