不明飞行物坠毁的故事
故事开始在1940年代末流通。他们太神奇,即使是那些愿意认真考虑外星探视报以怀疑的可能性。
事实上,不超过几周后肯尼斯·阿诺德的目击又迎来了不明飞行物年龄、首次达到新闻的故事。1947年7月8日下午,新墨西哥州,罗斯威尔日报记录,震惊全国的报告日冕附近一个飞碟坠毁,林肯郡,西北罗斯威尔,复苏的残骸由一方从当地军队空军基地。很快,然而,18新利最新登入空军向记者保证,这都是一个愚蠢的错误:材料从倒下的气球。
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虽然这个特定的事件很快就被人们遗忘了,恢复碟子的谣言,此外,他们的尸体外星人居住者,成为流行文化的主要反对游戏。1949年各种专栏作家弗兰克史高丽写道,“政府科学家”和德州石油大亨告诉他三个西南部崩溃。第二年史高丽扩大这些声明成一个长篇,畅销书,背后的飞碟,声称这些车辆的乘客,金星人穿着刷子的“1890年的风格。”But two years later True magazine revealed in a scathing exposé that Scully's sources were two veteran confidence men, Silas Newton and Leo GeBauer. Newton and GeBauer were posing respectively as an oilman and a magnetics scientist in an attempt to set up a swindle involving oil-detection devices tied to extraterrestrial technology.
严重的不明飞行物研究家也包括那些怀疑,政府没有告诉一切知道不明飞行物,崩溃的故事牵强的纱线的泡菜坛子“小男人”。A person with such a story got a chilly reception when he or she passed it on to anyone but fringe ufologists. In 1952 Ed J. Sullivan of the Los Angeles-based Civilian Saucer Investigators wrote that such tales "are damned for the simple reason, that after years of circulation, not one soul has come forward with a single concrete fact to support the assertions. . . . We ask you to beware of the man who tells you that his friend knows the man with the pickle jar. There is good reason why he effects [sic] such an air of mystery, why he has been 'sworn to secrecy' -- because he can't produce the friend -- or the pickle jar."