military balloon developed to spy on the Soviet nuclear program crashed in the desert near Roswell, N.M. The military gave only incomplete accounts of what happened, sowing decades of conspiracy theories (and a tourism industry) that built up around Roswell as the site of an alien crash landing. Since then, Americans’ passion for alien visitation has proved tough to shake, even when the evidence is clear that no spaceships have touched down or crash landed. After the Cold War, a pair of Air Force reports that aimed to come clean about the experiments near Roswell did little to debunk any belief in the potential for aliens. The government’s latest report on U.F.O.s, which the Pentagon now wants to call unidentified aerial phenomena, is unlikely to settle anything. Due out on Friday, the report’s expected assertion that no classified American programs exist to explain the observations will most likely be dismissed by those primed to disbelieve government pronouncements. first made public a batch of documents about U.F.O.s in the late 1970s, the press suggested. Its failure to find affirmative evidence of alien spaceships will largely be ignored by those most passionate about theories of extraterrestrial visitation.įrom soon after its creation, the C.I.A. Robarge said, is to release information as objectively as it can, including both successes and failures. has been worried about the American public’s vulnerability to Russian disinformation. documents also show concern about the public’s obsession with aliens in the 1950s.
If the Soviets were to attack, the agency worried, it might be mistaken for an alien visitation, causing the public not to take shelter but to flood local authorities with false reports. The United States was also concerned that the K.G.B. enthusiast groups that were pestering the American government for details about military capabilities and secret programs. “None of that ever panned out there is absolutely no evidence that any of these U.F.O. groups were stalking horses for the K.G.B.,” Dr. Those Cold War anxieties, featuring both the possibility of planetary destruction and the threat of Russian disinformation, have echoes in the current day. The fuzzy Navy videos of recent years that show some unexplained phenomena resonated with the public much as reports of sightings 50 years earlier. first made public a batch of documents about U.F.O.s in the late 1970s, the press suggested that the government was continuing the cover-up. Robarge said, is to release information as objectively as it can, including both successes and failures.
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