Persuasive Essay

English 101C (50)

Prof. Walsh

6/25/2008

Persuasive/Argument Essay

Abdul Borders

An unknown glowing object soars through the air resembling a shooting star viewed by countless civilians during the stormy night of July 1947. Unable to sustain altitude, this strange saucer-shaped craft crashed near a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. William “Mac” Brazel, owner of the ranch, discovered debris from the spacecraft which is some 70 miles north of Roswell. Brazel tells the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw a “large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks”. Later Brazel and his family retrieved the rest of the wreckage. Finding out about “flying discs”, Brazel wondered if what he found came from a “flying disc”. He decided to hide the wreckage under a brush and the next day he saw Sheriff Wilcox and told him rather confidentially that he found a “flying disc”.

After Brazel told Sheriff Wilcox, Wilcox called the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) and Major Jesse Marcel and “a man in plainclothes” accompanied Brazel to the ranch to look for more debris. Marcel though it was a weather device at first since there was rubber and tinfoil, typical weather device material, but when he and Brazel tried to reassemble the pieces they could not. The next morning Marcel delivered the debris to the RAAF’s headquarters and the debris was said to be from a weather balloon since the entire parts matched the general description of a weather balloon. Now, many say that the parts that Marcel found on the ranch were weather balloon parts, but they were placed there as a cover up for the real UFO parts. Marcel claimed to have posed next to the real parts and that another group of people posed with the weather balloon parts.

It has been mentioned in the book UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt that the real UFO crash recovery not only contained real unexplainable parts, but they were supposedly bodies at the crash site. The government partake in lying to us for unknown reasons and a cover up is possible, and for the government to be so quick about saying it’s a weather balloon and pretty much saying that everything people saw when it crashed wasn’t really there is absurd.

On December 9, 1965, a large, brilliant fireball was seen by people in at least six states including Ontario, Canada. It flew over Detroit, Michigan/Windsor, Ontario and later crashed in Kecksburg, Pennsylvania. Many reporters claimed it was a meteor. But citizens of Kecksburg reported seeing an acorn-shaped craft which was about the size of a Volkswagen Beetle with writing resembling Egyptian hieroglyphics in a band around the base of the object. Military personnel were soon present, notably the Army, which secured the area, ordered civilians out, and then removed the object on a flatbed truck. Immediately after, the military claimed they’d found “absolutely nothing” in the woods. Speculation ranged from the object being a mid-sized meteor, or an alien craft, to an unmanned Soviet Venera 4 atmospheric probe. But at the time of the crash, the Kecksburg Fire Hall crew went to the crash site to investigate. One of the firemen from the crew, codenamed вЂ?John’, said "It was definitely, unequivocally, positively, absolutely no aircraft, plane, helicopter or rocket, at least not to my knowledge. It was in an area that was part field and part woods and we went down to investigate". John claimed that the object lacked any doors or windows and it was one solid piece. In the search, no bodies were recovered and the craft was shaped like an acorn lying on its side.

Moments later, the military arrived at the site, forced the firemen away from the site, and quarantined the area. The military controlled the entire area with armed guards blocking any area of entry, making sure no one could enter or leave. They also brought plenty of equipment, radios and such, and later a flatbed truck as well as a crane was brought to pick up the object. It was covered by a tarp on the truck and hurriedly driven away. Later, the object was said to be a meteorite. John doesn’t buy that explanation. He said there was writing on the space craft resembling ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics on a band about 6-10 inches wide and it stood out, elliptical the whole way around.

Later, it was denied that the object was a meteorite and the military denied ever being there. Stan Gordon, investigator, revealed that one of the military groups involved was most likely the 662nd Radar Squadron based at the Oakdale Armory, located near Greater Pittsburgh International Airport. The squadron was under the control of the Aerospace Defense Command which tried to obtain information on the Kecksburg crash, through the Freedom of Information Act. The information recovered was not enough prove of a crash.

Through research, Gordon knows the Air Force was still investigating UFO cases at the public level