Area 51 and the Roswell Crash

I wanted my project to be based around the UFO crash conspiracy in Roswell and what happened in Area 51. I had been reading through different accounts of people who had claimed to work there, watched films and documentaries about it and did a lot of research into the real details that have been released. I gathered lots of different information on this subject.

The story of the Roswell crash is often disputed. UFO enthusiasts often claim that the US government have been hiding the existence of aliens for years and that the Roswell crash is a huge cover up. The information given out by the government in response to the interest of conspiracy theorists at this point has been pretty minimal, although they have before suggested that it is in fact a testing ground for different government projects such as aircrafts. It was argued that it was in fact one of their own creations involved in the Roswell crash (a weather blimp). However it is a fact that the activity that goes on there is in fact so secretive that even the President himself does not have high enough security clearance to access it. This has left a lot to the imagination in terms of what the government do not want the public finding out.

There have been many accounts in the years since the crash in 1947, with different people claiming to have worked for the government at the time and been present during the aftermath of the crash, in which they claim a surviving alien from that craft was taken to Area 51, interrogated and dissected.

The Deputy Sheriff of Roswell at the time claims that he saw a "100ft flying saucer" and "four dead aliens" at the crash site. Charles H Forgus was one of many people to claim that they say the aircraft and the dead alien bodies.

Of those that have claimed to have seen the aliens themselves, the descriptions are all pretty similar. For example, Grady L. Barnett, who was a civil engineer, claimed that "their heads were round, eyes were small and they had no hair. The eyes were oddly spaced. They were quite small by our standards." He also claimed that their head were not in proportion to the rest of their bodies as the heads were big.

Richard C. Doty, a former special agent in the US Air Force, claimed that he saw these aliens. He claims that there were three or four of them, all around four feet tall with grey skin, big head and eye, as well as no ears and an indent for a nose. There are various former members of the US Government that have backed up these claims.

One of the most interesting things about this story is the fact that the military actually announced in a press conference that they had found a UFO before retracting the statement the next day, which definitely asks the question about whether they were mistaken or whether they were made to change the statement by someone higher up. Radio stations were also told to cease transmissions about the crash on the day it happened.

I felt that the Area 51 idea was a better idea than my original one as it was a more creative way to display my work. I think the big reason I changed my mind from my original idea was due to the fact that I’ve had a massive personal interest in the Area 51 crash since I was very young, and have come across sites similar to the one I wanted to create containing information, personal accounts, photographs and possible theories as to what happened.