From: schmitz@nas.nasa.gov
04/08/95
The Weekend Sun
Vancouver, British Columbia
The British UFO Research Association announced last week that a U.S. government film had come into its possession which shows evidence of the existence of alien life forms.
According to the association - which will show the film at a conference in Sheffield in August - the footage shows U.S. military scientists examining the corpse of an extra-terrestrial whose spacecraft crashed near the New Mexico town of Roswell in 1947.
The newly-publicized Roswell incident, which has been attributed to rocket-testing and a crashed weather balloon as well as aliens, occurred when interest in 'flying saucers' was growing in the United States. (the term UFO was introduced by the U.S. Air Force in 1953.) During the Second World War, rocket technology had developed so fast that space travel appeared to be within the people's grasp.
Toward the end of the war, U.S. pilots and civilians had reported moving lights in the sky known as 'foo-fighters'. Although theses reports were probably caused by the atmospheric effects of battle damage, they continued after the war and some ufologist - people who study UFOs - attributed them to visits from aliens. This become known as the 'extra-terrestrial hypothesis' or ETH.
Usually they involved someone travelling late at night, seeing a bright light in the sky and ending up in a d ifferent place a few hours later. Over a period of time, sometimes under hypnosis, the "contactee" remembers the lost hours, which involved being taken into an alien spacecraft and having some kind ofmedical examination.
Doctors who have examined these people have no doubt that their trauma is genuine.
But their experiences are often explained as dreams or powerful flights of imagination. As with every encounter, no hard proof that they really happened has yet been provided.
Although the film from New Mexico may not convince the skeptics, it may persuade scientists to look more closely at the claims of ufologists.