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He gathered some of this and took it to the local Sheriff at Roswell. This prompted the Sherriff to report it immediately to the USAFF base at Roswell; which alerted agents to visit the ranch, followed shortly by the press.
The RAAF (The Roswell Army Air Field) issued a press release that a “flying disk” had crashed on the ranch after a storm. This alerted government scientists to arrive in the area, who quickly told the press the debris was that of a crashed weather balloon. The Roswell Daily Record corrected their story and included the RAAF’s report that the crash was a weather balloon.
CONSPIRACY THEORIES
Official documents read that the weather balloon had infact come from experimental technology trialing named “Project Mogul”. Project Mogul was ran to detect soundwaves in the upper atmosphere by USSR atom bomb tests by attaching microphones to a string of balloons at high altitudes. Although it was quickly replaced by better technology, it stayed a secret for almost 20 years after it occured. The fact that a balloon was used for Cold War espionage fueled further rumours that it was a cover-up, and indeed could have been an alien ship.