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Can we talk about how a six-person witness account changed my view on Roswell?
I always wrote off the Roswell crash as a weather balloon story until I sat down with two retired Air Force guys in a diner outside Alamogordo who both had dads at the scene in 47. They described seeing metallic foil that snapped back to shape when crumpled, which doesnt sound like any balloon Ive heard of. Has anyone else stumbled across a detail that flipped their whole opinion on a case?
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logan6581mo ago
Wait, so wrinkled foil that pops back into shape is somehow less weird than a flying saucer? That just sounds like balled-up tinfoil with a good memory to me...
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drewr151mo ago
Wait, are we really comparing a crumpled snack wrapper to an actual spaceship design? If you ball up foil and it springs back, that's just physics, not some high-tech engineering breakthrough. A saucer that flies and avoids radar is a whole different level of weird than recycled tinfoil.
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martin.riley1mo ago
The thing with nitinol shape memory alloy is that it wasn't developed until the 1960s, so whatever those Air Force guys saw in 1947 wasn't just "good memory tinfoil." That detail alone made me rethink the whole balloon explanation.
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