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16 augustus 2013 16:22 |
Een U2 -nu nog- vergelijken met een "vliegende schotel of Flying Disk", hilarisch.
First flight 1 August 1955
Die U2 van 1947 wil ik toch eens zien (mss een link ? via http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockhee...tional_history )
IK geloof het eerste persbericht van het leger dat toen uitgebracht werd, en één dag later weer ingetrokken werd.
Citaat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Haut
1st Lt. Walter Haut (June 2, 1922 – December 15, 2005) was the public information officer (PIO) at the 509th Bomb Group based in Roswell, New Mexico during 1947. Early on July 8, 1947 he was ordered by the base commander, Colonel William Blanchard, to draft a press release to the public, announcing that the United States Army Air Forces had recovered a crashed "flying disc" from a nearby ranch. The press release garnered widespread national and even international media attention. The U.S. Army Air Force retracted the claim later the same day, saying instead that a weather balloon had been recovered. Haut also received some criticism and ridicule in the nation's press for putting out the original press release. The series of events eventually became known as the Roswell UFO Incident.
When interviewed about the incident decades later, he claimed only a minor role, but he expressed his belief that there was "no chance" senior officers who handled the recovered material, including base commander Blanchard, mistook a weather balloon for a flying saucer.
He later claimed greater involvement, including seeing alien corpses and a craft at a base hangar and handling the strange crash debris.
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Citaat:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H._Blanchard
On July 8, 1947, Colonel Blanchard issued an official Army Air Force press release stating that the base intelligence office had recovered a so-called "flying disc" or "flying saucer" from a nearby ranch, it had been found "sometime last week," and they were flying it to "higher headquarters". The press release and the media feeding frenzy that followed it triggered the so-called Roswell UFO Incident. Higher headquarters turned out to be Brigadier General Roger Ramey, head of the Eighth Army Air Force in Fort Worth, Texas, who quickly pronounced it a misidentified weather balloon. Ironically, Blanchard's press release and the Roswell Incident it triggered are perhaps what Blanchard became best known for by the public at large decades later when the event was reopened and investigated, with many books written. (see also Walter Haut, Blanchard's public information officer, who put out the press release)
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De mainstream-media: :-)
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