The Roswell Cover Story: How Government Engineering Prolonged the UFO Narrative for Three Decades

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Roswell endures as a persistent UFO myth because the government deliberately kept a weather-balloon cover story for decades, while later investigations, regulatory actions, and cultural narratives—shaped by Nathan Twining, Gen. Ramey, Jesse Marcel Sr., Stanton Friedman, and Betty and Barney Hill—kept the story alive.

The Long Silence
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The Long Silence

For 30 years after the 1947 incident, the weather balloon explanation held. Not because it was convincing, but because the government built something to make it hold.