The government of the United States has long been under the radar for allegedly hiding something unknown related to the UFOs and aliens.

Now, the 1947 UFO crash, which took place in New Mexico and left the world shocked, has again resurfaced after recently leaked government texts revealed that there was more to it than what was known to the people.

The partially redacted communication was posted on social media and a top-ranking intelligence official was noted as saying that people would be “slack-jawed” to know the complete truth.

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    3 months ago

    From the article:

    “## How did the UFO crash in 1947 left onlookers puzzled?

    The story of the 1953 crash has been retold umpteen times by the locals of the area.”

    So which is it? A 1947 crash or a 1953 crash?

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    Is this news? We know Roswell has more to it than we were told - I’m the biggest skeptic you’re likely to find and even I will happily admit there was something going on. Was it a UAP? No, undoubtedly it was some experimental BS. But the government has been pretty open about it being a coverup nontheless. It’s just an incident we’re never likely to find out the truth of, because at this point anything they say, even a full confession that it was in fact aliens, will be viewed as lies furthering the coverup and yet cause an absolute media firestorm they’ll have to deal with.

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      What did we have in 1947 that could travel 1200 mph. First it was weather balloons then it was radar targets now what is it going to be with that kind of speed.

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        … Lots of things? Setting aside the tedious nitpicking of the veracity of the 1200 mph claim (which has been done to death and proves little either way), every country in WWII had rockets that could go much faster than that, even greece was experimenting with them. A particular example of a craft that we know was in new mexico at the time of the Roswell crash was the Me 163 Komet, a plane we do not like talking about since it’s pretty conclusive that the Nazis broke the sound barrier in one several years before Yeager and the X-1. The fact that the Nazi’s had already broken the sound barrier back in WWII was certainly something the US government would want to keep secret in 1947.

        (Interestingly, Yeager broke the sound barrier in the same year as the Roswell crash - it’s probably not directly related or anything, just kinda amusing)

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          Great, now I gotta find a way to work the phrase “extra chunky Nazi sauce” into a sentence this week.

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          The sound barrier isn’t anywhere close to 1200. The best they had at the time were unmanned unguided rockets. Nothing that would have been mistakes for balloons or radar targets or that looked anything like the supposed wreckage displayed.

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            Sorry, I should have been more clear; the Me 163 was capable of 1200 mph (I think the highest recorded speed was 1300mph, but the pilot spectacularly didn’t survive) and we don’t talk about it because it was used by the Nazis to break the sound barrier.

            And I am sorry to say, but you’re just incorrect about the technology at the time.

            In 1947 the Soviet Union launched its first V-2 assembled from German parts.

            To think that the US, who acquired far more of the scientists from the Nazi rocket program than the soviet union, was behind them at this point in time is pretty goofy.

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              FWIW, Artemis targets would explain both the 1200mph fast moving object and why the wreckage had balloon-like debris, though the claims of balloon-like debris are pretty dubious from what I understand. Additionally it would have been incredibly sensitive information at the time (and probably still is, I mean we still use the U2 because it’s almost impossible to shoot the damn things down), absolutely justifying the X-Files-esque coverup that has been reported (again, pretty dubiously) as happening after the incident.

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        Frank Sinatra trying to get a line in before Ava Gardner arrived at Humphrey Bogart’s house and snorted the rest?