Was there a coverup in Roswell? I want to believe that the Roswell crash occurred, but I don’t think it did. And here’s why.
A species capable of interstellar travel would likely have a very low probability of crashing with their technology.
Hence, their safeguards would be sufficiently advanced that such an event would be improbable.
Alien interstellar travel would probably not be by conventional means as we understand them (i.e., a high-speed rocket).
But it would instead likely be via some means of travel that we can only speculate on at this point.
Such as by warping space-time or traveling through a wormhole or something we haven’t even imagined yet.
Otherwise, travel between the stars would be a journey that would take several lifetimes to complete using conventional means.
However, a trip across interstellar distances via advanced technology like those mentioned would likely take very little time.
So in the highly unlikely event that a crash did occur, a rescue party could be on the scene in short order to take the wreckage and crew back to their home planet.
If a crash was even a remote possibility, a highly intelligent and advanced civilization would likely be prepared for such an event by sending multiple ships to any world they’re surveying, just in case a rescue might be necessary.
So the likelihood of an advanced alien civilization having the misfortune to crash on Earth and be stranded long enough to be captured/recovered by humans would logically be very low.
The book by Corso and Birnes, “The Day After Roswell,” claims that the explosion in technology in the U.S. (fiber optics, integrated circuits, etc.) following the Roswell incident was because the U.S. government handed over alien technology to American industry to reverse engineer.
The hypothesis of this book has been one of the columns of support for the Roswell crash story.
However, if this were true, the development of these technologies would have happened in a quantum leap instead of in the ways they really were developed, which was iterative.
Fiber optics require lasers, so if this book is correct, then those attempting to reverse engineer the crash wreckage would have discovered fiber optic cable and lasers.
But the laser didn’t appear suddenly out of anywhere; it started out as a maser (microwave amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) and wasn’t functional as a laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) until 1960, which was a full 13 years after the alleged Roswell incident.
And early optical lasers were devices that had a glass tube in them for electrically pumping the ionized gas they contained to initiate the lasing process.
More recently, diode-based lasers (like the kind used in laser pointers) were developed, which are smaller, lighter, more robust, and cheaper to manufacture.
So in our hypothetical Roswell crash, those attempting to reverse engineer the technology would likely have seen fiber optics and small diode lasers (not lasers built with bulky and delicate glass tubes), and the first lasers they built based on their reverse engineering would have been diode lasers, not gas lasers and certainly not the masers that actually preceded them.
So the idea that humans discovered lasers by reverse engineering a crashed alien spacecraft just doesn’t align with the actual history of the development of the laser.
And suppose that wasn’t enough to convince you that the book is not correct.
In that case, further reading of the book reveals that the authors claim that the purpose of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) of the 1980s (sometimes referred to as the “Star Wars” defense program) was actually not to defeat incoming ICBMs, but to prevent an imminent alien threat from space and that humans triumphed over such a planned invasion because of SDI.
If one were to believe this Roswell crash story, the aliens who crash-landed in Roswell in 1947 had no backup to rescue them and no weapons to defend themselves.
Then, according to this book, several decades later, they came back to destroy us.
That doesn’t make sense. They come in peace but come back to destroy? Not likely.
Further, the book alleges that the SDI thwarted such an alien attack.
A couple of the Los Alamos scientists who worked with Edward Teller on the Manhattan Project stated that the SDI program wasn’t feasible.
And there has been some speculation that the real reason for the (allegedly non-successful) program was to drive the Soviet Union (which was already having severe financial issues) into bankruptcy as they spent lots of money attempting to counter SDI or develop a similar system for their own defense.
But even if the SDI system was actually functional and was developed to thwart an alien attack, how likely would it be that we would be able to outmatch an advanced alien civilization in a showdown of military technology? Again, not likely.
And could the SDI system stop an alien attack that consisted of a different approach than the classic “War of the Worlds” type of attack?
Why wouldn’t brilliant aliens just unleash an extremely deadly virus on us and watch us die from a distance?
This narrative about SDI being a safeguard against alien invasion simply doesn’t add up.
Finally, aliens would have no reason to attack Earth.
Let’s review some of the most popular reasons given that aliens might attack Earth:
1) They want some resources we have (like water or radioactive elements or who knows what).
Our natural resource on Earth exists in unimaginable quantities elsewhere in our solar system.
And there are countless solar systems they could visit to get these resources without having to contend with angry monkeys who have nuclear weapons (us).
2) Because they want to eat us.
If they’re capable of interstellar travel, they’ve long since solved the “what’s for dinner” problem.
They can likely synthesize whatever they need for nutrition from raw materials they can obtain without having to fight off the aforementioned monkeys with anger management issues.
3) Because they’re just not very nice.
If they were like the Klingons of Star Trek lore, they’d have destroyed themselves long before they were capable of interstellar travel.
Aliens who are intelligent enough to get here would also be intelligent enough to realize that there’s nothing here that they can’t get elsewhere, and without having to fight us for it.
Not that they couldn’t beat us, but a conflict with us would likely involve our nuclear weapons, which would render the object of their adventure (our resources) radioactively contaminated and unusable.
So it would be pointless for them to attack.
But let’s return to the original idea; that aliens crash-landed on Earth.
An advanced alien civilization would not want their technology to fall into the hands of primitives like us, so they would avoid contact with us and certainly wouldn’t risk landing on the planet and probably wouldn’t even enter our atmosphere.
They’d observe us from a safe distance. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were observing us from nearby.
After all, we’ve reached a critical point in our technological development where we have the capability to destroy ourselves just as we’re reaching for the stars.
I’d guess this is a keyhole that every technologically advanced civilization either passes through or doesn’t. I hope we do.
With all of that said, it does seem like there was a government coverup of whatever did happen in Roswell.
That doesn’t necessarily mean it was a crashed alien spacecraft.
In May of 1945, something crash-landed in the woods near Lakeview, Oregon, and six people, including five children, who were trying to drag it out of the woods, was killed by it.
There was a government coverup of this event at the time as well.
Alien spacecraft? Nope. Japanese incendiary device attached to a high-altitude weather balloon.
One of 9,300 “Fire Balloons” the Japanese military released, hoping the winds would carry them to the west coast of the U.S. and set the Pacific Northwest on fire.
Approximately 300 of them did make it here, and only one caused any casualties (the one I mentioned above).
The U.S. government wanted all of this kept out of the press so that the Japanese military wouldn’t get word that even one of the explosive balloons that they launched was successful in reaching the U.S.
How can an advanced species travel to Earth and then crash?
Assuming people reading this are well versed with the Roswell incident, I would like to say the following.
The odds of a plane crash on Earth are one in 1.2 million. In other words, for every 1,200,000 flights, only one is likely to crash.
If UFOs are extraterrestrial in origin, or even from our future, their technology must certainly be far, far greater than ours.
Rendering them near perfect regarding accidents.
Given the amount of claimed sightings and claimed crashes, the figures don’t add up.
The nearest star is approximately 4.2 light years away. An alien civilization must discover near-light speed technology to get here.
Or a variant of the alcubierre drive. Very advanced technology.
Their artificial intelligence capability would be incredibly advanced, as must their safety features.
So, how can an advanced species travel to Earth and then crash?
What are your thoughts?