Tune in to Roswell

Roswell. Nineteen forty-seven. Before the aliens, there was an Army announcement. Its own base said it had recovered a flying disc. By the next day, the public explanation was a balloon. That is one hell of a correction. Decades later, recovery officer Jesse Marcel described material he still considered extraordinary. Another participant, Sheridan Cavitt, remembered ordinary balloon debris. Same event. Very different memories. In nineteen ninety-four, the Air Force pointed to Project Mogul: balloon experiments intended to listen for Soviet nuclear tests. A real secret programme. Not an alien programme. Then government auditors found that some Roswell base records had been destroyed. The paperwork did not identify who destroyed them, when, or under what authority. That leaves a gap. A gap is worth investigating. It is not a licence to invent what belonged inside it. Open the records. Compare the witnesses. Follow the dates. The mystery deserves better than a slogan. Welcome to Roswell. Pick a room. I have left the files open.