Roswell

History of Area 51 Area 51 was originally an airbase but was later abandoned after the 1940’s. Early in the 1950’s the Central Intelligence Agency also known as the CIA entered an agreement with the company Lockheed. The company wanted a place that was remote in location but was close enough to a town to receive supplies. Thus they chose the Army Air Corps Gunnery School, which is now the present day location of Area 51. As soon as the company settled within area 51, it eventually took on the name Skunkworks, which is a term used for any company that works in secrecy. The Area 51 test site tested many different stealth planes such as the U-2 stealth plane. A major reason that the area sparked so much interest was that President Eisenhower signed an agreement to restrict commercial and certain military craft from flying over the base.

History of Roswell The conspiracy was started on July 2nd, 1947, when several people witnessed a “disc shaped object” flying northwest in the sky. Mac Brazel was a citizen who own a ranch and when he was out moving sheep, he came upon metallic pieces on the ground. He claimed he heard an explosion the night during a rainstorm but said it sounded different then thunder. But it wasn’t until the seventies that people regained interest in Roswell. The thing that interest many people was when the local newspaper was shut down in mid-progress of a story about the incident. The military base near Roswell claimed the objects recovered were a weather balloon that was apart of Project Mogul. Project Mogul was a series of high altitude weather balloons whose primary function was to detect soviet atomic bombs from the sound waves generated by the atomic devices. But the project was later scrapped and considered obsolete in comparison with seismographs and satellites.