Conspiracy Theorists and other UFOlogists
I must admit to being fascinated by the whole question of Roswell and its "cover-up"
Robert de Boron and the Prose Merlin
There are so many wonderful things about the internet: there was a time when a scholar had to order through ILL and wait for weeks or months before he or she could set eyes on such works as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini or Robert de Boron's Prose Merlin . No more. from Prose Merlin Robert de Boron Full wrothe and angry was the Devell, whan that oure Lorde hadde ben in helle and had take oute Adam and Eve and other at his plesier. And whan the fendes sien that, they hadden right grete feer and gret merveile. Thei assembleden togedir and seiden: "What is he this thus us supprisith and distroyeth, in so moche that oure strengthes ne nought ellis that we have may nought withholde hym, nor again hym stonde in no diffence but that he doth all that hym lyketh? We ne trowed not that eny man myght be bore of woman but that he sholde ben oures; and he that thus us distroyeth, how is he born in whom we knewe non erthely delyte?" Than ansuerde anothir fende and seide
Steven,
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing the way some whackos get turned on by a weather balloon.
The best conspiracy theory that I have read is that it actually was an experimental nuclear-powered plane that crashed. Rather than give away military information to the Russians, military intelligence decided to play along with the UFO crowd by issuing contradictory or ambiguous information.
The alien was a chimp in a pressure suit. One of the problems was the radioactivity present in the craft. Appropriate shielding would have been very heavy, so they were testing the amount of exposure that the crew would experience during a flight.