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The whole Balloon thing meshing up with Aliens got me thinking about the Roswell incident in 1947 and "Aliens" and if they were using it to communicate the "Alien invasions" that some say are coming. Deja VU?
Below is an excerpt from Britanica.com:
the Roswell incident, events surrounding the crash and recovery of a U.S. Army Air Forces high-altitude balloon in 1947 near Roswell, New Mexico, which became the centre of a conspiracy theory involving UFOs and extraterrestrials. The U.S. military fostered the intrigue by initially claiming that the recovered debris was from a “flying disc” before announcing that the wreckage belonged to a weather balloon. In 1994 it was finally revealed that the balloon was part of the top-secret Project Mogul, which sought to detect Soviet nuclear bomb tests. That revelation, however, did little to end the conspiracy theories.
In World War II, the atomic bomb carrying B-29 bombers trained out of Roswell Army Air Base, a Top Secret activity of the Manhattan Project. Not too many people know about it, even today. In 1947, the government wanted anything other to take attention during the fluff about the balloon wreckage. But they couldn't disclose the classified balloon activity either, so they disclosed it was a weather balloon (very similar in design---and evidence we were doing this long before China).
Meanwhile, Kenneth Arnold had reported UFOs around Mount Rainier on 24 June 1947. The Roswell "incident" occurred around 4 July 1947. The proximity of the two events was fortuitous, and the attribution of UFO wreckage was jumped on by the "anons" of the day. Just a lesson in "connecting" dots that aren't connected.
I agree with the attention diversion and interesting connect the dots