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Roswell's Weird Metal and Wright-Patterson Cover Story

from The Joe Rogan Experience | The Tim Dillon Show #422 · #422

3 min

They discuss Roswell's cultural mythologizing versus the compelling firsthand testimony about unexplained self-healing metal and hieroglyphic-like writing recovered from the crash and rushed to Wright-Patterson.

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  • Roswell happened so long ago that everyone involved is dead, and the town has turned it into a commercialized tourist attraction with alien merchandise everywhere.
  • Newspaper originally reported a crashed flying saucer; military flew the wreckage to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on two separate jets in case one crashed, and Truman met them there.
  • Jesse Marcel was ordered to hold a press conference claiming the debris was a weather balloon, but he later said they had no idea what the material actually was.
  • The recovered metal could be crushed into a ball and immediately spring back to its original shape — a material nobody could identify.
  • Wreckage included beams covered in writing that witnesses described as ancient hieroglyphics or an unknown language.
  • If it really was just a weather balloon, the military wouldn't have mobilized Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, sent two jets, or had Truman greet them.
  • Historical accounts of UFO sightings from the 1700s and 1800s, documented in Jacques Vallée's research, suggest this phenomenon goes back centuries.
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RoswellWright-Patterson Air Force BaseHarry TrumanJesse MarcelJacques Vallée

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