The Roswell Incident Was A Government Coverup

This will make the second debate I have taken concerning Roswell and Mogul. My last debate was not reviewed by many, but my burden was higher in that one. Here, my opponent offers the position that the Roswell incident was a crash site from an alien craft and the military covered up the crash so as to prevent mass panic. I wish aliens did land as I have a few questions, but I must disagree with Pro as he will not be able to provide any evidence of life forms from that crash, nor will he be able to provide supporting evidence for technological items that we could not produce at that time. I have looked, and hoped, but it is not there. I think alien life is very plausible, but so far, I have found no reliable evidence to support the contention that they have landed at Roswell, or anywhere else for that matter. Pro gave a brief description of the "Roswell Incident" but we need to understand the hype surrounding this event and the facts that we can gather from the start. The wiki does not do it justice. First things first, on June 27, 1947, a pilot, Kenneth Arnold, reported seeing some strange objects in the night sky and many newspapers reported the incident. The reports came in as "flying saucers" or "flying disks". I will grant that Arnold's sighting is interesting, but many non extraterrestrial explanations exist. Arnold's sightings are not the subject of this debate, but please note that many newspapers, US and foreign, ran the story. THEN: July 8, 1947, The Roswell Army Air Force base reportedly gave a press release concerning a "flying saucer". The news reports of the release are well documented but no original copies of the release itself exist. http://ufologie.net... The release was given shortly after Mr. and Mrs. Wilmont reported seeing an object fall from the sky. No one in the community came forward with the story until this release was presented in the local Roswell paper. The Roswell paper reported the next day that a rancher had found wreckage in a field on June 14 but did not report it at that time. He contacted the Sherriff after reading about flying disks, the sheriff then contacted the USAAF so they could examine the wreckage. No disks were found. No aliens were found. The newspapers got it wrong. Here is what we have: 1.Reports of flying disks 2.Reports of seeing something crash 3.A crash site 4.Media Hype 5.A flying disk must have crashed at Corona; a rancher found the disk; the USAAF took the disk. 6.A modern myth is born My opponent is taking a heavy burden as he must show that an alien craft crash landed and that the military covered up the event. He will not be able to do so. Project Mogul: My opponent starts by attacking the most plausible explanation for the Roswell crash in referencing project Mogul. He bases his claim of crash site materials on a collage of eyewitness accounts and nothing more. My opponent quoted from this article: http://www.cufos.org... concerning the debris from the crash site, but we have a problem, the rancher in question never made the claims my opponent attributes to him. The rancher did not claim these points, the engineer writing the article wrote this quote and he gathered the information by selecting second hand accounts that agree with his alien debris idea. The engineer writing the article never saw the debris, ever. He never even saw the crash site. He references a previous article (which he wrote), but no copy is available online and my library does not carry UFO magazines, sadly. The problem with the debris is that no one can produce the evidence, and many of the accounts are second hand, and the claims contradict the first account the rancher gave to the Roswell paper. Here is what the Rancher said: "When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about three feet long and 7 or 8 inches thick, while the rubber made a bundle about 18 or 20 inches long and about 8 inches thick. In all, he estimated, the entire lot would have weighed maybe five pounds. There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for an engine and no sign of any propellers of any kind, although at least one paper fin had been glued onto some of the tinfoil." http://www.roswellfiles.com... Too easy. Here is a list of some of the quotes: http://www.roswellproof.com... From a pro alien site none the less. In further trying to remove Mogul from the hypothesis, my opponent claims the balloon chain could not account for the fiery crash. What fiery crash? The husband and wife claimed the object in the sky made little sound, and Rancher Brazel made clear he never saw anything crash. Source your claim as many witness accounts changed dramatically. As for characters on the debris, the mogul balloons did have characters on them and here they are: http://www.csicop.org... any yes equipment was found at the site and the balloon chain does not have to fall straight down, nor is implausible for it to leave a debris trail, I don't know where Pro got this information. Norma Gardner: Interesting statement indeed! Now, provide proof that Mrs. Gardner even worked at Wright Patterson and whether she had security clearance of any kind, ever. She may have, but I can't find it. And who heard this confession? I have found this quote but I cannot find a single point of verification. Also, why in the hell would anyone let a secretary type up the autopsies of aliens in the first place? The best way to keep a secret is to involve as few people as possible. They would have typed their own reports. Where did the writers of the book get the quote? My opponent explains why the military would cover up the incident, but so far has not shown any alien incident occurred in the first place. He has not met his burden.