Source: spiked
by Simon Evans
“There is something unavoidably quaint about the UFO conspiracy theory. The discovery of supposed alien space-craft debris near Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947, is closer to the time of Jack the Ripper than it is to the present moment. The idea that materials discovered there belong to some advanced interstellar craft that the United States Army Airforces (USAAF) have been reverse-engineering ever since should by all rights have decayed and perished as much as the rubber components implausibly found among them. … Why has it lasted? It may be because, as conspiracy theories go, this one is unusually optimistic. When the truth comes out, it will make things better, more exciting. This is very different from the usual tin-foil-hat fare …” (02/20/26)