Something Strange Happened In This Desert 70 Years Ago 

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I applaud Thoughty2 for moving through this content without any mention of the X-Files. Well done, sir.

This is one of the best channels online today... Always thought provoking and factual, most of the time I didn't even know I was interested in the given subject... Awesome

“Hey guys, Forty2 here” 😂😂 am I the only one who still hears this? I love the videos though, keep up the great work

I was a huge skeptic until I walked onto my deck midday and something bigger than a major hotel was hanging silently above the trees. I froze, started shaking uncontrollably and in that split second realized there was a vast difference between extreme fright and terror. I never want to feel that way again, never told anyone. 1985, North Atlanta, Georgia.

I remember my grandma telling me that when she was 15 in 1965, the year she migrated from Greece to Australia and at school everyone there saw a UFO during recess and everyone in the school staff told everyone not to tell anybody. In 2021 there was a show on this in Australia.

I used to live in Roswell for about 15 years. Everything is Alien based there, the lights downtown, the McDonald’s lol. Good video! Shared it with my family thanks thoughty2!

This has got to be the best unbiased take on the Roswell incident I've seen. Great content Thoughty 2👍

A couple points are always missed when this story is brought up. Brazell found the debris on ranch land over 70 miles from Roswell. He was days away from his home via horseback. He rode out to the ranch, being used for sheep, slept in a shed when there was a storm overnight. He heard the loud explosion during that storm. The next day he rode out to where the debris was. He didn't collect any of it just then. He went home and discussed it with his neighbors. They mentioned to him that there was a $$ reward for anyone bringing any parts or debris from a flying disc (UFO). So he went back out, another overnight trip, collected a small amount of debris and then went home, another overnight trip. Then he drove this small amount of debris to the Sheriff in Roswell. This is all important and I will say why in a moment. The sheriff called the air base and Jesse Marcel was sent out along with a government intelligence agent. They drove out to the site. They had to stop before they got there and spend the night in a shed. The next morning they showed up to the debris field. Which by the way was extensive, hundreds of yards long and hundreds of feet wide. Now, it had been many, many days since Brazell first stumbled on this debris. Years later, the Air Force threw that Project Mogul story out there to try and shut this thing down. A couple of problems with this. First, Project Mogul wasn't in place till AFTER this event. Second, Major Marcell & the intelligence agent were COMPLETELY WELL VERSED on any projects being conducted. Third, if any TOP SECRET flying device being used to detect Soviet nuclear tests had crashed and gone off the grid, most assuredly there'd of been some sort of search for it. Given that this thing was laying around in the open desert for many, many days and no one from the Roswell air base had been dispatched to look for any crashed devices, the story of ANY secret government flying devices crashing just doesn't hold water. Further, Marcel loaded as much debris as he could in his car, the intelligence guy grabbed a bunch and there was a whole field of it left behind. Marcel took the materials home before taking it to the base the next day. After he got to the base the order was given to go back out and collect the debris left behind. More days going by and no one searching. The most important points are that Marcel had full knowledge of any Top Secret projects. He had a Top Secret clearance, he was an intelligence officer and had full knowledge and understanding of all balloons, aircraft and anything they were using. His descriptions of the debris were very specific. Critics keep going to the writing on the I-Beams. But they keep overlooking the feather light foil like substance that could be folding and crunched up and then when set down it would open back up and have no creases. And the other plastic/metal type of sheets that couldn't be burned, dented with a hammer or be destroyed. The I-beams couldn't be broken, burned or destroyed. In his words, these materials were like nothing on Earth. It also has to be said, MAJOR MARCEL NEVER SAW ANY ACTUAL CRAFT OR ALIENS. Just the debris on the Foster Ranch. This story went away after it happened. Only decades later before Major Marcel passed away did he speak to Stanton Freidman about what happened. For me, Major Marcel's account is good enough. So many nutjobs and liars have spoken to would be authors and "investigators" that any credibility has been lost on this story. But if you go back to Major Marcel and his son, who handled some of the debris, and take that alone, you know it was no balloon, no Mogul or similar thing. And a final note, when the dust settled from this, Major Marcel was moved to the program that tested for Soviet detonations of nuclear devices. He was in the loop.

I actually went to the Roswell McDonald's one time, in my teenage years I believe. I found it so hilarious that it had a UFO replica on the outside of it. The kids area was actually a lot bigger than I thought it would be. Even though it was in the UFO portion of the McDonald's, I thought most of that portion was just oddly shaped wall on the inside.

I will never cease to be amazed by Thoughty2's dedication of creating his own stock footage for these videos. Truly amazing.

I’ve been to Roswell back in October and visited the museum. I could have just watched this video and learned as much. Thank you for your balanced look and presentation of the events that took place there without going off the deep end on either side of the debate. Well done!

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5:14 you made me burst into laughter with that one: "That's a pigeon, you prick" hahahahaha

This is honestly my favourite channel on RU-vid. Love what you do, 42, you're the best!

Seen a "did the rosswell UFO crash happen" and thoughty2 made so clicked. Woulda passed anyone else. You put solid work into researching your topics.

I think the class of school kids who witnessed a craft landing near their school and went and witnessed beings from it is the most compelling story. Would be great to see Thoughty do an episode on that one.

Love how you play and analyze every topic. You're an amazing storyteller 👌

The way Thoughty2 and Jack's humor work together to make such informative and hilarious videos is a true gift to YT

4:55 That story wasn't the first use of the term "flying saucer". I've read other, much earlier, UFO sightings, where they also used the same term. The claim that Kenneth Arnold's sighting was the first use of the description,"flying saucer" is something that only came about around ten to fifteen years ago. I don't know who was the first person to make the claim, but people have been copying that incorrect statement ever since. A problem with the military's claim about the Roswell crash being Project Mogul is those balloons weren't in service until much later (I don't remember exactly when). There are two other problems with their claim about the bodies being crash-test dummies. The first being that crash test dummies weren't even invented until two years after the Roswell UFO crash, in 1949. The other hole is the Roswell crash happened some time between the 1st and 4th of July in 1947, but pretty much exactly 49 years, 11 months and 3 weeks after the incident, the military released their claim about crash test dummies while also claiming they couldn't tell us about them before, due to a fifty year secrecy clause! ie. They released an apparently fifty years secrecy clause one week before the clause was due to lapse. As for their original claim of it being a crashed weather balloon. I used to own the remnants of a crashed weather balloon. The parts I found couldn't have been any newer than the '70s, due to the electrical components that were used, but they could have been older. There's no mistaking parts of a weather balloon for anything from another planet. The only components were a small circuit board, measuring about 12-15 cm square, that had really obviously made-on-earth, off the shelf components and a piece of old rubber balloon. The military have just piled lies upon lies about what really happened with the Roswell UFO crash. What ever it was, it wasn't a weather balloon, it wasn't a Project Mogul balloon and there were no crash test dummies involved.

Can we just appreciate the great animation for these videos!

The reason I'm highly skeptical of Roswell being a crashed alien UFO is simply that, if an alien civilization has mastered interstellar travel, I would assume that they would probably have the whole in-flight repair thing down, too. The idea of a craft that advanced crashing just doesn't seem likely to me.

I believe that Roswell gained plenty due to that UFO obsession. Great way to revive a small town!

Man this guy can carry out a story so well

I think most people are forgetting that the whole idea of "flying saucers" is a misinterpretation. The guy was describing their movement as being like saucers skipping on the water. He was not describing the shape. But the papers printed "flying saucer" and then everyone started seeing flying saucers. But the reported "flying saucer" that sparked it all was never saucer-shaped. So you can pretty much be sure anyone describing a "flying saucer" is just the power of suggestion. The term never had a basis.

Your perspective on all the stuff out there that human history and humans have concocted through the ages is really the healthiest and least depressing that ever existed on the web and yet it can truly claim to be as impartial as any. I have never imagined what all we humans are capable of! Watching your episodes on human nature and the historical characters that you bring back to life is like visiting a cosmos of weirdness that no fiction writer has ever been able to conjure. Yet you seem to have a soft heart for their weiredness and are never deprecative even when incisive and biting in your descriptions. You are master in revealing the follies and foibles and frailities of human character that I imagine even Dickens would have appreciated. And more than that the charachters are real! A new genre of art you have created that way.

I find it interesting that the original UFO in this video that "skipped like saucers" were (supposedly) cigar-shaped. Yet after the papers reported "flying saucers", people started seeing... flying saucers. Not cigars. And if you look at descriptions of aliens themselves, as told by people who claim to have seen them, the forms the aliens take pretty much lag right behind how they're depicted as in popular movies of the times. But I'm sure that's completely unrelated.

I'm of two minds. One, I was stationed at RAF Bentwaters shortly after your Roswell, the Rendelsham Forest incident. I trust what my commander and the SPs claim they saw. On the other hand I know people in DARPA and they can't say what they're working on, but "you'll see it in twenty years." Anyway, great episode.

Hello Mr. Lomas. I don't know what research you have done in the Post WW2 era, but I think it may be worth your while. As the Allied Military entered central Europe at the end of WW2 they found that Germany and her allies were working more than a hundred experimental airborne weapons including guided missiles and manned craft. Many of those experiments were bundled up and shipped to White Sands proving grounds to be reverse engineered. While some of those experiments have been widely publicized others have not. I firmly believe that an alien craft did crash near Roswell, I but it's origin was much more likely to be Germany or even Japan, not some far off planet. As for the "Alien" bodies? In the words of Tom Wolfe: "They were called Test Pilots... And no one knew their names."

Awesome presentation of the Roswell incident! I love watching your videos Thoughty2! I have met Stanton Friedman and have been following this story for years, thanks for giving and unbiased accurate depiction of the story :)

im proud of you man i been watching you for a long time , basically the beginning!! i knew you would explode, you deserve it

I'm always amazed by your videos, very creative and still very enlightening and educational. Brilliant!!!!. This is one of my favourite RU-vid channels yet. I'd love to see u make a video on cryptids like mermaids

I saw one last night in my backyard. It landed and a small creature got out and came up to me and asked if I knew where it could find some intelligent life forms. I told it I was an example of the most intelligent creatures on earth. It looked at me for a moment, then jumperd back in its craft and flew straight up and out into space. I assumed it was excited to get back home to tell its kind about finding such an advanced creature as I !!!

Well...there's probably around 100 Billion stars in the Milky Way and given a statistical likelihood of around 4 planets per star on average there are probably closer to 400 Billion planets in the Milky Way. Of course this is really all Semantics once you clear the first 50 Billion or so.

Never expect those in authority to reveal anything truthful regarding Roswell.

Again, a nice and well-explained video, and with the usual proper humor. Even I read a book about the Rosswell Incident, and always wondered why an advanced technological civilization would travel across the interstellar light-years, only to crash in the desert.

I went to college in Roswell in the early 1980's (NMMI). We used to go rappelling in the abandoned missile silos in the desert, near the town. We participated in the annual streak every year. (The streak had started as a protest in 1978 as disapproval of allowing women into the military academy). I spent my first year after college in the Army national guard and my unit was in Roswell at the same base Marcel was stationed at in the 40's. lots of crazy stuff going on in Roswell in the early 80's. But 1 thing we never heard, ever, was the mention of any UFO, or aliens. not at college or in the military on the same base. I think all the UFO hype started sometime after the book "The Roswell Incident" was written in 1988. about a decade or so after that the town really started promoting the UFO stuff. Roswell has always been a fairly poor town and the UFO story gave them an avenue to get a different set of tourists to the town. Frankly it make me sad when I go back to visit or attend Homecoming events at the college. I have great memories from Roswell, none of them UFO or alien related.

My heart sank when for a moment I thought that thoughty2 was trying to get us into NFTs.

I thought for sure you were going to shoot down the UFO story, but you left it as the "?" that it truly is. Excellent reporting work!

Always appreciate your videos! Definitely food for thought every time! Kudos!

Always a treat your videos are! Thank you Thoughty2

Hey Thoughty!

I like how he's kept the same intro over all these years

Hollywood and BBC can learn a thing or more from Mr. 2 here, by far the most professional amateur content creator out there, keep it up Mr. 2, you're doing a hell of a job and ....thanks for showing, i'll be watching ; )

A Dutch comedian once had good point. In one of his shows he explained there are either 3 options with the case of aliens. The first one they simply don't exist. The second one: their technology is inferior to ours. In which case, we shouldn't be interested in finding them. The last one: their technology is superior to ours. In this case they should be able to find us. Result: we should stop looking for them🤣

Yes, it did happen, I saw it with my own eyes! I was in that spacecraft, still got a scar on my knee from the crash. I even go to therapy for the PTSD.

Nothing beats a day off with Thoughty2 and Mr Ballen!! Im lovin it

Thank you so much for a real examination of the incident

Thinking we're the only ones in this universe is like a grain of sand on the beach thinking it's the only one.

my girlfriend and i had a sighting 10 yrs ago in germany... weird maneuvering, hovering silently in one spot, and getting lost in the stars is a fragment of a second. these things are definitely real !

Glad you covered this subject fairly seriously. One day things like this will be used in the court of public opinion to show how we are being manipulated.

Seriously thoughty2, it took you this long to cover this?!!!!? Well, you've always left me satisfied.

The cover-up was real, what they were covering up is unknown

Great video about Roswell .. you shared all point of views and did NOT take sides . Super work

Another informative video! Thanks, buddy!

Thoughty2 you legend. Love you man.

The thing is, none of the "alien body" stories were mentioned until Stanton Friedman started interviewing people many years later. Memories being what they are, it's very plausible that dates/years could get confused, especially since it wasn't a big deal at the time. Friedman effectively "created" the story by piecing together things that various people told him. Project Mogul exactly fits what Mac Brazel saw.(Right down to the flowery tape that was used because it was laying around.) Everything else was "remembered" years later. It's not even a close call, it was definitely Mogul.

No. An officer who just happened to be a UFO buff got stationed at Rosewell, and suddenly, all manner of UFO's began to appear! How very convenient for him!

We used to drive to Roswell from Alamogordo to go drag race cars. I saw a lot crazier things in the sky on the way to Roswell than I saw while I was in Roswell. The New Mexico sky at night is insane.

Glad to see you’re covering this topic. There is more. MUCH more. This is only the tip of the iceberg. Hope to see you delve into ufology more!

Good job Thoughty2! Appreciate the lack of scepticism. Your humor is appreciated. Good graphics. Thanks bro.

Marcel said the metal which was all bent and broken from the crash was impervious to being bent and broken. Sounds legit!

Fun fact, the "ufo" crashed on the border between my grandpa's friends father's farm and another landowner. I have met the daughter of the man who owned the farm personally and eaten dinner from there. My grandpa lived there when this happened. My whole family is from there. It's a huge part of my family history, and I love trying to convince people I really think I'm an alien 😂

Haha, very well put together. Reminds me of the sci-fi comedy movie Paul !

I currently live in Roswell. There are some UFO-themed shops for tourists, but it is nothing like Disneyland.

Great video. Fair analysis. One thing I saw that (if accurate) would also be relevant was that the debris was scattered across multiple acres and required something like 2-4 flatbed trailers to transport the debris to the base they took it too. If that is true, it really doesn't sound like a weather balloon of any sort.

That was really interesting, thanks 😍🇬🇬

Appreciate your open mindedness on this, and not just ridiculing the subject

Thoughty 2 is awesome. I could listen to him talk for an eternity.

I was four years old at the time of the Roswell crash. I couldn't read at that age, but an older cousin related the Roswell crash story to me. BUT, what evidently has been heavily redacted, is a part of the story that I have never seen again online or anywhere. He related, "A flying saucer crashed in the desert in New Mexico. There was a smaller one too about two ft. in diameter, and a farmer caught it. It started to move and he wrestled with it, but it got away." Has anyone else heard this part of the story? I sure would like to hear about it.

I'm glad to hear you're input thank you for such a masterful video

I love when @Thoughty2 talks about aliens! 👽

I lived in Roswell in the 60s and I will never believe that story. My dad was stationed at Walker AFB in Roswell and he always told me that if I see any unusual looking aircraft that it would be an experimental aircraft.

Just Imagining there are aliens among us watching this videos and thinking, "This Guy is really good, he might find us out"...Thoughty2

Is it crazy that I trust this Channel more than anything else on tv love your work man please never stop

Wow! You tackled an easy one this week!

Jessy Marcel Jr. wrote a book about his experience describing his father's account. The title is The Roswell Legacy: The Untold Story of the First Military Officer at the 1947 Crash Site

Wish you’d mentioned the public announcement made back in April 2019 (?) by a pentagon official admitting they’d acquired material of an extraterrestrial origin. It was hardly covered. Not even a mention from the mainstream. Great content as always Thoughty. Thank you.

I have seen a lot of strange and weird stuff recorded by the advanced cameras that almost everybody has got on his/her smartphone. Two things I haven't seen yet: a)Ghosts b)Aliens c)Thoughty1

Yes, one of my favorite Unsolved Mysteries episodes. Please do Victorio Peak treasure :)

Could you do a video on pre Roswell sightings such as Aurora 1897?

If you scrolled down this far you are a legend and must love this channel

honestlythis guys been killing it since i watched back since 2015. that was nearly 7 years ago. 👌

With all honesty, this was a very interesting and I think there's a lot more going on than just a "Weather Balloon".

It was just swamp gas reflecting light from Venus.

Haha i actually live 2 hours from Roswell and if you gotta go to federal court, you know disability or such, thats where you go... Its a mega tourist trap today... But your still twenty miles south of the location and even then its private land and they will not allow you to look ... So yeah...

Great vid! Haven't watched in a while and was wondering where did you lose your snappy suit?

Weather balloons sound like a way more reasonable and logical explanation than nonsensical aliens.

Always an intriguing story. Interestingly, the sketch provided by Jesse Marcel looks an awful lot like the Horten Bros fixed wing design from the decade prior. I always felt there must a connection which would explain the secrecy of German tech making its way to US soil. Just a guess.

A lot of Roswell witnesses were threatened with something unfortunate happening to either them or their family. Frightening civilians obviously seemed acceptable to keep them quite.

Anyone else notice the different "look" that @Thoughty2 has going on? Looking good, my man! Stay healthy, okay? Keep taking care of yourself so you may continue bringing this type of awesome content to us self-isolated loaners haha. Thank you for all your awesome videos, sir.

The Roswell "incident" scenario is absolutely hilarious, but that's the US for you. Thanks, Arran, you never fail to get our little grey cells activated to the full.😉

Did the Pentagon not confirm that they have aliens in roswell already?

In the words of my grand father: people are stupid “Charlie” and no matter the truth some will always believe the bullshit. Take this as you will.

Love it!!! More quackery please 🤣

"In his role as a military intelligence officer, he knew every material that was used to construct aircraft..." LOL! good one. I guess all military intel officers are instantly aircraft engineers haha

Lived in that part of New Mexico for awhile, been through Roswell many times, knew many people. In fact took my kids to the alien museum there the other week. I try to keep an open mind about these things. Still processing the tic-tac vids. The alien museum is genius, brings lots of money to the area. Personally, my little opinion is that it was a crappy cover up of crashed experimental atomic bomb detector like the museum has a display of in a passageway. The museum is well worth a visit and there are some displays that provoke thought. My kids enjoyed the McDonalds but unfortunately the play area was closed due to Covid. BTW yes I did see a ufo in New Mexico! Spherical, silvery color , high in the air. But when a cloud covered the sun it turned transparent. Then I realized I was looking at a weather balloon! If it wasn’t for the cloud I would claim an alien spacecraft perhaps. Lololol.

Awww! No mention to the autopsy videos? Looking back to that now is all fun, back when I was about 8/9, it kinda creeped me out! I used to think that aliens would come and abduct me for watching that video xD

as always very nice and informative video always enjoy them.

I would say this is amazing that expansion of phones with camera and digital stabilization somehow made alien/ghost/demons/cryptic animals videos extremely rare... and mostly debunked in less than few days after release.