The Secret Cold War Project Behind the Roswell UFO Incident 

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Cigarette Smoking Man: [lights up off camera] "Very good, Mr. Whistler, we're finished for today. Don't forget out conversation earlier, about your family's well-being."

Can we just appreciate that the amount of shenanigans that went down during the Cold War is absolutely fucking *bananas*

As a Minnesota native, I never would have assumed that General Mills was in the business of making secret weather balloons for the government.

"only a fool believes the official story" -Commander Sheppard 🤣

Lucky Charms at the time: pink hearts, silver balloons, and little green men

Simon. That cereal may be delicious, but it will never be legendary enough for that insane dollar amount.

meanwhile in an alternate timeline civilians mistook the Japanese Fugo balloons for alien spacecraft because of the Japanese writing stamped on them and mistook it for "alien language".

I don't think the "alien" theory of Roswell New Mexico would have gained so much traction if the government hadn't been so ham-handed in suppressing the story, thereby increasing suspicion. On the other hand, I imagine the government was laughing their ass off in knowing that so many foreign countries, (as well as Americans) believed that we just MIGHT have advanced alien technologies that they couldn't be sure we didn't have.

As a kid in northern Arizona in the mid 1950's it was a relatively common occurrence to see weather balloons floating along high in the sky. Assuming of course that they actually were "weather" balloons and not test beds for spy technology.

One pilot didn’t have fuel, the rest forgot their oxygen masks, one said “hold my beer” and ended up dead…yep, sounds like Kentucky.

Wow. I learned more about the Roswell incident from this video than I had from every TV show I've ever seen about it. The TV shows conveniently leave out the facts that the exact balloon was identified and that the "alien hieroglyphs" came from a toy store in New York. The state of modern TV programming is very depressing.

General Mills used to make O Gauge model trains with the Lionel branding. Their thumbs were everywhere...

If you ever feel unlucky for rolling a nat 1 in dnd, just imagine how unlucky you'd feel if you go picknicking and get killed by a japanese balloon which was just randomly sent across the pacific.

Interesting take on this. I remember the report that was released on the 50th anniversary of the Roswell incident that covered several other projects that were using such balloons at the time. I am kind of surprised that you did not mention any of them since they tie into some of your earlier videos on space exploration.

We all know this is a lie, Simon. Everybody knows it was a time-traveling group of Ferengi and one grumpy changeling with a sabotaged shuttle and a hold full of kemocite.

Don't know if you have seen Magic Spoon at the grocery store, but it is friging' expensive.

Remember, a flying balloon is, by definition, a UFO until someone identifies it

Given that "cereal" means "grain" (deriving from Ceres, the Roman goddess of grain), one could probably call the sponsor's product a cereal-free cereal.

It's amazing how American industry was so diversified back in those days. You could go to Dayton and get anything built.

Ahhh yess, just finished frying two eggs and toasted some bread. Let's sit down to some Simon ☕

Look, I'm not saying it was aliens......but it was aliens.

Can we talk about how the pentagon released that UFO's are real and they've known about them for a longgggg time?

Balloons inflated with coal gas, were the only way out of Paris during the fighting 1870. Letters and important people rode out at night. A system of transporting goods into Paris was to make waterproof packages that were almost able to float, which were carried and netted at night.

I really hope the email you got from them actually said 'yo yo yo fact boy' on it

People are still keen on immediately assuming alien technology when faced with any UFO situation.

Could the balloon conspiracy theory just be an elaborate plot by the air force that's just covering up for greylings, bigfoot, and reptile people?

I’m currently visiting Roswell, so this seems like a perfect time to watch this, lol.

10:52 😆 Simon, hardly able to contain his laughter ... since this isn’t business blaze or the casual criminalist, makes me wonder how many tangents he went on laughing at it, how many takes he had to do to say that with a straight face and lastly, if this was the best most serious one 😆

Ahhh, Roswell! Fact Boi, I could almost accuse you of being a Buzzkill. A Killjoy even, except the information in this video is very interesting. Since I have visited Roswell, N.M. and the UFO Museum I can forgive you this. The whole town is so kitschy and quirky with UFO mania and memorabilia that it is worth a visit. You would find it amusing. Now, a challenge for you...have you considered a video about the Marfa Lights out in West Texas?

Try the Simon Whistler "Cocaine frosted flakes" =)

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That makes a lot of since. Thanks for the video Simon Whistler!

"I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination." J. Edgar Hoover-Director of FBI The security guard called and said, “Sir, there’s a glowing red object hovering right outside the front gate. I’ve got all the men out here with their weapons drawn.” We lost between 16-18 ICBMs (nuclear tipped Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles) at the same time UFOs were in the area… (A high ranking Air Force officer) said, “Stop the investigation; do no more on this and do not write a final report. I heard that many of the guards that reported the incident were sent off to Vietnam." Captain Robert Salas, USAF, during a videotaped interview for the Disclosure program. "A few insiders know the truth...and are studying the bodies that have been discovered." -Dr. Edwin Mitchell Apollo 14..the 6th NASA employee to walk on the Moon. "Maximum security exists concerning the subject of UFOs.” CIA Director, Allen Dulles, 1955. “Behind the scenes, high-ranking Air Force officers are soberly concerned about UFOs. But through official secrecy and ridicule, many citizens are led to believe that unknown flying objects are nonsense.” Former CIA Director, Roscoe Hillenkoetter, public statement, 1960. “We’ll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false” -William Casey, CIA director, 1981 “Yes, there have been ET visitations. There have been crashed craft. There have been material and bodies recovered. There has been a certain amount of reverse engineering that has allowed some of these craft, or some components, to be duplicated. And there is some group of people that may or may not be associated with government at this point that have this knowledge. They have been attempting to conceal this knowledge. People in high level government have very little, if any, valid information about this. It has been the subject of disinformation in order to deflect attention and create confusion so the truth doesn’t come out. ” ― Edgar D. Mitchell, The Way of the Explorer: An Apollo Astronaut's Journey Through the Material and Mystical Worlds MEANINGFUL congressional hearings, ala the Watergate hearings, including aerospace/defense contractors and Vice Admiral Thomas R. Wilson must be held to address a vital issue that transcends politics and we will never properly advance until it happens: The 75+yr ongoing-constitutionally illegal, EXTRATERRESTRIAL cover-up. How can we truly believe anything our elected officials say? The dog n pony shows must cease.

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Ah yes, I can still hear that chilling call to "let float the balloons of war"

As growing up in the Pacific NW, we are STILL finding (active and dud) Japanese fire bombs, and some have created post-WW II forest fires in Washington and Oregon.

On a side note - Steven Spielberg have produced a great mini series called "Taken" depicting two families pitched in opposition to eachother trying through five decades and four generations to find out exactly what happened. It's a little on the rosy-red side of narration style (as is a lot of mr. Spielberg's work) but it's still pretty good for watching while waiting for new year's to come around.

That beard is really coming along... how about a doc about that? Not just yours, but beards in general. ie. Why are so many of the great minds of our past never put blade to hair? Cmon. It'll be fascinating.

Thank you Simon for your Video's! Food for my brain, they all are. 👍

From weather balloon to spy balloon. This story is so odd it actually makes saucermen more plausible. But given how wacky the CIA under “wild Bill” was in those days this whole idea does not surprise me.

I really enjoyed this video, the general Mills connection to project mobile in interesting. It'd be cool to see more videos about famous ufo sightings than were actually top secret aircraft.

Suddenly reminded of someone somewhere saying to an x files fan: "the truth is subjective. YOU'RE out there!"

Came for the confirmation bias. Was not disappointed. If it were fuel, this comment section could power Roswell.

Or, at least the government wants you to BELIEVE the Roswell craft was a balloon....

I love the mentality of the military keep the first letter G to change the rest of it. The truth is out there but you have to dig through the garbage to find it

The government is just mad they can't fine the aliens for littering.

This makes the documentary "Mirage Men" a lot more respectful - and also the older UFO commnunity. "Mirage Men" is from 2013.

Great video brother!!

I low-key hate you for this.. but excellent reporting and research.

You just Decimated My Childhood. 🤨 Thanks.

great one as always

Good video 👍

Sadly, my dad's one of them who thinks it's all aliens, even when he described the shiny thin material that when crushed in the hand would open back up again, I did just that with a deflated mylar balloon (you know, the cheap shiny things they shove on a stick), which did as described, and I was 9 at the time... :P

I expect a lot of rational discussion in the comments section.

As usual the actual history is even more fascinating than the myth.

Now the balloons are shaped like tic-tacs and they can dodge navy jets.

I thought I knew this story but this video was full of details that I hadn't heard before. Thank you! This was fascinating.

Did the US government sponsor this video? lol..

To quote Al Gore on south park. " I am Super Cereal "

Nahhh I think what’s more logical is an intergalactic super advanced race in a suave craft navigating the galaxy then accidentally crashing in a desert

It's always hilarious when the conspiracy theorists are actually right.

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"Yo, yo, yo! Facts Boy!" HAHA! that's so you Simon. Great line!

Looking good, Simon..

Who would have thought that spy balloons was made by a cereal company

Parabolic Microphones covered in Mylar looked like Flying Saucers. Mylar is Aluminum Oxide coated plastic. Thick Mylar looks like metal.

amazing to hear the mention of Madisonville, KY. I live 45 miles away and never had heard of this

I asked my elementry school chess instructor about aliens. He was a german rocket scientist whom was brought here to Huntsville, Alabama for NASA. I was in 5th or 6th grade maybe 40 years ago or so. He told me that Roswell was a Japanese balloon that had finally made it over the pacific. It had stayed up in the upper atmosphere and slowly made its way over. The 3 bodies they said were aliens were actually Japanese children whom had died and had decomposed somewhat and had high altitude conditions of damage to their bodies. Apparently the Japanese had a plan to bomb the US during WW2 by balloons across the pacific. I don't know if this is true but he definitely thought it was true. He said the US didn't want to scare the country of this during WW2 that they knew of this and that later after WW2 when this happened they just covered it up still.

Beard is getting a little wild. Are you ZZToping it?

Yes people of Earth, a craft made from tin foil and tape traveled thru interstellar space and entered our atmosphere. Too bad that after all that way, it "crashed" upon reaching the planet it sought out among the cosmos :)

I love how BrainBlaze Simon is seeping into all the other channels

My problem with Roswell is that a 1947 September memorandum from Wright Field ( Wright Patterson Air Force Base ) to the commanding General of the Army Air Forces at the Pentagon on the subject of "Flying Discs" ( the term "ufo" hadn't been invented yet) says there is a "LACK of crashed recovered exhibits" or in plain English "WE DON'T HAVE ANY CRASHED UFOS"! A July 1947 FBI report says the Roswell debris was transported to Wright Field. This doesn't make sense if Roswell was due to a crashed ufo. New evidence uncovered by researcher Nick Redfern indicates Roswell had Nothing to do with aliens and Everything to do with illegal and diabolical high altitude experiments using mutant humans from Japan by Nazi German and Japanese scientists working under the Pentagon's Project Paperclip. I agree with Redfern who says that if Roswell was Proven to be a Paperclip project the UFO communuty will NOT be able to recover from the collective shock. .damn, I wouldn't be surprised if certain ufo enthusiasts on RU-vid end up jumping out of tall office buildings. .But before some of you decide to open that tall office window my message is Don't confuse the real ufos flying around Mexico etc with Roswell.

Ok, you got the balloon thing down. Now what about the UFO that crashed in Roswell?

So you know the truth, that thousands of others tried for years to find out. You are scraping the barrel.

MOGUL and these other projects are interesting in their own right, but I don't believe for a minute that they actually explain the 1947 Roswell incident. People have described seeing too many things, including actual alien bodies and material that can't be cut and always retains its shape, for that to be the case.

So General Mills can make high attitude balloons, but they can't put ziplock bags in their cereal boxes? FML! Lol 😆

I am almost certain I have seen the "hieroglyphic tape" I used to collect fancy paper kites made in Hong Kong. They had tails made out a paper tape with intricate designs. I just looked up the kites. They were made by the Tientsin company. I bet that tape that came from a toy company was made in China.

I wonder if the "German emigree " scientist was part of operation paperclip

good vid simon :)

I had forgotten this, but the B-52 was originally going to be named the Cheeriofortress. That was before Gen Mills got out of the aerospace industry.

I'm sure I saw one of these, or similar balloons, 50 years ago being sent over the Soviet Union.

And they are like " yo yo yo fact boy" 😂😂😂

Next you should cover the Kecksburg, Pennsylvania UFO Incident.

I live in Oregon and lived near one of the Japanese balloons crash sites for a while. I thought it was planes that made it over. Thanks for the information.

Simon, you trully believe this is the truth?

Those balloons you mentioned had a very specific purpose. I belonged to the same organization you speak of. It was still highly classified well above top secret in the 1970's. Ultimately we were directly credited with preventing WW3. Some of those later balloon flights were a diversion, to keep public attention, away from the monitoring site we were deploying all over the word. Along with there identical Soviet Sites and the back channels we used to keep tensions from getting out of control. We all bought the equipment from TI.

Plenty of aliens in Grimsby!!

_~sigh~_ It's sad how so many are still arguing, here in the comments, about how it *has* to be aliens, because "da gummint" always lies. 🙄 Even though the pictures from the time, and the recently declassified files on the whole era weren't redacted enough to make an anthill of a difference, yeah, sure... it's _still aliens._ Ugh... "Of course it is, Uncle Bob." While thinking, 'yeah, whatever.' _~facepalm~_

Extremely well researched and very interesting, thanks.

We should have gone with the UFO theory. Imagine the ussr believing we had alien technology in our possession that might have scared the crop out of them and kept them from getting too froggy

Vid starts at 1:50

Aliens could land on Simon’s front lawn and wave, yet he’d still deny it.

Wow, i love just how convoluted the cover story has become.

How about doing a bit on the grid pattern on your glasses. The reflection from the light makes it look like you are looking through a screen. My glasses have never had that appearance.

(casually reading comments before watching) daym this gona be good

I live in Roswell and I can't believe people travel all the way here to see....a museum. That's literally all there is to see here when you visit. They take people on tours out to a random piece of desert and tell them that's where it crashed.... Allegedly

No matter How You look at it, You still have to make the Jump that ALL these High Ranking Military Personal Couldnt tell a Metal Disk from a Piece of Foil or a Balloon.🤔

After “The Road To Wellville,” I’ll believe any story tangentially or otherwise related to a cereal manufacturer.

K always loved to tell the air balloon story