The Roswell UFO Crash (Overview)
Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World
Jimmy Akin
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🗓️ 5 July 2019
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
On July 8, 1947, the Air Force announced a flying saucer crashed in Roswell, New Mexico, and then retracted the story. Was it an alien? Was it a weather balloon? Or was it something else? Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli examine the claims and evidence for what happened in Roswell.
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| 0:00.0 | Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World is brought to you by the StarQuest Production Network |
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| 0:22.6 | You're listening to episode 49 of Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World, |
| 0:27.3 | where we look at mysteries from the twin perspectives of faith and reason. |
| 0:31.3 | In this episode, we're talking about Get Ready for the Folks, the Roswell UFO Crash. |
| 0:37.2 | This is I'm really excited about this. Can you tell? |
| 0:39.8 | I'm Don Bettenelli and joining me today is Jimmy Akin. Hi Jimmy. |
| 0:43.5 | Howdy, Don. So I make no bones about that. I'm very excited. I love talking about UFOs. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm very excited about that. And of course, Roswell is the thing. So let's get into talk about |
| 0:54.0 | what it is Roswell is. On July 8th, 1947, 72 years ago this week, Americans were startled when |
| 1:01.1 | the Army Air Force announced that they had taken possession of a crashed flying saucer. |
| 1:07.2 | Now, the Air Force said that the saucer had crashed on a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. |
| 1:12.3 | But the public had suffered whiplash when the Air Force quickly retracted the story and said |
| 1:16.4 | it wasn't true. And then for years, the story was hidden, but decades later, it was revived by |
| 1:21.7 | UFO researchers. And the story of the Roswell crash has become the single most famous incident |
| 1:28.1 | in UFO history. And then in the 1990s, public pressure forced the Air Force to admit that they |
| 1:34.5 | had lied when retracting the story and something strange really did happen at Roswell in 1947. |
| 1:40.6 | And that's what we'll be talking about on this episode of Jimmy Akin's mysterious world. |
| 1:45.8 | So Jimmy, let's be honest, was Roswell really quark and rom traveling through time from Star Trek's |
| 1:50.6 | Deep Space Nine? Tom, you can't just blurt out the truth at the beginning of the episode. |
| 1:55.6 | It doesn't fit the narrative. You've got to, you've got to build towards that. |
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