509th Bomb Wing Essays

  • Perspective on Extraterrestrials

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    With more and more planets being discovered everyday isn’t it a little narcissistic of us to believe that we are the only planet that can sustain life. With movies like Star Wars, and Star Trek the thought of extraterrestrials are becoming more mainstream. However there are still many people who don’t believe. Throughout history there has been countless reports of U.F.O sightings. One of the first accounts is from the annals of Thutmose III who ruled around 1504-1450 B.C. The Egyptian papyrus

  • Roswell

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    saw a shallow trench that was several hundred feet long. Brazel went to Roswell and reported it. On July 1947 the press said that a wreckage of a crashed disk had been recovered and issued to col. William Blanchard of the 509th bomb group at Roswell. Just hours later the 509th bomb group said it had been mistakenly identified as a flying saucer when in fact it was really only a weather balloon. When and by whom was this debris found? W.W. “Mac” Brazel gathered his son and neighbours to check on the

  • Broken Arrow: Broken Arrow

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    a Mark 4 nuclear weapon to the 509th Bomb Wing at Walker AFB in Roswell. The aircraft and its crew of 13 were only in flight for approximately three minutes when the plane crashed into a mountain on Monzano Base, Kirtland AFB. All 13 personnel were killed in the crash. Neither the bomb, nor the high explosive material, exploded from the impact. Some of the explosive material was scattered and burned in the gasoline fire that resulted from the impact. The bomb cas... ... middle of paper ..

  • Albert Einstein And The Atomic Bomb

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    devastating. The stakes were at an all-time high due to the mystery involving the power of splitting atoms. What was not known at the time was what this race for controlling science would build up to. The development and use of the world’s first atomic bomb brought up many questions about the rights and responsibilities of nuclear and atomic science. In 1939, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt explaining what the Germans controlling atomic science could mean for the rest of the world

  • Aliens

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    that highly educated people are taking this seriously. That strange has now been seen in the sky for a very long time. Intelligent, honorable people have seen UFO’s and reported them. High-ranking intelligence officers of the military’s first atomic bomb squadron have recovered and examined what they believed to be a flying saucer and parts of it. After shipping it to higher headquarters their general tells them it’s not a flying saucer or UFO. Of all objects it is reported to be what seems like anyone