The Roswell incident was an incident that many conspiracy theorists believed that the US goverment had covered up the incident and that it is still currently shrouded in mystery today. The incident happened in July of 1947 when a rancher by the name of William "Mac" Brazel reported to the sheriff that he might have uncovered the remains of a UFO crash. Eventually, it was stated that it was just a mistaken weather balloon, and there was no UFO. The story eventually died down, except for conspiacy theorists, who still believe that there was a UFO, and that the government purposefully hid it away from the public. …show more content…
The CIA admitted, about a year or so ago, that Area 51 in Nevada does exist, but UFOs and the like are not there. Documents released say thet Area 51 was not a place to contain alien space craft, but instead was used as a testing range for U-2 spy planes during the Cold War. Flying at above 60,000 feet, eventually there were reports of unidentified flying objects above the Nevada desert. "High altitude testing of the U-2 soon led to an unexpected side effect -- a tremendous increase in reports of unidentified flying objects (UFOs)," the reports said. But alas, commerical airliners just saw the silver reflections coming off of the U-2's wings. (7) There is a possibility that binary star systems are habitable for life. Specifically, it depends on how big and how far apart the stars are to see if they are able to provide a planet with liquid water. Although water is a necessary factor for life, Venus and Mars in the Solar System, even in a habitable zone of the Sun, do not currently hold life.