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CHAPTER Experiments that raise questions OF COURSE, THE HISTORY OF UFOLOGY does not begin in 1947. However, on 24 July of that particular year Kenneth Arnold saw nine objects in the sky near Mount Rainier in the state of Washington. This event marked a significant turning point in global history. It stood out for two reasons. First of all, the observer was par- ticularly unique. Kenneth Arnold was a businessman as well as a pilot. While flying his airplane he saw boomerang-shaped objects that would later be known as flying saucers.’ The second reason was generated by the media. Indeed, the development of press, radio and television underwent enormous growth and the event seemed sufficiently dra- matic to be publicized. In fact, the extraterrestrial hypothesis was not even mentioned back then. A third reason can be added. Around the same date, the so-called Roswell crash occurred. Allegedly, a UFO crash-landed in Roswell, New Mexico accidentally. Let me be clear about this. The misinformation episode that took place in 1995 and used the filmed autopsy of a Roswell alien was aimed at discrediting this serious and embarrassing Roswell affair in an elaborate scheme. Do not forget that Roswell was the first nuclear armament site. The clumsy denial of the UFO crash, by showing a Project Mogul weather balloon as an alleged explanation, concealed the real interests of link- ing ETs and nuclear weapons at a time when nuclear development pro- grams soared in the framework of a costly and global geopolitical strategy. Endangering such a strategy in the middle of the Cold War was unthinkable. Therefore, a killjoy UFO had to be eliminated from a waa the public debate. A series of events thus came to trouble the minds just at the end of a horribly destructive war. Nuclear weapons marked the beginning of 27