Roswell: In July of 1947, an unidentified flying object had crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico. It was said that the UFO was actually a military air force surveillance balloon but many believe otherwise. They usually think that it was an alien aircraft that had crash landed that week. Moreover, there have been new claims that there not only had been one UFO but two actually. The Air Force maintains that they were using this new weather balloon for a top secret project named Mogul. The 509th Bomb Group which was the recovery team, believed that it was a flying saucer initially because of how similar the components were. This was sent as a report and soon published in the Roswell Daily Report, gaining fame from there. Whether or not this incident was simply a weather balloon or an extraterrestrial saucer is still being debated today.
Moon Landing: Looking at why the moon landing may be so controversial in terms of politics, it had been during the times of Richard Nixon, and this time involved a time filled with corruption and deception. But Nixon's time had been the first time that a person had actually landed on the moon. But what gives it most of its popularity would be the pictures at the time. Below is a picture of Apollo 11 and a portion of what seems to be the moon. Many theorists believe that this picture is false as they present the argument that there are multiple light sources. But in space, there's only one, and that's the sun. They argue that because of the how crooked the shadows are, it is not a legitimate picture of the moon landing on Apollo.
Obama's Birth Certificate: This conspiracy, if you could call it one is more recent. There have been doubts about President Obama's birth place, which some people believe it is not Hawaii but actually Kenya. If this were actually true, it violates the U.S. Constitution as only a person who has been born in the United States can become a president. One of the people who is notable in trying to get Obama to release his birth certificate would be Donald Trump, who is one of the people who claims it is fake. But in April of 2011, the White House responded by releasing the president's birth certificate. below is a picture, and the reason that there has been controversy, has been most likely that his father had actually been born in Kenya, leading people to believe that it is possible that the president could not be a legitimate citizen of the United States.
To some extend I always enjoyed a good conspiracy, but sometimes I feel that some conspiracy are too far fetch. Take for example the moon landing one I feel the whole idea that someone did not really land on the moon is far fetch. As if it was faked I would assume that it would be proven by now and also it doesn't really matter if it was the so called first time as without a doubt people have been successful in landing on the moon.
ReplyDeleteCool post. Did people think that the moon landing was simply a hoax meant to show the world that the US was more technologically advanced than other nations? Also, I remember Myth Busters did an episode where they scientifically determined the validity of the conspiracy and found that the shadows were a result of the Sun and not fake.
ReplyDeleteIt's great to still see people believe in stupid things like this for a good laugh. These conspiracies ignore many other facts like the actual launch of the rocket. Great post.
ReplyDeleteI think I remember reading or hearing somewhere that Obama released his birth certificate right before the announcement about Osama's death was made in order to get that "controversy" over with so they could focus on this really big achievement.
ReplyDeleteAs for the moon landing, I think people thought it was a hoax because of the whole competition with the Soviets and I wouldn't be surprised to find out that the Soviets had a hand with starting the hoax rumor.
I find these conspiracies theories very interesting. I find that alot of the time conspiracies are based on the imaginations of just a few people. I also think that conspiracies alot of the time go unproven because they are based on such little actually evidence and alot of the time are exaggerations. Like with Obama's birth certificate, people are trying argue about one thing that they believe in, but there is really not evidence.
ReplyDeleteI think that the reason conspiracy theories really only get attention because of the snowball effect. People will hear a string of small doubts and semi-suspicious things and figure that because there are so many odd things going on at once, the conspiracy theory has validity. If people took the time to actually do research or look into some of the conspiracy theories that they believe in, I think many of them wouldn't be able to effectively substantiate them in any way or form.
ReplyDeleteAlso, to add more detail to the Moon Landing conspiracy theory, people believe that the entire moon landing was a hoax orchestrated by NASA and some other organizations!
ReplyDeleteApparently, conspiracy theorists believe that the U.S. didn't have the technology at the time to pull off such a feat...:
http://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crime-fighting/10-conspiracy-theories.htm
There are many people in the United States that believe the government is involved in covert acts that deteriorate the lives and rights of its citizens. One example of an declassified instance where the government committed human rights violations against its own citizens is in CIA's Project MKUltra, where illegal methods were used to observe changes in the behaviors or human test subjects. This is commonly known as the CIA "Mind Control" project.
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