Persuasive Essay

English 101C (50)
Prof. Walsh
6/25/2008
Persuasive/Argument Essay
Abdul Borders

An unknown glowing object soars through the air resembling a shooting star viewed by countless civilians during the stormy night of July 1947. Unable to sustain altitude, this strange saucer-shaped craft crashed near a ranch in Roswell, New Mexico. William “Mac” Brazel, owner of the ranch, discovered debris from the spacecraft which is some 70 miles north of Roswell. Brazel tells the Roswell Daily Record that he and his son saw a “large area of bright wreckage made up of rubber strips, tinfoil, a rather tough paper and sticks”. Later Brazel and his family retrieved the rest of the wreckage. Finding out about “flying discs”, Brazel wondered if what he found came from a “flying disc”. He decided to hide the wreckage under a brush and the next day he saw Sheriff Wilcox and told him rather confidentially that he found a “flying disc”.
After Brazel told Sheriff Wilcox, Wilcox called the Roswell Army Air Field (RAAF) and Major Jesse Marcel and “a man in plainclothes” accompanied Brazel to the ranch to look for more debris.   Marcel though it was a weather device at first since there was rubber and tinfoil, typical weather device material, but when he and Brazel tried to reassemble the pieces they could not.   The next morning Marcel delivered the debris to the RAAF’s headquarters and the debris was said to be from a weather balloon since the entire parts matched the general description of a weather balloon. Now, many say that the parts that Marcel found on the ranch were weather balloon parts, but they were placed there as a cover up for the real UFO parts. Marcel claimed to have posed next to the real parts and that another group of people posed with the weather balloon parts.
It has been mentioned in the book UFO Crash at Roswell by Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt that the real UFO crash recovery not only contained real unexplainable parts, but they were supposedly bodies...