Photo of the Roswell Crash?

[imitator]

The internet is buzzing over this clip that some are claiming shows the Roswell crash site:
https://www.reddit.com/r/UFOs/comments/1...ell_crash/

One commenter jokes: "Pretty big crater for a weather balloon!"






These images are from a video that is part of the National Archives’ Moving Images Relating to “The Roswell Reports” Source Data Research Files, 1946–1996 (NAID 566658), created by the U.S. Air Force as part of its investigations into the 1947 Roswell incident.

National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA): Original Video Source: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/326996858




After digging into it, I believe this comes from an old DVD NARA video titled:
The Roswell Mystery, v.17 [Unedited, silent & sound]

The full version is ~51 minutes long and was even sold on DVD:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000UWTHFC



It looks like the internet has just rediscovered this video...

Here is a 15 year old clip of it on YouTube, notice it says v.12:

[DanZarfati]

I have seen this, but is the guarantee?

[BeyondKnowledge]

To make that crater, the ship would have been totally vaporized. Ether from the energy of the impact or the engines detonating. There would be nothing but dust in the air left.

[imitator]

[SecretSquirrel81]

To make that crater, the ship would have been totally vaporized. Ether from the energy of the impact or the engines detonating. There would be nothing but dust in the air left.

That's assuming, of course, that the ship is made from materials that would vaporise, or that it doesn't have some form of shields that would protect it from impact.

[ArMaP]

It comes from an official U.S. Air Force archive, which gives it way more weight than most of what floats around online.

Not really.

Being in an official archive only means the owner of the archive thought it was relevant and should be kept, it doesn't mean they agree with it or that they were the producers, it may even be classified as "baseless speculation" or "hoax".

Is there a real archival record for that video? If there is it should name the producer and (maybe) how they got them.

[midicon]

That's assuming, of course, that the ship is made from materials that would vaporise, or that it doesn't have some form of shields that would protect it from impact.

I'm sure it was made of tough stuff like balsa wood and tin foil. We all know those can withstand anything.

[BeyondKnowledge]

That's assuming, of course, that the ship is made from materials that would vaporise, or that it doesn't have some form of shields that would protect it from impact.

If it were made of such material, why was it damaged at all?

If it had such shields, why did the planet stop it?

[SecretSquirrel81]

If it were made of such material, why was it damaged at all?

If it had such shields, why did the planet stop it?

I didn't say it was indestructible.

TBF, I'm not saying that it did have either of these things, or that it was even real, just that you can't assume it would be vaporised on impact when you don't know what it's made from or what defences it has.

Things falling from space have created bigger craters and not been vaporised - meteorites, etc. If they can partially survive, then theoretically, something could be manufactured that could also partially survive.

[Halfswede]

To make that crater, the ship would have been totally vaporized. Ether from the energy of the impact or the engines detonating. There would be nothing but dust in the air left.

That's not really how crashes or explosions work.  Nothing gets 'vaporized'. It's just a physical crater (empty now), where whatever debris field was there has been cleaned up.  There is no crash or detonation that vaporizes or turns things to dust even with things like missile strikes.  The object breaks into various pieces creating a debris field.  Some pieces are large, others not. Even if you filled your car to the brim with explosives, there would be doors and twisted metal somewhere out there after the blast.