Roswell has been at the heart of the UFO scene since July 1947 when the military sensationally announced in a press release it had found the remains of a crashed flying saucer in the desert nearby.

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the “crashed craft”, which along with the wreckage were then taken to a top-secret US military base.

The 47-page dossier, said to be drafted in the 1980s, contains a six-page report on the Roswell incident, detailing how the UFO came down on July 2 or 3 1947, and four decomposing alien bodies were recovered two miles from the crash site a week later.

Nick Pope, who investigated the UFO phenomena for the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) until 2009, described them as “fake with a capital F”.

Mr Pope, who now speaks at UFO conferences across the globe, told Express.co.uk: “These documents are completely and utterly bogus.

“As with previous such documents that have surfaced in the US, I suspect they’ve been hoaxed by someone on the fringes of the UFO community, playing an elaborate practical joke to see if they can put one over on the true believers.”

He spent 21 years in the MoD and said he knew how genuine documents were prepared.

He said: “The language and the wider Œfeel¹ of these UFO documents is just plain wrong.

“It¹s as if someone was playing buzzword bingo with all the words and phrases that excite UFO believers, and throwing in some New Age philosophy for good measure.

But there are those who think the US Government was actually behind it.

Tom Livesey, posted on Mr Randle’s blog: “I hope Nick Redfern is wrong and that this is disinformation not a hoax.

“With documents such as this I suspect a fishing exercise, whereby people on the other side – who may be as perplexed as we are – put information out to see if the internet can come up with answers through pooled intelligence.

“The documents must be poorly written and obviously fake, or disclosure would actually occur which is not the intent.”

Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, claims to have obtained the document from a known but unnamed military source who sat on them for years.

She wrote on her website it had been passed to nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman, who is a long term Roswell believer and Roswell investigator, and so far he had reported nothing to say they were faked.

A statement on the midnightinthedesert.com website said: “Heather Wade received documents last night from a trusted source.

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“Stanton Friedman is going to continue examining these documents for authenticity, but at this time we can find no evidence of forgery.”

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, said previous “majestic 12” documents which surfaced were regarded as fake.

But, he was impressed by the lengths any hoaxer went to if the new report was bogus.

He added: “The amount of documentation and the details in them, including this ‘latest’

document, does show a considerable amount of effort and knowledge has been expended to prove the presence of aliens in our midst.”

He even floated the conspiracy theory of Government insiders releasing the false documents.

He added: “It could be part of a US government disinformation project or a hoax to try to smoke out the truth from the authorities.

“Certainly they are more fake than fact.”

UFO publisher Philip Mantle claimed it was irrefutable they were fake, as they referred to a fictitious location in Nevada.

He posted on Facebook: “The final nail in the coffin is. . . according to these documents, the SECRET MJ-12 HQ is under Flat Rock, Nevada, a fictional town invented for Michael Crichton’s “Andromeda Strain” novel!”

He said on Facebook: “While I don’t know who faked those new MJ12 documents, there’s not a chance this is disinformation by a government agency.

“This is probably the work of someone in Ufology, who is just waiting for certain UFO researchers to endorse the documents – and then the hoaxer will come forward and explain how and why he did it.”

He said with the 70th anniversary of the Roswell incident next month it was perfect timing.

He added: “I am looking forward to seeing certain ufological fence-sitters who will 100 percent refuse to denounce the documents.

“Why won’t they denounce them? Because they fear they won’t get booked at next year’s conference here, or conference there, and are fearful of not being in with the ‘in-crowd’ of Ufology anymore.”

He said: “The writing does not sound as if it came from a government source, and without names, without government agencies, without any way to check things out, this just doesn¹t seem to be authentic.”

Mr Randle blogged about Ms Wade¹s source writing: “I did ask Heather Wade about the source, or sources, and she didn¹t give me names, only that they were ex-military and had possessed the documents for a very long time.

“She didn¹t know which government agency had originated them, and there seemed no way to verify them through government sources.”

The Paradigm Research Group (PRG), set up to lobby the US Government to end an alleged truth embargo which covers up the existence of aliens on Earth, is sitting on the fence.

It has described the documents as important, but accepts they could be fake.

It released a statement saying: “Over the coming weeks PRG will work closely with leading researchers into the history of the truth embargo and ET related government documents to determine the quality of this evidence.”

It gave four possible explanations:

*Government disinformation

*Fully legitimate government documents

*A hoax by a debunker

*A hoax by a believer

It added: “The first two options are the most likely and about equal in probability.”

Steve Bassett, PRG founder, later said on Facebook: “Whatever the status of this document – real, hoax or disinformation – PRG’s principal concern is that top researchers in

the extraterrestrial phenomena research field be the first to assess this document and to the extent possible run it to ground before the debunkers and trolls do their thing.

“The message is this to either government disinformation entities or knucklehead hoaxers: this is not 1960 or 1970 or 1980 or 1990.

“It is 2017 and disinformation and hoaxes will be engaged immediately and your misguided effort will amount to little.”

The document is said to have been given to Heather Wade, host of US late-night online paranormal radio show Midnight in the Desert, from a known source who has not been named.

Many UFO experts have branded the document fake, but the release has set the conspiracy theory world on fire, with others convinced it could be genuine.

The document claims a highly secretive team of top scientists, government officials and military leaders – all now dead – was set up in the wake of the Roswell incident to investigate the “captured flying sauce remains” and “four dead aliens” and assess the risk to the planet of “visiting aliens“.

The document claims the group was called Majestic 12 and set up on the orders of President Harry S Truman, in the wake of Roswell.

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*Detlev Wulf Bronk, another US scientist, educator, who died aged 78 in 1975, and was recognised for developing biophysics as an established science.

*Vannevar Bush, an American engineer and inventor and science, who led the US Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II.

It carried out military research and development. He died aged 84 in 1974.

*Donald Howard Menzel, who died in 1976 aged 75, who was one of the first theoretical astronomers and astrophysicists in the US, and discovered the physical properties of the solar chromosphere, the chemistry of stars, the atmosphere of Mars, and the nature of gaseous nebulae.

*Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, a US Air Force general, its second Chief of Staff, and second Director of Central Intelligence, who died in 1954 aged 54.

*Nathan Farragut Twining, who died in 1982 aged 84, who was Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and during the Roswell UFO incident.

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*James Vincent Forrestal, who died in 1949 aged 57, and was the first United States Secretary of Defense.

*Gordon Gray, who died in 1982 aged 73, who was a defense and national security government official.

*Roscoe Henry Hillenkoetter, the third director of the post-World War II United States Central Intelligence Group (CIG), who died aged 85 in 1982.

*Jerome Clarke Hunsaker, who died aged 98 in 1984, and was from 1941 to 1956 chairman of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.

Seasoned UFO expert and nuclear physicist Stanton Friedman is investigating the authenticity of the document and is said to believe it could be genuine.

The Paridigm Research Group (PRG) which tries to pressure the White House to disclose documents about UFOs believes the report could be genuine, but accepts it could also be fake.

The newspaper website described it as an “eerie snap of a UFO,” and said it had been recorded as a sighting by the Filer’s Research Institute, the US-based National UFO Center, run by Major George A. Filer, who spent 20 years in the Air Force working as an intelligence officer, and is now convinced aliens exist.

The Irish Sun warded of sceptics, saying: “Before you dismiss it as a picture of the moon at night – the image was taken in broad daylight.”

It called on astronomer Eamonn Ansbro of Kingsland Observatory in Boyle, Co Roscommon, for his view.

He said he thought the latest sighting could be a new form of light known as a plasma ball.

He said: “There’s a similar ball of light that has been seen in a place called Hessdalen in Norway.

“I know the people who operate there and they have automated instrumentation that has recorded them, and we’ve had recordings here as well.

“It appears to be a new form of light in physics that we don’t know about yet, so we’re putting the physics to it to see what it’s about.”

In the latest case the anonymous photographer in County Leitrim said: “The purple haze was not there or visible to the eye. I’m confused in truth.”

The US-based Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) holds the worlds largest database of UFO sightings.

We found scores of alleged UFO pictures sent in by members of the public to MUFON that were clearly or likely to be just lens flares.

In most of these cases the person filing the report said they saw nothing at the time, but spotted the “object” after later reviewing the picture.

In many situations the lens flare only appeared in one or two of a series of images.

In one case the photographer, a man from Los Gatos California, said: “As soon as we looked at the pictures, to our amazement, we had captured a strange orb with layers of colour around it in a couple of the shots.”

He said: “Well, this picture cropped shows just a lens flare.”

He provided examples of the same lens flare produced by cameras pointed at the sun.”

He said: “I think MUFON should have a section with typical FAQs to help people to identify correctly their alleged UFO sightings.

“Of course this means people will learn to identify a ‘flying object’ before sending a report to MUFON.”

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US citizen, Stephen Bassett, executive director of the Paridigm Research Group International (PRG), has spent a week in Russia trying to convince Mr Putin of the importance of lifting an alleged “truth embargo” that stops world leaders telling the public the truth about aliens.

Mr Bassett, who is the only registered lobbyist in the US on the subject of alien disclosure, believes a conspiracy theory that the truth of aliens has been withheld due to the fear of the impact on religion and the rule of law if we all knew.

He believes the conspiracy has been in place since at least 1947 when a flying saucer allegedly crash landed at Roswell, New Mexico.

Mr Bassett was interviewed for a Russian documentary during his visit.

A PRG statement said: “During the interview, which will be broadcast in Russian in August, Bassett discussed various considerations that might prompt Russian President Vladimir Putin to make the first formal acknowledgment by a head of state regarding an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race.

“PRG believes this may be the first time anyone has made this argument on Russian media inside or outside Russia.”

He also met former Soviet and Russian military and agency officials, who are now involved in the disclosure movement.

Mr Basset said: “Since 1945 the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia have spent in excess of $40trillion contesting over political and economic ideologies, fighting proxy wars around the world and building the most dangerous threat to the human race ever conceived.

“The Cold War has never really ended with gaming, brinksmanship and destructive policies continuing from both sides.

“While humans have continued to destroy each other and the biosphere in which they live, there is a galaxy full of life waiting to be engaged.

“The extraterrestrial reality transcends politics, religion, race, and war. The embargo on this truth has accomplished nothing but delay the advancement of human civilisation.

“Any number of heads of state could end this embargo at any time, and it can’t come soon enough.

“What the keepers of the truth embargo either fail or refuse to realise is a post-disclosure world could be the bridge between the US, China and Russia that would permit the necessary geopolitical realignments setting a new course away from the seemingly permanent war economies wasting vital resources and keeping the world always on the brink.”

But the following day it retracted the statement, saying it was in fact a damaged US Air Force air balloon.

Witnesses later came forward to say there had been alien bodies within the “crashed craft”, which along with the wreckage were then taken to a top-secret military base.

It has remained the most infamous UFO conspiracy theory ever since.

But now a new book has put forward a theory that is claimed could solve the world’s biggest ever UFO mystery once and for all.

In the book, The Roswell UFO Conspiracy – Exposing A Shocking And Sinister Secret, he claims the UFO myth was pedalled by the US Government to cover up the real horrific truth.

Refern’s theory comes from an interview he conducted in 2001 while investigating Roswell.

He met with an elderly woman, who claimed to have worked at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

She claimed that shortly after the Second World War, she saw “human guinea pigs” including the Japanese, handicapped people, and prisoners.

She told of them being involved in experiments with new aircraft.

Host George Noory said: “Through her testimony, and other witnesses he’s spoken with in the ensuing years, Redfern has pieced together that the so-called aliens found in the Roswell crash, were likely these humans deemed expendable by the government, who were used to test out the rigours of high altitude exposure.”

According to the book, the experiments reportedly used technologies brought over from Japan and Germany using gigantic balloons with attached gondolas that contained the test victims.

Mr Brazel had previously said he saw two balloons come down on his ranch.

People have said that hieroglyphics were seen on some parts of the wreckage, and Redfern says it may just have been Japanese writing.

Alejandro Rojas, host of Open Minds Radio, who also interviewed Mr Redfern, said: “This theory is highly controversial among UFO researchers.”

The film, Unacknowledged, debuted on iTunes and other digital platforms on May 9, and shot straight to the number one digital documentary slot worldwide.

It is directed by Michael Mazzola and narrated by Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito.

Dr Greer got $700,000 (£543,000) through crowd funding to make it happen, and it looks at his work with The Disclosure Project, set up to try to lift an alleged “truth embargo” on the existence of aliens.

According to conspiracy theorists the remains of crashed UFOs and dead aliens are stored there.

Dr Greer said: “There’s no question in my mind that Hillary Clinton is aware of the issue.

“Her campaign chairperson John Podesta came out in favour of disclosure and said that the government should come forward with this information.

Disclosure activists had hoped “the truth would come out is she won,” but their hopes were dashed with the victory of Donald Trump who has remained silent on the often ridiculed subject.

Last year Express.co.uk told how both Hillary and Bill Clinton were involved in the so-called Rockefeller initiative with tycoon Laurance Rockefeller to try to get the Government to release all classified files about UFOs and aliens.

Dr Greer, a former emergency room doctor, was also involved in the unsuccessful project in the mid 1990s.

He said: “We were on approach and I saw six lights over the airport in absolute uniform, in a V-shape.”

Russell said they called the control tower which said its radar did not detect anything.

The actor said the pair of them gave it no further thought.

But around two years later he said he returned home to find Goldie Hawn watching a programme about the Phoenix Lights incident.

He said: “That was the most viewed UFO event. Over 20,000 people saw it.

“As I watched the show, I felt like Richard Dreyfuss from Close Encounters.”

The show then mentioned that a pilot reported seeing the UFO upon landing, and that is when Russell thought to himself, “that was me”.

He said he went to check his log book and his flight coin diced with the Phoenix Lights incident.

He said: “The fascinating part to me is that it just went, literally, out of my head. Oliver never mentioned it.

“Had I not seen that show, I would have never thought of it. That, to me, was the weird part.”

Earlier this year, claims emerged that people suffered memory loss and numbness and did not speak about the Phoenix Lights incident afterwards.

“Prior to this, Russell has not been associated with the famous Phoenix UFO sighting.”

The infamous Phoenix Lights incident happened on March 13, 1997, when five lights were seen in a formation by thousands of people over three hours from 7.30pm to 10.30pm.

The sightings took place a cross a 300-mile area from Phoenix to Tucson.

It was blamed by officials as military flares at the time.

“If you thought that this was similar, this mysterious statue also bears some resemblance to the king of pop.

“It appears that Michael had done some time travelling throughout his time.”

The theory being that Jackson went back in time to various eras and was immortalised by the ancient Egyptians and later by the painter.

The US pop legend’s death plunged the world into mourning back in 2009.

The millionaire megastar had been preparing for a comeback tour when he was found unresponsive in his LA home and declared dead at the age of 48.

Last year bizarre claims began circulating Jackson was still alive after he was spotted in a selfie taken by his daughter Paris.

But, people reacted to the new claims of time travel with amazement and hilarity.

He said: “Due to the upcoming election here in the UK and the rules relating to government departments during the pre-election period, the files will not be released until after the election.

“We are working to ensure that the files are ready for release as soon after this period as is possible: hopefully around the middle of June.”

In 2013, the MoD claimed to have released all of its UFO related formerly classified files, after beginning declassification in 2008, but it later emerged in 2014 it had held back the 18 still to be released.

In a blog about the delay, Andreas Müller, editor of Grenzwissenschaft-Aktuell.de, wrote: “Since it became known in Autumn of 2014 that contrary to the claim that the British Ministry of Defence (MoD) has released all of its formerly secret UFO-files already back in 2013, still 18 files of the MoD’s former UFO-Bureau files were held back.

“UFO-researches as well as historians look forward to the release of those files, that has been postponed repeatedly since then.

“As even the latest release date given – March 2017 – has passed.”

“When I made the official announcement of the declassification and release of these UFO files in May 2008, the thinking was the the release project would take two or three years.

“Now, over nine years later, I understand people’s frustration and can see why this delay is generating conspiracy theories.

“I hope the release of the last files can be fast-tracked after the election.”

The conspiracist produced several reports claiming to have found creatures which resembled animal species on Earth, including a giant mouse, baboons, a bear, and crabs.

He also claimed to have found fossils and skeletal remains of an ancient humanoid civilisation he claimed once inhabited the Red Planet.

But Mr Waring, who had posted each day this month, suddenly stopped on Friday, releasing his final post.

He wrote: “My last post. Thanks for the seven years of support. We have accomplished a lot together.”

He said: “The cams are still up, years later.

“We posted some amazing sightings and discoveries along those seven years and we have made it to major news sites like CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News and even New Scientist which said I was making a new area of science.”

But after saying ridicule against UFO hunters was less frequent now, he appeared to blame it for his own decision to quit.

Nigel Watson, author of the UFO Investigations Manual, told Express.co.uk: “I think he was genuinely trying to find and share UFO sightings and anomalies captured by the cameras of the International Space Station and other space vehicles, but the sheer quantity of his ‘discoveries’ undermined their quality.

“This has led to criticism and inevitably ridicule, and the sad fact is that the subject relies on sensation and entertainment rather than searching for genuine evidence or data.

“I think Scott, like many others who become involved with the UFO subject, got obsessed with seeing evidence of UFOs and aliens everywhere.

“How many people really believe his photographic evidence that everything from massive skyscrapers to squirrels exist on the surface of Mars.

He said: “Perhaps he has made a serious mistake and must disappear for a while?

“Or perhaps it’s just a break or to test the reactions of his followers.

“But if this statement is true, the UFO Community will be better without him.”

Louise Lench from UFO Newshub had this to say

I find it bizarre that a man who has spent so many years searching for and revealing the truth would suddenly just stop. This is nonsensical and goes against the very core of what Scott believed in. I believe this was not a choice that was made by him. Someone, somewhere has instigated this.

Louise Lench, UFO Newshub