大学英语四级阅读：美公开UFO档案 揭秘外星人造访美国

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　美公开UFO档案 揭秘外星人造访美国 　　Secret FBI files have been released detailing how US officials saw a UFO explode over Utah – and aliens land near Roswell in New Mexico。
( l9 D. `/ p  m) Q$ w# A9 ~　　A declassified document from 1949 tells how three men, on patrols miles apart, each reported seeing a UFO break up over mountains north of Salt Lake City。
6 w- y1 g/ w( f. J　　Their extraordinary accounts were sent to Edgar Hoover, the director of the FBI, in a memo titled "Flying Discs"。
　　The file said that a policeman, a highway patrolman and an army guard all "saw a silver coloured object high up approaching the mountains at Sardine Canyon" that "appeared to explode in a rash of fire."
　　"Several residents [reported] seeing what appeared to be two aerial explosions, followed by falling object," it said。
+ p( u2 e- [* u　　The file is one of thousands of previously unreleased files that the FBI has made public in a new online resource called The Vault。
8 l- g$ x3 ^' p- P　　Among them is a 1950 statement from special agent Guy Hottel, which seems to provide evidence for the theory that aliens landed at Roswell, New Mexico。
& W* ?* E) i' N, J- b+ ^: t& N6 w　　In the memo, Agent Hottel said that "three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico"。
& F2 H' L; B! s8 y2 P　　He wrote that the flying saucers were "described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter."
# R) w' N8 A& y; M  v8 v" y, Q　　In a statement that is reminiscent of the hit 1990s TV programme The X-Files, he went on to describe the alien life forms inside the UFOs。
　　"Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall," he wrote。
1 {/ c+ g4 D& R2 Y0 k　　The bodies were "dressed in a metallic cloth of a very fine texture. Each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots."
8 S1 \1 Z) P" L4 G7 D6 B9 s　　Agent Hottel suggested that the UFOs had crashed in New Mexico because high-powered government radar had interfered with their operating systems。
4 j! \: t2 @' E0 `　　The release of the files are likely to intensify the claims of conspiracy theorists who believe the US government covered up alien landings。
4 F( n4 `# Q7 Q　　美国联邦调查局(FBI)近日解密了一批文件，其中详细记录了美国犹他州不明飞行物(UFO)爆炸事件，以及新墨西哥州外星人着陆的“罗兹威尔”事件。
' c6 M% V' v* M( {4 G' S2 a$ `　　一份1949年的解密文档称，当时有三名相隔数英里的巡逻人员都报告称发现一架UFO坠毁在盐湖城北部的山间。
1 k' @; }, ]+ ]& Y% b- f! `: t% P  u　　这些非同寻常的陈述被呈报给时任FBI局长埃德加•胡佛，这份备忘录名为“飞盘”。
* ~( R8 _# n! J; @1 s. a8 C  O　　备忘录称，当时有一位警察、一位高速公路巡逻员、和一位卫兵都看到了“一个银色飞碟在高空中向萨丁峡谷的山间飞去，似乎突然起火爆炸了。”
) J, i2 n. q: v0 N' W) K　　文档称：“据报道，几位当地居民都曾目睹两次空中爆炸后飞碟坠毁。”
% |' O8 c1 ]; T3 j2 @( A　　FBI近日在新开设的在线档案室“穹顶”中披露了数千份绝密文件，这起事件是其中之一。
2 s+ w5 O& s: o% U' S" e7 O! z　　其中还有一份特工盖•豪特尔在1950年的陈述，为外星人驾驶UFO在新墨西哥州的罗兹威尔失事坠毁的说法提供了证据。
　　在这份备忘录中，特工豪特尔称，“新墨西哥州发现了三架所谓的飞碟。”
　　他写道，飞碟“据描述为圆形，中间凸起，直径大约50英尺。”
- S( g' k" L. L5 i; r0 I　　在另一份陈述中，他继续描述着UFO中外星生命的模样，这让人不禁想起上世纪90年代的热播剧《X档案》。
. Y" b% M% U* t7 w; B4 [　　他写道：“每架UFO中都有三位人形驾驶员，不过他们只有大约三英尺高。”
+ H, e' ]0 k9 Q0 n3 {: p. i　　外星人“身穿金属制的衣物，材质相当好，身上还都绑得紧紧的，就像穿着高速飞行员和试飞员所穿的加速服。”
, X4 N( f% I4 Z: p　　盖•豪特尔认为，这几架UFO已经在新墨西哥州坠毁，因为政府在附近架设的高能雷达干扰了飞碟的控制系统。
　　文件的披露很可能会给阴谋论者们的观点提供支持，他们认为美国政府掩盖了外星人造访的真相。