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。
　　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。
　　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。
　　The file is one of thousands of previously unreleased files that the FBI has made public in a new online resource called The Vault。
　　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。
" m- Z) T1 Q# y　　In the memo, Agent Hottel said that "three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in New Mexico"。
　　He wrote that the flying saucers were "described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter."
　　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。
4 I& _* ^2 N. w7 Y$ K　　"Each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only 3 feet tall," he wrote。
- Z% u9 l4 `2 m# \4 {. `) G# s　　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."
　　Agent Hottel suggested that the UFOs had crashed in New Mexico because high-powered government radar had interfered with their operating systems。
& E( Y' D6 ?( h, @5 H$ D# E　　The release of the files are likely to intensify the claims of conspiracy theorists who believe the US government covered up alien landings。
　　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。
　　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。
　　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”。
　　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。”
　　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。”
　　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。
- a$ I* {5 \  m7 ~- E1 X　　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。”
. `8 y3 q- b) Y# D　　他写道，飞碟“据描述为圆形，中间凸起，直径大约50英尺。”
　　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》。
/ m# b7 S1 u  j: p) E　　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。”
　　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。”
5 T& e0 ^, N1 a; G% ^　　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。