Still Think Roswell Never Happened?

I was pointed in the direction of a blog today that made me laugh and think all at the same time. It may just very well answer a number of questions.

I encourage all of you to visit the Blah Blah Blog, but I have tried to reconstruct it below for your viewing pleasure.

I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. It was just too great to pass up.

January 8th, 2007

Many will recall that on July 8, 1947, witnesses claim an unidentified object with five aliens aboard crashed on a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell, New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the US Air Force and the Federal Government. However, you may NOT know that in the month of March 1948, roughly nine months after that historic day these folks were born. Coincidence? I think not.


Albert Arnold Gore, Jr


Hillary Clinton


John F. Kerry


William Jefferson Clinton


Howard Dean


Nancy Pelosi


Dianne Feinstein


Charles E. Schumer


Barbara Boxer

I hope that this information has cleared up some things that have been troubling you.



Upon some further investigation it has been learned that this post was made all in fun as only one of these people was born in the right time frame. According to Snopes.com only Al Gore fits the criteria listed above.



This amusing bit of political humor first hit our inbox in August 2006, positing a connection between July 1947 events in Roswell, New Mexico (i.e., the alleged recovery of an alien spacecraft and its occupants) and the birth nine months later of several currently prominent Democrats.

At the risk of belaboring the obvious by deconstructing humor, we'll point out that the basic premise of the joke doesn't ring true. First of all, the normal human gestation period is about 38 weeks, so children conceived on or shortly after the date of the Roswell incident (8 July 1947) would most likely have been born (assuming ordinary, full-term pregnancies) in April 1948, not March. Secondly, only one of the political figures named was born even approximately nine months after the events as Roswell.



Five of the figures listed were born well before March 1948:

Dianne Feinstein (U.S. Senator, California): 22 June 1933

Nancy Pelosi (U.S. Representative, California): 26 March 1940

Barbara Boxer (U.S. Senator, California): 11 November 1940

John Kerry (U.S. Senator, Massachusetts): 11 December 1943

Bill Clinton (former U.S. President): 19 August 1946



Two more of the persons identified were born considerably later than nine months after Roswell:

Howard Dean (former Governor of Vermont): 17 November 1948

Charles E. Schumer (U.S. Senator, New York): 23 November 1950

Hillary Rodham Clinton (U.S. Senator, New York) was born on 26 October 1947, a mere three months after the Roswell incident.



Only Al Gore, Jr. (former U.S. Vice-President), who was born on 31 March 1948, came into the world at a time that reasonably fits into the framework of this humorous premise. Quite possibly this item started out as a joke specifically about him, and others later expanded it into a joke about Democrats in general.