Google doodle celebrates Roswell

July 8, 2013 • 6:09 am

There’s a really nice Google doodle today, even though it celebrates woo: the 66th anniversary of the Roswell Incident, in which a UFO supposedly crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. That led to a bunch of conspiracy theories about how the U.S. Government covered up the incident, including autopsies of the aliens that were aboard the spacecraft.

Well, most of us know about this, but you can still have fun by clicking on the Google doodle, which is an animated game. After the spaceship crashes, move the cursor to help the stranded alien find the piece of his missing spaceship and put them back together.

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Here’s a screenshot of what you’ll see; click on the triangle to play.

Screen shot 2013-07-08 at 8.03.55 AM

41 thoughts on “Google doodle celebrates Roswell”

  1. Spooky Mulder wanted to believe. Didn’t seem to work out for him. Though I hear from the Internet that Elvis is alive and well, living in Roswell, New Mexico.

    If it’s on the Internet, it must be true. Right?

    1. One time at Jesus Christ camp, I heard someone, one time, put something on the Internet that wasn’t true. I prayed about it in after words, though.

  3. I loved it, but I don’t know if I ever found a use for the horseshoe on the rope by the time I sailed off in my reconstituted flying saucer.
    🙂

    2. It was very cool but I always feel like I’m hyper stupid when I try to play these games. I got as far as the horse and stopped. It’s God of War all over again (I got stuck there too and stopped playing years ago). 🙂

    3. Anybody got a link to the solution that shows all the toys? I am no good at these things, I just want to see it!

          1. Sure, rub it in. Want to get me unstuck from Gods of War from 5 years ago? 😉

          2. Okay, walk-through for those who asked:
            (I may have done it in a weird order, but it worked)

            As you leave the crash site, pick up the first shiny piece of the crashed craft.
            Come down the hill and go left to the cow.
            Take the rope tethering the cow.
            Go right until you get to the barn.
            Climb ladder to pick up horse shoe.
            Pick up bag of corn.
            Go further right & feed corn to chicken
            Pick up feather as souvenir.
            Go back to cow and jump down the hole in front of it.
            Pick up watering can.
            Use can on plant to enable it to grow.
            Climb up plant to escape hole.
            Go back to barn
            Use can on horse (Yeah, me either)
            Watch horse grow
            Catch 2nd shiny piece of spacecraft that falls off roof.
            Walk right to the house.
            Play with door bell (although nothing seems to happen)
            Climb tree at far end.
            Notice 3rd shiny piece of spacecraft in bed with human.
            Climb down tree
            Use watering can on tree
            Climb back up tree
            Grab 3rd piece
            Go home to the stars!

          3. Oh wait – use the feather to tickle the human’s nose on your second foray up the embiggened tree.
            That makes them drop the shiny item.

          5. I couldn’t figure out how to do anything to the sleeping human, but when I persistently stood there ringing the doorbell over and over, there was a loud crash in the barn and the shiny item suddenly appeared 🙂

          6. LOL, I thought the bag of corn was a pillow. No wonder I suck at this.

          7. LOL…well…I’m a gamer so I was in my element. World of Warcraft, Age Of Conan, etc. Haven’t heard of Gods of War!

          10. A really old one on the PS2 & the PSP. That’s how long I’ve been stuck. 🙂

  4. I once met a guy who had designed some of the Statehood Quarters. Forgotten which actual ones are his now, but he had a notebook of ones that didn’t win, along with some humorous ones. For NM, he had the outline of the state with a mushroom cloud inside.

  5. So, Aliens from another solar system have the technology to navigate to planet Earth.
    On the way avoiding black holes,planets, moons, suns, space rubble of all kinds. Then, when they get to earth they hit a telephone pole in New Mexico? Yeh right.

    3. I absolutely do not believe that aliens have visited us. It makes no sense one you have even a rudimentary understanding of the vastness of space and the power/time it takes to traverse even near-ish points of interest. I’m also of the opinion that if we were in fact being visited it would likely be a Very Bad Thing for us humans.
      That being said, and I am opening myself up for a lot of ridicule, I saw SOMETHING when I was 10 years old and living in Grass Valley, CA. We lived in a little trailer, and my mom was woken up by bright lights…she came and woke me up and told me to look out the little window next to my camper bed. And there it was…no sound at all, the pines and hills lit up like daytime. It was more hexagon shaped and there were lights around the center. The light from the bottom was SOOO bright yet you could look right at it..it was sitting there above the trees..motionless. I was absolutely terrified. This was NOT OK with my little brain…I screamed and buried my face in the pillow…then looked up again in time to see it zoom from a stationary object (it was not that far away..hard to guess but I would say less than 1/8 of a mile) to a pinpoint of light, soundlessly, in SECONDS..maybe three. That scared me more than anything, that soundless, extreme acceleration. I don’t know what it was…I have always wanted to know. Every time I think maybe it was such and such I remember watching it zoom away…I don’t know…I just don’t know…as a skeptic this has bothered me for so long…sure it could be some top secret government technology…but that’s almost as much as a cop out as little green men. Interestingly, my mom and I didn’t speak of it for decades..and a few years ago I asked her to recount her version of it…to see what time had done to our memories of it…totally expecting something different…she recounted it exactly as I remembered it. If someone else told me this story, I would be highly skeptical and attribute their experience into any number of common natural phenomenon…oh..I believe it was natural…just not anything common…I know personal experience is not evidence for anything…but I know what I saw was rare and I want to know what the hell that was. *Hides under desk now*.

      1. I’m also of the opinion that if we were in fact being visited it would likely be a Very Bad Thing for us humans.

        Indeed, about the only reason to travel to another star is to plug it into your power grid.

        It takes a significant fraction of the output of a star to get from one to another in a timely manner with any meaningful amount of cargo, after all, so you’re not going to be able to do it in the first place until you’re already capable of consuming stellar-scale energies. And there’re lots of much more interesting things you can do with that kind of energy than just visit the neighborhood.

        As to your experience in Grass Valley…it makes me think that perhaps whatever you saw was a projection of some kind, and not at all necessarily one caused by humans or, if caused by humans, intentionally so.

        You could point a searchlight at a cloud and make the spotlight appear to hover and zoom and make right-angle turns and do all other sorts of impossible things if it was anything other than just a spot of light.

        And water vapor and crystals can easily create hexagonal-shaped structures.

        One can imagine some sort of artificial light source, even including a spotlight or work lights or headlights, creating weird effects in the sky. Or sunlight reflecting off of something, or any number of variations on the theme. It could also have been a mirage, where atmospheric effects cause weird reflections and magnifications of distant scenes.

        I don’t doubt that you experienced something quite unusual, but I completely agree with you that “unknown and spooky” doesn’t equate to “popular fantastic explanation of the generation.”

        Cheers,

        b&

        1. It very well could have been a projection or mirage of some sort. I have to concede that.
          It wasn’t until just a few years ago that I realized my ability to recall details and events from early childhood is slightly beyond the norm. I remember details from infancy…be it a ceiling or something my mom wore, what have you. So when I am describing something that happened when I was 10, it’s not as “distant” as it might be for others. I only share that because when I am describing what I witnessed, I am not discarding your suggestions or insisting it was something supernatural – I am only emphasizing…grr…my words are failing me…so exhausted right now…I am emphasizing the clarity and substance of the object. Granted, memory twists and shifts, bends and exaggerates. I have always taken that into account. What I witnessed was very defined, in shape and structure, with a single row of sharp individual lights around the center and a very strong (god I hate to say it) beam of bluish-white light projecting from the bottom. There was also some sort of wiry loop on the top of the thing. The beam directly lit the tress below it as if it were the noon sun, only bluish instead of yellowish. I could see individual branches. In the middle of a crystal clear summer night. In a barely populated mountain town. This was no ambient glow. It scares the shit out of me even talking about it all these years later. I’m self-conscious to have shared this, but very grateful that I’ve been treated so politely, because I know I would be rolling my eyes if I were reading this from another poster. On a side note, my mom was thrilled with it..she was hoping to see more lol. She felt horribly that I was so scared…she had assumed with my interest in space and science that I would be as excited as her. I was not excited, I was screaming “NOOOOO” into my pillow, yet couldn’t help but lift my head again in time to watch it whoosh away to the faintest pinpoint of light as I stared in open-mouthed terror.

          1. I should make clear: I’m not at all questioning that you have very powerful memories of the event. And, while we both agree that it’s unlikely that your memories are a perfect match for the experience, I would also suggest that it’s reasonable that they’re a fair representation. (Perhaps not, of course, in all sorts of plausibly-imaginable ways, but chances are excellent that what you’re describing today is very similar to what you would have described the next morning, at the very least in terms of the broad outlines.)

            We can very reasonably rule out an alien spaceship as the explanation for the same reason we can rule out angels or ghosts or Olympians or the like. But eliminating possibilities only goes so far in terms of identifying what happened, and there’s still plenty of room for all sorts of really interesting possibilities.

            One thing that really stands out to me is your description of a lack of sound. That suggests to me that, whatever was causing the phenomenon was very distant.

            Also, the bluish-white light you describe is very consistent with that produced by a full moon.

            Again, I’m not at all being dismissive of your experience — I’m just tossing out elements that could possibly add up to a less fantastic explanation than E.T. phoning home.

            b&

          2. You have been very respectful and not at all dismissive. I really appreciate it. It bothers me greatly that I will likely never know what it was. Over the years I have looked into hundreds of possibilities (like weather phenomenon, etc.). I would LOVE to be able to push the mystery into its correct mystery-shaped hole and forget about it. I have yet to find the right hole. I could shave off a bit of it to force it into that “Venus at sunset”, “full moon in clouds” slot, but then I’m unfairly shedding information, simplifying what I experienced in order to make it comfortable for my mind. I can say it wasn’t the moon because I spent years of my childhood in those forests and wouldn’t have been randomly startled by moonlight. I can say it wasn’t the moon because moonlight doesn’t come down in a tube of light and illuminate the trees below as if it were midday. I saw the green of the pine needles and the red bark of the pine trees. You don’t see color even in the brightest moonlight. At least not vivid colors. If you think about that for a second, imagine that intense bright light in the middle of nowhere..no city lights, I think you can imagine how it would be startling. So, mystery it remains. I have wondered if it couldn’t have been some type of advanced aircraft…maybe a totally silent helicopter? But why would it be out there? Not to mention this was 30 years ago – haven’t seen anything like it yet. Anyway, thanks for listening and thanks for the suggestions. I certainly don’t want to be dismissive to you in the least, I just wanted you to know that I have looked into much of this myself and just can’t seem to match the observation with a solution.

      2. I absolutely do not believe that aliens have visited us. It makes no sense one you have even a rudimentary understanding of the vastness of space and the power/time it takes to traverse even near-ish points of interest.

        I think you’re jumping to conclusions. The galaxy is billions of years old. Even if a spacefaring civilization expanded at a very slow rate there has been ample time for it to have spread throughout the galaxy. Yet we don’t see any evidence of them. This is the Fermi Paradox.

        1. I am jumping to conclusions. And…? I’m not sure what your point is. Are you saying that you’re closing the book on the possibility of intelligent life elsewhere in the universe because they haven’t streaked us?

          1. No, he’s saying that life outside Earth almost certainly exists, and the fact that we haven’t seen any evidence of it means that either there really is no life out there, or something fishy is going on. Follow the link he posted and you’ll understand. =)

      3. I have to say that I’m split on the issue of UFOs (of alien origin). I still maintain skepticism, very much so. However, if you actually learn a bit about the record of incidents, often involving military personnel, astronauts, and others not readily dismissible, you might begin to think there’s something there, or at least something that doesn’t deserve to be rejected outright.

        Your account is actually rather similar to others that I’ve heard about.

        For instance, this event that happened in 1980 at a US air force base in England:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident

        In particular, the silence and rapid motion you recount are classic features of UFO encounters.

    1. Just go to Google.com instead of Google.uk and you will see what the day’s poison is.

      1. It doesn’t work for me – the URL is forwarded to “https://www.google.com/”, but I have just had the standard Google screen all day. And that has happened with google.com before.

        But now I find that if I put in google.co.uk, I do get the Doodle. Weird.

        1. At the bottom right hand corner of the standard google search engine page, there should be a link to google.com if it is not your standard location. If you click on that it won’t redirect to the Google that matches your IP address/ router.

  8. I haz a t-shirt from the little museum in Roswell that commemorates this “event”!

    My spouse knows me REALLY well.

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