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Chapter 198: The Roswell Incident
🕑 Added 2025-02-01 15:27:25 +0000 UTCJosh did not turn down the Army's Rebirth Soldier Project.
After all, the project didn't cost the CIA anything—just two super soldier corpses. Plus, it earned him a favor from the military, so why not?
As for whether the bodies would go rogue like in the movies, he wasn't worried. With his resources, he had nothing to worry about. And if anything went wrong, it would be the military's problem, not his.
Sure enough, within half a month, it was time for the military to return the favor.
"Josh, take a look at this case the president just signed!" One afternoon, Fletcher, the director, visited Josh at his home to "report" on work.
Although Josh effectively controlled the CIA from behind the scenes, he did so mainly to gain another source of information and to make things more convenient. He didn't want to sit in an office all day. Going in once every three days was a stretch.
Going to work felt like going to a funeral, and sitting in an office felt like being in prison. Why should Josh put himself through that every day?
Besides, the entire CIA was under his control from top to bottom. So what if he slacked off a little? If anything important happened, whether it was the Director, Ophelia, Carter, or any of the other department heads, they would all report to him.
Josh took the file from Fletcher and opened it. Next to the documents were several newspapers.
"The Air Force found a flying saucer in Roswell? And they even put it in the papers? Are they stupid, or is it the local government? Or is this just a prank?" Josh skimmed through the documents, speechless.
In his original timeline, the Roswell Incident had been a hot topic in the United States for decades. It referred to the alleged UFO crash in Roswell, New Mexico, in 1947.
One day in 1947, the Roswell Daily Record suddenly published a report that the military had found a flying saucer in the area. (Tl/N; Still can't believe this is true)
The news was quickly picked up by the New York Times and other major newspapers, and spread worldwide through radio broadcasts. It caused a huge public uproar, but the U.S. government insisted that it was just a crashed military surveillance balloon.
Photos of alleged alien bodies and spaceship wreckage were widely circulated.
The event became one of the most famous UFO cases in history, with countless theories surrounding it.
However, the most reliable explanation came from a scientist who worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the late 1940s. In 2001, she revealed that the Roswell incident had nothing to do with aliens at all. Instead, the U.S. military had been conducting a series of secret high-altitude human experiments, including biochemical tests, medical research, and aerial experiments on human subjects.
The strange "alien" bodies found at Roswell were actually severely disabled humans used as test subjects in these experiments.
To prevent the truth from coming out, the government created an elaborate alien cover story to mislead the public.
Given the history of the U.S. military, this possibility is very likely.
However, in his past life, Josh was neither an American nor a UFO enthusiast, so he'd never heard of this incident.
Even if he had, he wouldn't take it lightly.
Maybe in his original timeline, the Roswell incident was just a cover-up for human experimentation. But in this Marvel-like world, things might be different.
"It's not a prank. Our intelligence agents have confirmed it, and the military has admitted it. It was indeed a UFO, and the bodies are real. But the explosion was so powerful that there is hardly any large debris left. Most of the bodies were burned to a crisp, making them almost worthless," Fletcher explained. "The President just wants us to go down there, do a formal investigation and write a report."
"In that case, let Captain Carter handle it. She's getting restless with all this free time," Josh nodded. New Mexico? Good thing the timing is off—if a hammer fell from the sky, that would be a real headache. He wasn't ready to deal with Asgard yet.
But if this was an alien incident, what race would it be? Kree? Skrulls? Certainly not Superman or Saiyans, right?Josh's mind began to spin.
- - -
New Mexico, Roswell.
A young woman, who looked to be in her twenties, walked down the street, curiously observing her surroundings. Her unusual presence caught the attention of passersby.
She was wearing a tight, full-body leather suit that seemed out of place for the time. While it covered her completely, it also accentuated her curves, making her stand out even more.
Fortunately, this was a white neighborhood, and in broad daylight, no one dared to cause trouble.
Of course, if someone did try, they would be the unlucky ones.
This beautiful young woman, who looked no different from an ordinary human, was actually an alien.
Her name was Mar-Vell, from Hala, a member of the Kree Starforce and a brilliant scientist.
Yes, she was the future mentor of Carol Danvers, the woman who would become Captain Marvel.
At the time, however, Mar-Vell was still young-only in her forties, which wasn't strange at all. The Kree had much longer life spans than humans, so forty-something still looked like twenty-something.
That's why even decades later, in 1989, when Captain Marvel was created, she still looked like a middle-aged woman.
Recently, she had been chasing fugitives wanted by the Kree Empire in the C-Sector of their territory. During the hunt, she had unwittingly followed them to this primitive planet, marked C-53 on the Empire's star charts.
Yes, the spaceship that crashed on a farm a few days ago—and the dead aliens—were the fugitives she had been after. She had been the one to shoot down their ship.
But these Kree refugees weren't Skrulls, just escaped slaves.
As one of the most powerful empires in the universe, the Kree had conquered and enslaved countless civilizations over the years—not just the Skrulls.
In the original story, for example, Star-Lord's adoptive father, Yondu, had once been a Kree war slave in his youth.
After eliminating the fugitives, Mar-Vell didn't leave Earth immediately.
The C-Sector was already a remote part of the Kree Empire, and Earth was on the very edge of it—practically outside their territory.
According to star charts, the last time the Kree officially visited this planet was thousands of years ago.
But after pursuing the fugitives here, Mar-Vell found that Earth had developed into a relatively advanced civilization. They even had man-made satellites.
This piqued her curiosity.
So she decided to stay and explore the planet for a while.
