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CREATOR: Kyle M. Baker ( BAKER_K) (WHO)
CREATION DATE/TIME:24-JUN-1997 14:17:29.57
SUBJECT: AIR FORCE SAYS DUMMIES USED IN PARACHUTE TESTS WERE
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Date: 06/24/97 Time: 13:40
UAir Force says dummies used in parachute tests were mistaken for
WASHINGTON (AP) The Air Force today offered what it hopes is
the final word on claims by UFO buffs that alien bodies were
recovered at a crash site in New Mexico in 1947: The --bodies"
were not aliens but dummies used, in tests.
The explanation on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the
incident is offered in enormous detail in a 231-page report the
Air Force released today. It is meant to close the book on
rumors that the Air Force recovered a flying saucer
and extraterrestrial bodies near Roswell, N.M., in July 1947, and
then covered it up.
immediately pointed 'out a discrepancy. The parachute
tests occurred years after the Roswell incident. The Air Force
theorized that those who saw the dummies were confused over the
dates.
Deon Crosby, director of the International UFO Museum and
Research Center in Roswell, said the report raises more questions
than it an'swers. She said pictures of the Air Force dummies look
like mannequins, and if that's what they were --what does it say
about the people in the military who can't tell the difference
between mannequins and bodies?"
The title of the report tells it all: --The Roswell Report, Case
Closed. ' , ~
The Air Force in 1994 issued a report on the Roswell incident
that'said the --spacecraft" that supposedly crashed in the New
Mexico desert was an Air Force'balloon used in a top-secret'
program, Project Mogul, intended to monitor the atmosphere for
evidence of Soviet nuclear tests.
The Air Force called that report its final response to the
Roswell rumors. But later the Air Force came upon evidence it
believed would explain the additional rumors that space aliens were
recovered at the crash site and were covered up. So today's report
was put together to provide what Air Force Secretary Sheila widnall
called a - -complete and open explanation. "
The possibility of a ,government conspiracy to cover up an actual
UFO was ridiculed today by retired Air Force Col. Richard
Weaver, who wrote the 1994 report.
--I don't think the government is of putting t'oge_ther a
decent conspiracy," Weaver said on NBC 's - -Today' I show. - -We have
a hard time keeping a secret, let alone putting together a decent
conspiracy. ' , '
Asked if he thought the new report will put the matter to rest,
Weaver said, --No, I doubt it. This has become a religion to many
people. It's almost a cult. Certainly an unbelievable financial
opportunity for many folks. So I think this is going to endure. I I
Although the Air Force's explanation of a mix-up of parachute
dummies for space aliens seems reasonable, there is one aspect that
troubles some UFO researchers: The tests with the dummies came
about a decade after the 1947 Roswell incident.
Did those who claimed to have seen the --aliens' I mix up their
dates that badly?
--I think this is a real stretch," said Karl Pflock, a UFO
researcher in New Mexico who said he does not believe the Roswell
incident involved alien spacecraft.
In its report today, the Air Force offered little elaboration on
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