The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Comparison of the Account to the KC-97 Mishap
This series of actual events contains extensive similarities to
the account provided by Dennis. The numerous and extensive similarities
indicate that some elements of this actual event were most probably included
in Dennis’ account. This aircraft accident provides an explanation for the
following elements of the research profile-the very mangled, black, little
bodies in body bags, the odor, the two strange doctors, and the report of a
redheaded colonel.
Aircraft Crashes and UFOs
Since the first flying saucer story in June 1947. persons have attempted to
exploit actual military aircraft accidents to support UFO theories and propagate
the flying saucer phenomenon.
One of the first exploitation attempts involved a fatal August 1, 1947
Army Air Forces B-25 accident near Kelso, Wash. Descriptions of this
accident, which UFO theorists contend was caused because the aircraft carried
parts of a flying saucer. were included in a poorly executed hoax. Nonetheless,
it received a considerable amount of attention.
Another incidence was photographs of an “alien,” supposedly from a
1948 crash of a flying saucer in Mexico. However, when the photographs were
examined by Air Force officials, they noticed a pair of government issue,
aviator style, sunglasses lying underneath the “alien” body.
Perhaps the most famous attempt to exploit an actual aircraft accident
involved the fatal January 194X crash of a Kentucky Air National Guard F-5 I
tighter near Franklin, Ky. Theorists contend the fighter was shot down by a
UFO. However, it was determined that this aircraft most probably crashed
while observing a newly invented high altitude research balloon thought to be a
UFO. The large balloon, which matched eyewitnesses’ descriptions at the time,
was released the previous day, and its ground track placed it precisely in the
area where the unidentified object was sighted the next day. Regardless,
shameless attemptsto exploit this event continued as recently as 1995, when
the tabloid TV program, Sightings, aired and published (Sighrings, Simon &
Schuster, 1996, 170.176) a distorted interpretation of this tragedy.
The “Black” “Little Bodies.” Review of the autopsy protocols of
the victims of this accident revealed extensive similarities to the descriptions
of the bodies allegedly described by the missing nurse. Dennis related in
various interviews that the missing nurse described, “...three; very mangled;
black; little bodies in body bags.“lx2 Records of this mishap confirmed that
the victims suffered “injuries, extreme, multiple.“‘33 According to persons
who assisted in the identification of the remains from this crash, and in
compliance with Air Force directives in effect at that time, human remains
pouches, commonly called body bags, were used to recover and transport
victims’ bodies.‘3J
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