The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Additional similarities were also noted. Mr. Vern Maltais, a
secondhand witness of the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, described
the hands of the "aliens" as, "They had four fingers." 15 Anderson
characterized the hands as, "They didn't have a little finger." 16 He also
described the heads of the aliens as "completely bald" 17 while Maltais
described them as "hairless." 18 The uniforms of the aliens were
independently described by Anderson as "one-piece suits ... a shiny
silverish-gray color" 19 and by Maltais as "one-piece and gray in color." 20
The date of this event was also not precisely known. Maltais recalled that
it may have occurred "around 1950"21 and another secondhand witness,
Alice Knight stated, "I don't recall the date." 22
Witnesses of different sites also used the terms "wrecker"23 and
"six-by-six"24 when they described the military vehicles present at the
different recovery sites. One witness described seeing a "medium sized
Jeep/truck" 25 and another witness described seeing a "weapons carrier"26
(a weapons carrier is a mid-sized Jeep-type truck).
The Research Profile
When the general and specific similarities were combined, a
profile emerged describing the event or activity that might have been
observed. The profile, which contains elements common to at least two,
and in some cases, all of the accounts, established a set of criteria used
to determine what the witnesses may have observed. The profile is as
follows:
a. An activity that, if viewed from a distance, would appear unusual.
b. An activity of which the exact date is not known.
c. An activity that took place in two rural areas of New Mexico.
d. An activity that involved a type of aerial vehicle with dolls
or dummies that had four fingers, were bald, and wore one-
piece gray suits.
e. An activity that required recovery by numerous military
personnel and an assortment of vehicles that included a wrecker, a
six-by-six, and a weapons carrier.
Based on this profile, research was begun to identify events
or activities with these characteristics. Due to the location of the sites,
attention was focused on Roswell AAF (renamed Walker AFB in 1948),
White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB, N.M. The aerial
vehicles assigned or under development at these facilities were aircraft,
missiles, remotely-piloted drones, and high altitude balloons. The
operational characteristics and areas where these vehicles flew were
researched to determine if they played a role in the events described by
the witnesses.
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