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Report on Roswell 'UFO crash' due soon [CNN]
From: Stig_Agermose@online.pol.dk (Stig Agermose)
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 1997 07:55:59 -0800
Subject: Report on Roswell 'UFO crash' due soon [CNN]
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[Note from the moderator: The Roswell incident itself is off-topic
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>From CNN's Website: http://www.cnn.com/US/9706/18/ufo.report/
Report on Roswell 'UFO crash' due soon
Air Force says wreckage was from tests
Altered stories fueled the fire
Were dummies mistaken for aliens?
June 18, 1997
Web posted at: 11:01 p.m. EDT (0301 GMT)
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Air Force says it will release a report within
a week on a 1947 crash near Roswell, New Mexico, that has gained cult
status as a suspected UFO incident.
"There is not going to be anything new, I think, in this report," says
Air Force spokeswoman Gloria Cales. "It's going to substantiate what
we've said all along."
After initially announcing it had recovered the remains of a flying
saucer in 1947, the Air Force corrected itself the next day and claimed
the wreckage was a weather balloon.
The sudden reversal, the exotic nature of the subject and the lingering
suspicion that the government knows more than it is saying have given
rise to a case that has assumed legendary proportions.
A number of books have been written about the incident, and it is
considered by UFO buffs to be the biggest cover-up in U.S. history. It
was also mentioned in the movie "Independence Day," which featured a
super-secret government lab where scientists had studied alien cadavers
for decades.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the "crash," and it has been
receiving considerable attention in the media and elsewhere. The city
of Roswell, among others, aims to cash in on it.
Wreckage found on sheep ranch
"Something happened here and it's probably the most credible UFO event
in the world," says Mayor Tom Jennings. "We've taken that and developed
it into a whole new industry -- tourism."
The town's historic Plains movie theater is now a UFO museum -- one of
two in town -- and has a big flying saucer on the roof.
Roswell sits on the plains east of the Sierra Blanca mountain range in
southeastern New Mexico. It is in the center of the state's gas and oil
industry, but it expects its population of 48,000 to double as UFO
believers, researchers and the curious flock to town from July 1
through 6 for a golden anniversary of the event.
Time magazine's June 23 cover story about the incident says the
wreckage in question was found along a 200-yard swath of land on a
sheep ranch belonging to J.B. Foster, 85 miles northwest of Roswell.
It was spotted by rancher W.W. ("Mac") Brazel and consisted of rubber
strips, tin foil, wood sticks, adhesive tape, other tape with a floral
design and a tough, resilient kind of paper.
Brazel thought so little of the discovery that he neglected to mention
it for days. But the story has taken on a life of its own since.
Altered stories fueled the fire
Further confusing the issue has been the Air Force's conduct, first in
claiming it had the wreckage of a UFO and then denying it.
It contradicted itself again in 1994, saying that the wreckage was in
fact part of a device used to detect Soviet nuclear tests.
A source told Time that the wreckage came from a secret operation
called Project Mogul, which launched trains of balloons carrying
acoustical equipment into the atmosphere to monitor Soviet tests.
The new report, which the Air Force would not elaborate on, is also
expected to address the issue of alien "bodies" which witnesses
reportedly saw near the wreckage.
Among the reports was one from a Roswell mortician who claims he
received an inquiry in 1947 from a nearby air base about child-sized
coffins.
But according to Time those reports can be explained by another Air
Force project conducted in the area in 1947.
Were dummies mistaken for aliens?
It involved dropping dummies from high-altitude balloons to study the
results of the impact from high-altitude parachute jumps.
Says Time, "Witnesses' descriptions of the 'aliens,' the Air Force
notes, closely match the characteristics of the dummies: 3 1/2 ft. to 4
ft. tall, bluish skin coloration and no ears, hair, eyebrows or
eyelashes."
The magazine quotes an Air Force spokesman as saying, "What quite
likely happened is that people who saw these dummies mistook them for
aliens."
Message Board: Roswell 'UFO crash' report
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Ufomind Index: Air Force Explanations for Roswell Crash
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