The Roswell Report: Case Closed

The Scenarios
UFO enthusiasts have attempted to explain the obvious
contradiction of multiple impact sites involving only one alien craft
through the introduction of complicated scenarios These scenarios have
become increasingly convoluted since the proponents of each crash site
must make allowances to have “their” flying saucer at the correct time
and place-the actual MOGUL balloon train landing site in early July,
1947- in order to “fit” with the rest of the story. The actual Project
MOGUL landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility, and
more importantly establishes a timeframe, for the other accounts that
include reports of bodies. Flying saucer enthusiasts use the documented
presence of U.S. Army Air Forces personnel at the MOGUL site in July
1947, who were there to retrieve the MOGUL balloon train, to provide
the nucleus of unrelated and much later accounts that include reports of
“bodies.” It must be emphasized that the claims of “bodies” only became
part of the Roswell Incident after 1978, when they were erroneously
linked to the July 1947 retrieval of Project MOGUL components.
In general, “Roswell Incident” scenarios claim that a disabled
alien craft momentarily touched down at the site 75 miles northwest of
Roswell, leaving behind parts of the spaceship (material that has been
subsequently identified as components of a MOGUL balloon train) to
create the original “debris field.” The scenarios further contend that the
damaged craft again became airborne and flew to its final crash site, at
either the location north of Roswell or 175 miles northwest of Roswell on
the San Agustin Plains.
Regardless of the dispute over the location, an element common
to most scenarios was that, once recovered, the bodies were supposedly
transported to the hospital at Roswell Army Air Field for autopsy. Also
common to these theories is that the bodies were later shipped from
Roswell AAF to another facility, usually Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
(or a host of other facilities-this is another area of further disagreement
among UFO theorists) for further evaluation and ultimate deep-freeze
storage.
Research Methods
In an attempt to untangle this collection of complicated
assertions and determine if there was any validity to the reports of bodies,
Air Force researchers faced the task of sorting through and examining
anecdotal testimony of hundreds of witnesses. However, a large number
of the accounts were eliminated by applying previously established facts
to the testimonies. The July 1994 report to the Secretary of the Air Force
clearly presented and documented these facts:
a. The U.S. Army Air Forces did not recover an extraterrestrial
vehicle and alien crew. This conclusion was based on extensive
research that included a thorough review of both classified and
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“lt must be
emphasized that
the claims of
bodies only
became part
of the Roswell
Incident after
1978, when they
were erroneously
linked to the July
1947 retrieval of
Project Mocu~
components.”