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The Roswell Report: Case Closed (1997)

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Two years later the Air Force took on the stories of alien bodies at Roswell. Its answer was crash-test dummies dropped from high-altitude balloons in the 1950s. Critics pointed out the dates do not match 1947. Read it and decide.

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Made byHeadquarters United States Air Force (Capt. James McAndrew)
Issued byHeadquarters United States Air Force
Date1997
LanguageEnglish
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Why we can share it: Written by an Air Force officer and published by Headquarters US Air Force, so it is a work of the US Government and in the public domain in the United States (17 USC 105). The DTIC copy is marked Distribution Statement A, approved for public release.

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RecordProject Blue BookBetween 1947 and 1969 the US Air Force logged 12,618 UFO reports. When it closed the files, 701 still carried the label unidentified. Even its own scientific consultant later mocked it as a society for explaining the uninvestigated. What did the Air Force conclude, and what do the unexplained cases actually mean?

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