In the mid-1990s, the United States Air Force issued two reports that,
they said, accounted for the debris found and reported on in 1947, and
that also accounted for the later reports of alien recoveries. The
reports identified the debris as coming from a top secret government
experiment called Project Mogul, which tested the feasibility of
detecting Soviet nuclear tests and ballistic missiles with equipment on
high-altitude balloons. Accounts of aliens were explained as resulting
from misidentified military experiments that used anthropomorphic
dummies, accidents involving injured or killed military personnel, and
hoaxes perpetrated by various witnesses and UFO proponents.
The
Air Force report formed a basis for a skeptical response to the claims
many authors were making about the recovery of aliens, though skeptical
researchers such as Philip J. Klass and Robert Todd had already been
publishing articles for several years raising doubts about alien
accounts before the Air Force issued its conclusions.
While books
published into the 1990s suggested there was much more to the Roswell
incident than the mere recovery of a weather balloon, skeptics, and even
some social anthropologists instead saw the increasingly elaborate
accounts as evidence of a myth being constructed. After the release of
the Air Force reports in the mid-1990s, several books, such as Kal K.
Korff's The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You To Know,
published in 1997, built on the evidence presented in the reports to
conclude "there is no credible evidence that the remains of an
extraterrestrial spacecraft was involved."
Critics identified several reasons for their contention that the Roswell incident had nothing to do with aliens.
One
of the immediate outcomes of the Air Force reports on the Roswell UFO
incident was the decision by some prominent UFO researchers to view the
Roswell incident as not involving any alien craft.
While the
initial Air Force report was a chief reason for this, another was the
release of secret documents from 1948 that showed that top Air Force
officials did not know what the UFO objects being reported in the media
were and their suspicion they might be Soviet spy vehicles.
In
January 1997, Karl T. Pflock, one of the more prominent pro-UFO
researchers, said "Based on my research and that of others, I'm as
certain as it's possible to be without absolute proof that no flying
saucer or saucers crashed in the general vicinity of Roswell or on the
Plains of San Agustin in 1947. The debris found by Mac Brazel...was the
remains of something very earthly, all but certainly something from the
Top Secret Project Mogul....The formerly highly classified record of
correspondence and discussions among top Air Force officials who were
responsible for cracking the flying saucer mystery from the mid-1940s
through the early 1950s makes it crystal clear that they didn't have any
crashed saucer wreckage or bodies of saucer crews, but they were
desperate to have such evidence ..."
Kent Jeffrey, who organized
petitions to ask President Bill Clinton to issue an Executive Order to
declassify any government information on the Roswell incident, similarly
concluded that no such aliens were likely involved.
William L.
Moore, one of the earliest proponents of the Roswell incident, said this
in 1997: "After deep and careful consideration of recent developments
concerning Roswell...I am no longer of the opinion that the
extraterrestrial explanation is the best explanation for this event."
Moore was co-author of the first book on Roswell, The Roswell Incident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_incident
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