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misunderstanding about a downed weather balloon. During his travels, Friedman met a retired air force officer who, at the time, had been stationed at Roswell Army Air Field; the officer, Major Jesse A. Marcel, had been the first uniformed officer on the site, and his observation and experience over the next few days put into question the long-accepted balloon explanation. Friedman also interviewed a woman who had worked at an Albuquerque radio station. She vividly remembered how the U.S. Air Force had squelched coverage of the story. Both she and Marcel believed that some kind of extraordinary event that had badly rattled the military had happened. Mo o re’s The Ro s well In c i d e n t ( 1 9 8 0 ) , written with Bermuda Triangle popularize r Charles Berlitz, would be only the first of many books to address the subject. As inve stigators spoke with a growing number of informants, military and civilian, they established that a cove r - u p, maintained in part by the threatening of witnesses, had been put into place and that the official story was not the real story. Some witnesses even assert e d that the military had re c ove red bodies of little men at either the original crash site or a n o t h e r, related one some miles away. In time, the Ro s well incident, as eve ryo n e called it, was no longer an arcane fascination of ufologists but a much-discussed item of pop culture, influencing any number of television shows, documentaries, movies, jokes, and more . After years of denying that the air force had covered up the Roswell incident, the General Accounting Office, at the behest of New Mexico Congressman Steven Schiff, searched official archives for relevant documents, uncovering little of interest. Around the same time, in 1994, the U.S. Air Force declared that there had indeed been a cover-up; it had been of Project Mogul, a highly classified project in which balloons were sent aloft to monitor possible Soviet atomic tests over the horizon. A Mogul balloon had come down near Roswell, and the military’s effort to keep it a secret sparked the legend of a UFO crash. In Dead extraterrestrials 85 the face of press and popular skepticism (much of it focused on the explanation’s failure to account for reports of bodies) the U.S. Air Force renewed its inquiries. On June 24, 1997, it contended that the supposedly alien bodies were in fact “anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research” (The Roswell Report, 1997). The problem with this theory was that tests involving such dummies did not occur until 1953, leaving the air force with the rationalization—unpersuasive to many—that the informants simply had their time mixed up. Still, many ufologists, as much out of fru stration as firm intellectual conviction, accepted the Mogul explanation, whatever its i m p e rfections. The Ro s well incident had spawned an industry and generated a huge body of often confusing, contradictory (and sometimes demonstrably false) testimony. It e ven generated documents (most notably the notorious and deeply suspect “MJ-12” papers, purportedly from the supersecret pro ject overseeing the UFO cover-up). On the whole, it did not accomplish a great deal except to line the pockets of opportunists who d i d n’t much care about the truth—which, in any event, seemed irre c overable so many years past the original event. Ro s well also ins p i red one of the most brazen hoaxes in UFO h i s t o ry, the so-called alien autopsy film that a i red on the Fox Ne t w o rk in the mid-1990s, p u r p o rting to show the dismemberment of an extraterrestrial body by government scientists in 1947. The failure of the Roswell story to come to firm resolution after two decades of furious controversy sobered many once-enthusiastic or hopeful ufologists. But as long as questions remain, the mystery will stay open to those who are sufficiently determined to keep thinking—or, perhaps, thinking wishfully— about it. And Roswell or no, rumors, tall tales, and—on rare occasion—genuinely intriguing reports of dead extraterrestrials in our midst are likely to entertain live humans for some time to come.
86 Dead extraterrestrials A photo from the U.S. Air Force’s Roswell Report about the 1947 UFO incident at Roswell, New Mexico, released June 24, 1997, and intended to eliminate long-standing rumors. Air force personnel supposedly used stretchers and gurneys to pick up these 200-pound dummies in the field and move them to the laboratory. (Associated Press/Air Force) See Also: Abductions by UFOs; Aurora Martian; Fossilized aliens; Oleson’s giants Further Reading Barker, Gray, 1960. “Chasing the Flying Saucers.” Flying Saucers (November): 22–28. Berlitz, Charles, and William L. Mo o re, 1980. The Ro s well In c i d e n t . New Yo rk: Grosset and Du n l a p. Cahn, J. P., 1952. “The Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Men.” True (September): 17–19, 102–112. Carey, Thomas J., and Donald R. Schmitt, 1999. “Mack Brazel Reconsidered.” International UFO Reporter 24, 4 (Winter): 12–19. Evans, Alex, 1978. “Encounters with Little Men.” Fate 31, 11 (November): 83–86.
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EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS An Encyclo
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EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS
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2 Abductions by UFOs In the first c
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4 Abductions by UFOs tion. Few obse
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6 Abductions by UFOs the Roper Orga
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8 Adamski, George See Also: Lemuria
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10 Aenstrians Europe. In May of tha
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12 Affa Saturn. In 1954 Aetherius m
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14 Agharti The hidden world of “S
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16 Alien diners Klarer, Elizabeth,
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18 Aliens and the dead feel it in h
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20 Alyn ening encounter on a Virgin
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22 Angel of the Dark pears in conta
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24 Anthon tion from an old age to a
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26 Arna and Parz Arna and Parz Betw
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28 Ashtar worldly entities, only As
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30 Athena was released. By this tim
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32 Atlantis That is not all the dia
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Page 65 and 66: 48 Brodie’s deros fense Research
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Page 91 and 92: 74 Cottingley fairies Frances Griff
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136 Joseph pealing or obnoxious. Th
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Kantarians For four nights in Septe
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152 Cover of Flying Saucers magazin
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158 Li Sung the notion that the air
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160 Lyrans Further Reading Steiger,
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162 Marian apparitions that these e
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164 Marian apparitions That same da
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170 Melora Further Reading Hind, Cy
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174 Michael Carlos Santana, the mos
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176 Mince-Pie Martians Midlands, on
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178 Mothman sand feet the occupants
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180 Mount Lassen A Morlock (with vi
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182 Mount Shasta A nineteenth-centu
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184 Mr. X See Also: Atlantis; Bonni
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Noma In 1961, investigating the Bro
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Nostradamus, shown in magician’s
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194 Oleson’s giants Jones, Huffor
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Asia, and South America. The “tho
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about communication or interaction
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animals go, it does not have human,
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UFO Experiences.” Journal of UFO
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246 The Two educated at the Sorbonn
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248 The Two Dallas-Fort Worth and e
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250 Ummo One of several UFO photogr
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252 Unholy Six of the UMMO author
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254 Val Thor own falsifications. He
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256 Vegetable Man George Van Tassel
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Walk-ins Ruth Montgomery popularize
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not all) local police officers and
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Borderland Sciences Research Associ
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