Heiser-The-Facade - Sparkling Eyes

"Yes," the major replied. "One of the craft occupants had apparently been thrownfrom the craft, but the others were inside. One was still alive, but the military didn't knowit until all the bodies had been brought to the base. They were each about four feet inheight, had light gray skin color, heads that seemed disproportionately large for theirbodies, and large black eyes. You're all familiar with the description by now due to mediasaturation—again, one of our attempts at acclimating the public. That's a subject forlater.""At least that's how the lore has come down to us," interjected Deidre."Yes, that's right," he said with a defiant stare. "One of you has recently seen theproof—isn't that correct, Dr. Bandstra?" he asked, never moving his gaze from Deidre."Yes," Neil intoned somewhat reluctantly, as though disturbed by both thequestion and his own response."I'm a little surprised at your skepticism, Dr. Harper. I had thought you hadaccepted the facts by now.""Hey, I don't doubt there were bodies. I'm just skeptical they were genuinealiens.""Are you saying they were fake?""No," Deidre replied."So you don't accept the Air Force's 1997 report that the bodies were actually testdummies?""Geeze, no thinking person would," she smirked."I remember seeing that conference on CNN," Mark spoke up. "It sounded to meat the time like the Air Force explained what happened very well.""No offense, Mark, but had you done any reading on theRoswell incident prior to seeing that conference?" she asked."No, I just heard about it on the news leading up to the televised conference.""That explains why you bought it then. I have to admit, that before thatconference, I doubted if anything weird happened at Roswell at all. As Major Lindsaywill surely explain to us when he continues, the whole Roswell story depends on severalevents: whether Mac Brazel was forced to recant his original story; whether GeneralRamey allowed actual debris from the field to be photographed by news photographers;and if he had the debris switched prior to the publicity shots. I was ready to conclude thatthe switch never took place, and that Jesse Marcel didn't recognize the material becausehe wasn't privy to the crashed vehicle's design which was being test flown by the AirForce. But when I saw the conference, I was led to believe there was indeed a cover up.""Why was that?" asked Malcolm."Because the Air Force's explanation was so . . . so ridiculously insipid. No onewith even a basic familiarity with the Roswell events could have accepted what the AirForce's Colonel Haynes was saying. The high point—or low point, depending on yourperspective—came when Colonel Haynes explained that the bodies were re-ally testdummies used by the Air Force as part of a secret weather balloon project called ProjectMogul. Not only did he mistakenly connect the dummies to Mogul, but the dummies hedisplayed were very human in appearance and all over five feet tall. Even better, thedummies were blue, and none of the descriptions of the bodies match their appearance!""Maybe the witnesses remembered incorrectly," offered Kevin."That's the kicker," she responded. "One of the reporters actually knew that the121