Case file · Declassified record
Air Force Roswell reports (1994, 1997)
Two US Air Force reports: one tied the Roswell debris to Project Mogul, the other said reports of 'alien bodies' came from 1950s dummy drops and accidents.
1997 CE · 38.87, -77.06 · status: official
The account
'The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert' (1994–95) admitted that the 1947 weather-balloon story was a cover for the secret Mogul project. 'The Roswell Report: Case Closed' (1997) argued that witnesses had conflated anthropomorphic dummies, dropped in the 1950s, and a 1956 aircraft accident with 1947.
The sceptical view
Critics called the 1997 explanation implausible, because the dummy drops began years after 1947. The Air Force replied that memories had merged over time.
Connections in the atlas
- The Roswell Daily Record, 8 July 1947
- GAO report on Roswell records
- The Air Force Roswell reports
- ? What crashed at Roswell in 1947?
- Glenn Dennis, the Roswell mortician
- Project Mogul
- Roswell incident