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November 26, 2001.

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The History Channel convened a team of investigators at the National Archives outside Washington,

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D.C. These experts came here for an exclusive first look at top secret government files,

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only now being declassified, decades after the United States government began its cover-up

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of the Roswell incident.

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Until this day, the public had been denied access to these boxes, containing 17 notebooks

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of top secret information, hundreds of photographs, transcripts and audio tapes of dozens of witnesses,

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and 22 films and videos.

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Inside these boxes, our experts discovered new evidence of a controversy over the handling

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of the Roswell incident that raged behind the scenes.

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Through these files, our experts retraced the steps of the government's own investigation.

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Finally we get to look at the records that were generated by the researchers who were

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at the center of this story.

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Among the boxes of files and photographs, researchers were surprised to find a crate

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containing what government inventories listed only as an unidentified metallic object.

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Even those who were skeptical of the UFO reports at Roswell hoped that this crate might contain

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what so many have sought for so long.

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I hope to see some physical evidence.

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That's what's always missing.

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From these newly declassified materials, we hoped to uncover clues that would solve one

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of the greatest mysteries of the 20th century.

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What really happened in the desert outside Roswell, New Mexico in the summer of 1947?

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July 7, a storm swept across the desert outside Roswell.

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Rancher, Mac Roswell, went out the next day to inspect his fields and fences for storm

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damage and discovered a small pile of debris.

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He gathered up a sample and took it home to show his family.

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Some of it was clearly balsa wood and paper, but the family was mystified by what looked

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like purple hieroglyphics and an unfamiliar foil-like material that seemed unnaturally

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resilient.

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This rancher who retrieved the wreckage initially must have been surprised and shocked by what

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he found.

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It simply wasn't like anything else you'd find in the desert at the time.

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As originally reported back in 1947, Brazil assumed that the debris was associated somehow

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with operations at nearby Roswell Airfield.

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Through the local sheriff, he contacted the base and two officers were sent out to retrieve

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the unidentified materials.

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And when they brought it back to the base, Colonel Blanchard, who was the commander there,

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directed that his press guy, Walter Hart, put out a press announcement saying that they

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had captured a flying saucer.

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I did that and took it to the local news media and from there it went around literally the

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world.

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The public reaction was immediate and overwhelming.

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The base switchboard was jammed with calls and the story made the front pages of newspapers

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across the country.

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Once the media started grabbing it, we telephone calls from morning to night and from night

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to morning.

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There was a tremendous amount of active interest, not just amongst the public, but in the government,

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in the military.

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They were very concerned.

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They thought people were seeing something real and it was something that was intruding

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into our airspace and they had serious concerns about it.

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Within hours, the material was flown to Fort Worth, Texas for inspection by high-ranking

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Air Force experts.

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Brigadier General Roger Ramey examined the debris.

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Immediately he retracted the original press release, denying that the debris was evidence

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of a flying saucer.

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Instead, he said, the foil and balsa wood scraps were remnants of a reflective radar

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target from a downed weather balloon.

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And here's where the disagreement over the Roswell incident begins.

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To some, the misidentification of the debris was a simple mistake.

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But others weren't buying the Air Force's new and improved story.

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I think that they were trying to cover up materials that they had picked up that were

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foreign to anything that we were familiar with.

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Years later, the authenticity of the debris displayed by Ramey became the subject of heated

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debate in the UFO community.

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Was it actually the foil and balsa wood debris MacBrosel had retrieved, or had the government

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substituted something else as part of a cover-up?

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Oh, it was definitely a cover-up.

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There's no fans or butts about it.

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There was a cover-up about what happened near Roswell in July of 1947, but it had nothing

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to do with a crash-flying saucer.

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In 1947, the year of the first sightings at Roswell, the Cold War was just beginning to

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heat up.

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The Air Force was concerned that UFO reports might be evidence of a serious threat to national

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security, either from the Soviet Union or possibly even another planet.

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So in 1949, they began investigating these sightings in earnest with Project Blue Book.

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We have also talked to some people who have claimed to have contacted these from outer

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space.

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The primary concern of the Air Force was the potential of the Soviet surprise attack.

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They were concerned about UFOs, particularly in the 1952 period, by the idea that the Soviets

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could exploit American belief in flying saucers to hide preparations for a strike on the United

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States.

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Project Blue Book wasn't the only government investigation into UFOs conducted during the

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1950s.

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The CIA did its own research and eventually concluded that there was no actual threat

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involved.

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But instead of going public with their findings, the CIA used reports of UFO sightings to deliberately

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mislead and confuse the American public.

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All in an effort to protect the agency's most closely guarded secret, the U-2 spy plane.

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The CIA for many years was testing its own high-altitude planes, spy planes, that they

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wanted to keep secret from the public and from America's enemies.

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In the process, they collaborated with the Air Force in misleading the American public

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about sightings of strange craft.

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The CIA tried to deflect interest away from their top secret spy planes by encouraging

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the public to think of them as unidentified flying objects.

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When public sightings of U-2s were reported, the CIA claimed that they were UFOs, UFOs

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that they then explained away as optical illusions caused by natural phenomena.

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And in many cases, the explanations that came out were just so ludicrous that they

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perpetuated the myth that the government was lying and covering something up.

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We are your friends.

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We are your friends.

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But the CIA had underestimated the public's interest in UFOs.

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Their disinformation campaign backfired, fueling a firestorm of speculation that the government

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was hiding evidence of extraterrestrial encounters.

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Even more people became curious about what was really happening in the skies over the

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Southwest.

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Nowhere was that reaction more extreme than in the case of Roswell.

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The military shot itself in the foot about Roswell by coming forward with this misleading

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cover story initially and because it was not forthcoming with the public, the public filled

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in the blanks on its own.

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When we return, eyewitnesses come forward with new details of an alien crash landing

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at Roswell.

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Today, Roswell, New Mexico is synonymous with the UFO phenomenon.

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And for the U.S. Air Force, it has become a PR nightmare, breeding suspicion and mistrust

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among the American public.

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People believe that the government was withholding actual physical evidence of an alien landing

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at Roswell.

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Evidence that UFologists were hoping to find among the government's recently declassified

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files in the case.

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But this collection of formerly classified files would never have been generated in the

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first place, except for an event that occurred in 1978.

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More than 30 years after the Roswell story first hit the headlines.

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In 1978, Jesse Marsil, one of the officers who recovered the debris from Mac Brosil's

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ranch, went public for the first time with a new version of the facts.

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According to the original 1947 reports, the debris he found was nothing more than a handful

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of balsa wood, plastic and foil.

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But in Marsil's new version of the story, he claimed that the debris blanketed an area

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three quarters of a mile long and several hundred feet wide.

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In this updated account, Marsil contradicted the Air Force explanation that the debris was

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from a downed weather balloon.

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Instead, he speculated that it could have been evidence of an alien crash landing.

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UFO researchers immediately caught wind of the story and began to dig deeper.

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They descended on the town of Roswell and the nearby airfield, tracking down many of

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the principals and their friends and relatives.

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A new picture began to emerge.

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In the updated accounts, the two officers from Roswell airfield who went out to retrieve

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the debris were now joined by a platoon of soldiers who set up a blockade and combed

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the fields, picking up vast amounts of debris that were trucked to Roswell airfield and

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kept under the tightest possible security.

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According to these news stories, massive amounts of debris were airlifted via several

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large military transports to a secret location.

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As UFO researchers continued to dig, new witnesses came forward volunteering details

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of a second crash site.

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Among them, Gerald Anderson, who was five years old at the time.

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Anderson told a fantastic tale of a discovery he made with his father and uncle while searching

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for rocks in the desert outside Socorro, New Mexico, about 200 miles from Roswell.

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In this videotape, discovered among the newly declassified materials and seen here on television

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for the first time, Anderson repeated his story to government investigators in 1991.

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There was a large silver disc-shaped object embedded in the side of the ridge line.

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I would estimate in size from an adult perspective to be something like 35 feet in diameter.

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When we got up to it, there were four bodies there.

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In Anderson's fantastic story, there were four aliens at the crash site, two dead, one

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severely injured, one ambulatory.

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He described the aliens as diminutive in size, not more than four feet tall, with large heads

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and long thin limbs.

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He remembered their faces as strangely featureless.

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Then came an even more stunning revelation, this time from a man named Glenn Dennis.

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In 1947, Dennis was a mortician at the Ballard Funeral Home in Roswell.

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He recalled driving an injured airman to the hospital at Roswell Airfield shortly after

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the initial discovery of debris on Brosels Ranch.

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In the hospital, Dennis claimed to have encountered a friend of his, an Air Force nurse by the

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name of Naomi Maria Self.

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Well she screamed at me, Glenn get out as fast as you can because she says you're going

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to get in a lot of trouble, get out as fast as you can.

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Dennis claimed that he was then confronted by a redheaded Air Force captain and a black

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sergeant who threatened him and then escorted him off the base.

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I said get this SOB out of here and then I got my hands started, told him go to hell

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I was surveilling and all this.

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According to Dennis, he arranged to meet the nurse again the next day.

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In this second encounter, she gave him a graphic and disturbing account of the events that

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had driven her to hysterics.

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She said that she had been called into the operating room by doctors who were conducting

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autopsies on bodies like none she had ever seen before.

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Still had tincture to your offices for the nostrils air and the mouth was only like one

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inch, no teeth, no tongue.

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As the nurse described it, the bodies were burned and mutilated, clearly crash victims

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and they gave off an overpowering odor that eventually forced doctors to abandon the autopsies.

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She was evidently very traumatized.

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She drew a little picture apparently of the body that she had seen and immediately destroyed

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it and kept looking over her shoulders as if people were listening, which they might

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have been.

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And then he tried to get back in touch with her soon after that and she was gone, shipped

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out.

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These new eyewitness accounts about the events at Roswell fired the public imagination as

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never before.

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Books, movies and television programs about the Roswell case fanned the flames.

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The Air Force was inundated with questions about the events at Roswell.

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As the myth grew, they began to be driven nuts by requests for this kind of information,

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that kind of information.

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They wanted desperately to get this all behind them.

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The sheer volume of files recently declassified in the Roswell case is a testament to the

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government's high level of concern.

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As our story continues, the public outcry about UFO sightings at Roswell forces the

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government to reveal top secret projects that were kept hidden for more than 50 years.

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As investigators combed through the recently declassified materials in the Roswell case,

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they discovered logbooks filled with detailed launch records, records of a top secret project

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being carried out in 1947.

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These logs provide first hand evidence of a project that the government kept under wraps

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for almost 50 years, until this report on the Roswell incident was published in 1995.

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In this report, the Air Force revealed the project for the first time, admitting that

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the weather balloon story was indeed a cover up.

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According to this 1995 government report, the debris did include remnants of radar targets

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and balloon fabric, but not from an ordinary weather balloon.

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It turns out that what this debris was from was from a highly classified project called

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Mogul.

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Project Mogul was this top secret experiment, an attempt to monitor Soviet nuclear tests

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with microphones, listening devices hoisted high into the air by balloons.

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Formerly classified government films show that, unlike smaller weather balloons, Project

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Mogul involved several large balloons strung together, forming a long train that, once

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in flight, could stretch up to 650 feet.

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The Mogul balloon was as tall as the Washington Monument.

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It was 20-some rubber weather balloons.

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You had three to five of the radar reflectors.

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You had ballast canisters.

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You had the sonoboy for detecting signals.

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So this was the biggest man-made object in New Mexico at the time.

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According to the government's original report, what Mac Brazzel found on his land was actually

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the remnants of one of these Project Mogul balloons.

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Deep inside a vault at the National Archives, this mysterious wooden crate was stored among

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the recently declassified files.

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Does it hold evidence of Project Mogul or proof of an alien crash landing at Roswell?

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We can now see for ourselves the balsa and paper construction and the shiny foil-like

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material that mystified so many eyewitnesses when General Ramey first displayed it in 1947.

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Most investigators, even those who believe that we have been visited by UFOs, are now

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convinced that a Project Mogul radar target like this one is at the heart of the Roswell

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mystery.

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When you read and listen to the descriptions by the witnesses, the people who actually saw

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this material, the people who actually handled this material, the parallels between what

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they describe and what we know as being flown on Project Mogul are effectively one for one.

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Investigators, however, still doubt that the Air Force has revealed everything they know

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about the case.

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They put together this report as well.

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We found out it was this Project Mogul balloon and Mogul was highly classified and that's

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the end of the story.

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But it really isn't the end of the story because they didn't deal with all of the facts.

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They dealt only with the facts that they thought were consistent with their theory of Project

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Mogul.

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By revealing the details of Project Mogul in their 1995 report, the Air Force had hoped

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to close the book on the Roswell case.

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Instead, they raised even more questions about what really happened in the desert outside

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Roswell, New Mexico, in the summer of 1947 and what other secrets the government might

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still be hiding.

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Where was the debris?

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Where were the alien bodies described by so many eyewitnesses?

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So the Air Force decided to prepare a second report, more detailed, more expansive, addressing

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more of the strange and fantastic stories that surround Roswell.

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The second government report was a bonanza for both UFO investigators and national security

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specialists.

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To explain the eyewitness accounts at Roswell, the US Air Force was forced to release information

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and film footage on a wide range of top secret government projects.

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These files contain the nuts and bolts information about secret Air Force projects that span

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decades.

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We have the day-to-day details of top secret balloon flights, of all manner of experimental

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craft that were tested in secret in the desert.

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The bulk of the second Air Force report was devoted to Operation High Dive, a top secret

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project carried out during the 1950s.

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Operation High Dive was designed to test high altitude parachutes, using anthropomorphic

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dummies.

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The government claimed that these dummies could easily be mistaken for aliens.

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They pointed out the close resemblance between eyewitness descriptions of aliens and the

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dummies, the strange lifeless expressions, the lack of prominent facial features, shiny,

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pallid skin, and the one-piece jumpsuits.

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Of course these dummies, well they're human-like, that's just exactly it, they're human-like,

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they're not quite human, they're very peculiar looking in some regard.

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I think that these dummies, while they resemble a human form, also look unearthly.

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Naturally, if you'd have seen one of these dummies coming down in the desert on a parachute

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or otherwise, and if you're a civilian who's heard some stories about strange aircraft

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and aliens and the like, you might draw the conclusion that aliens had landed in your

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desert.

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In addition to Operation High Dive, the second Air Force report revealed other top secret

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high-altitude experiments carried out during the 40s, 50s and 60s.

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In these experiments, massive balloon trains carried scientific payloads weighing up to

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15,000 pounds, to altitudes as high as 170,000 feet, more than 32 miles above the Earth's

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surface.

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As shown in these recently declassified films, high-altitude balloons were also used to test

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atmosphere re-entry prototypes built by NASA.

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Some of these prototypes were capable of self-propulsion and guided landings, and even today, many of

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these prototypes seem otherworldly in origin.

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In the 1940s and even into the 1950s, most people knew about airplanes from newsreels

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of movie stars getting onto DC-3s.

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They had a very clear idea of how big an airplane was, that it had big wings, that it had propellers,

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and that was their frame of reference for what an aircraft a flying machine should look

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like.

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Something round was truly out of this world.

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A balloon floating at 100,000 feet, it's a huge object.

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It's potentially several hundred feet in diameter.

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The balloons can also seem to hover, and then if they're caught by a high-altitude jet

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stream, suddenly take off at 100 or more miles an hour.

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So you had a very exotic-looking object which was disc-shaped, behaving in a manner that

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a conventional airplane couldn't.

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So of course they will be reported as flying saucers.

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The Air Force's second report offered some plausible explanations for many of the more

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outrageous elements of eyewitness accounts at Roswell.

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But was it really a complete accounting of the government's top secret activities?

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Were they still hiding evidence that could shed light on the case?

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Coming up next, independent investigators revealed new evidence of top secret projects

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that may explain some of the most dramatic claims of eyewitnesses.

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In the weeks after the US government's files on the infamous Roswell incident were declassified,

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the history channels experts examined the contents of the 11 boxes of files, films, and photographs.

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They were looking for evidence that might help explain the many fantastic claims made

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about alien crash landings at Roswell in the summer of 1947.

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Claims not fully accounted for in either of the Air Force's two official reports.

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But in the search for answers, our investigators were surprised to discover new mysteries.

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There are a few items in these files that are hard to explain.

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There is for example a lengthy court-martial record dating from the 1950s.

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These 300 pages of court transcripts told the sordid details of an affair between a doctor and a nurse,

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assigned to the Roswell Airfield Hospital.

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In the court transcript, the nurse was described as having a highly suggestible hysterical personality.

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Could this be the nurse that Glenn Dennis claimed to have encountered,

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who described alien autopsies at the hospital in Roswell?

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Elements of the two stories seem to match.

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But there is one overriding discrepancy.

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The trial happened in 1956, almost nine years after Dennis claimed to have had his encounter.

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The identity of this nurse is one of the most persistent mysteries in the Roswell case,

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stumping both government and independent UFO investigators.

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Personnel records showed that no nurse by the name of Naomi Maria Self had ever been assigned to a hospital in Roswell.

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Not in 1947 or at any other time.

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In its 1998 report, the Air Force speculated that Glenn Dennis had been lying or mistaken

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about the year he encountered the mysterious nurse,

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claiming that many details of Dennis' story could be explained by accidents

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that occurred as part of regular flight activities much later in the 1950s.

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There was a crash of a KC-97 tanker taking off from the air base there at Roswell.

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And all the crew were killed and burned very, very badly.

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And a number of the bodies were brought to the base hospital at Roswell.

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And the descriptions of those bodies and what transpired when they were brought there

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matches very closely with the story that Glenn Dennis told about the alien bodies allegedly

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that being brought in about nine years before.

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The bodies were later taken to the Ballard Funeral Home where Glenn Dennis had worked.

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Air Force investigators theorized that Dennis drew on this experience to develop his story of alien bodies.

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Supposedly, as told to him by the elusive nurse, Naomi Maria Self.

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According to the Air Force, other details of Dennis' story could be explained by a second accident

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involving one of the Air Force's first manned high altitude balloon experiments.

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Project Excelsior, which was carried out in the late 50s and early 60s.

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As shown in these recently declassified films, Project Excelsior was designed to test the effects

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of high altitude parachuting on human subjects.

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Excelsior test pilots were taken to the very edge of space in open gondolas

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where they parachuted to Earth from 100,000 feet up.

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Led by a red-headed pilot, Captain Joe Kittenger, Excelsior was considered a high-risk assignment

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in which even low-level training flights could be hazardous.

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As yet another pilot, Captain Dan Folgem discovered on May 21, 1959.

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His flight that day was uneventful, but the landing did not go as planned.

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The gondola tipped over, trapping Folgem's head against the ground.

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The red-headed Captain Kittenger accompanied Folgem to the hospital at Roswell.

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By the time they arrived there, Folgem's head had swelled up to twice its normal size.

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At the hospital, the size of Folgem's head was exaggerated even more by a thick layer of bandages.

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His face was black and blue and his eyes swollen shut.

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Aspects of this event and the accident involving the crash of the KC-97 bear a striking resemblance

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to the details of Glenn Dennis's story.

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And the later time period of these events could explain some of the glaring anachronisms in Dennis's story,

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including his allegations that the red-headed Captain who threatened him was accompanied by a black sergeant.

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In July 1947, the Army Air Forces was not integrated.

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Like the rest of American society was segregated.

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There were separate black units.

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It was incomprehensible that a white officer would have a black sergeant.

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It becomes reasonable if what we are seeing is a description of an event which occurred later

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after the then Air Force had become integrated.

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Even UFO believer Kevin Randall concedes that Dennis's accounts have been largely discredited,

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citing his own exhaustive search for the mysterious Naomi Maria Self.

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Glenn Dennis tells us the name of the nurse.

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So we've got to find the nurse.

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We're going through the record.

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Well, she's not in the yearbook.

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She's not in the base telephone directory.

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I went through the Froswoldator record for the year of 1947.

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Couldn't find her mentioned.

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We went through the morning reports.

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We looked everywhere.

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We could find no record of a nurse with her name anywhere.

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And when Glenn Dennis was confronted with this, he said,

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well, I never told you guys the right name.

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So immediately his story falls to pieces.

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Despite the holes in Dennis's story, some UFO researchers still don't buy the government's explanations

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for his and other eyewitness claims.

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The crash test dummy thing was preposterous for one thing.

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If you've seen the one that's at the UFO museum, it's six feet tall.

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I don't see anybody can make a mistake like that.

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You know, people that were at the crash site, you know,

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and said that the bodies were diminutive.

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I don't see anybody could make a mistake of that kind.

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There are many UFO researchers who are not persuaded by these Air Force reports.

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These researchers remain convinced that we're not getting the whole story.

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And they have a sound basis for that speculation,

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given that the government has not told the full truth about UFOs for many decades.

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But now the government's own files have been declassified,

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and it's possible to conduct a firsthand analysis of the original historical documents from the period.

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Popular mechanics, science editor and aerospace historian Jim Wilson

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has carefully examined these primary sources,

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documents that represent the cold hard facts of the day-to-day events at Roswell,

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looking for evidence of the massive recovery effort of an alien spacecraft

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or the tell-tale signs of a cover-up.

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And this is where the records, the declassified records are very useful.

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Let me give you an example.

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If you live in a town where there had once been a great mill fire, for example,

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and it was a local legend, you could go to the records of, say, the fire company

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on that particular day, or the police department.

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And you could see noted in the logbooks and the police blotters,

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so many additional police crawled in, so many police dispatched.

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When you look at the Officer Day reports for what was happening at the Roswell Army airfield,

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you see no disruption in normal activity.

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As pedestrian as they may seem, these detailed and seemingly authentic logbooks

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may be the most important piece of evidence in these boxes.

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They provide the simplest but most eloquent argument in support of the government's case,

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undermining many of the most fantastic claims about alien crash landings at Roswell.

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But UFO investigators claim that there is still much to be learned about what really happened at Roswell,

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as our story of the government's cover-up continues.

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In its 1998 report, the Air Force cited a number of top secret government projects

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as possible explanations for UFO sightings at Roswell,

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hoping to close the book on the case.

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The Air Force report Roswell case closed is probably a premature use of that term.

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It certainly doesn't close the case on all of the UFO sightings.

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And as we found out in doing our own stories, there were many projects

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that were involved with the UFO phenomenon that the story doesn't even vaguely address.

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Among these files and other recently declassified materials,

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our experts have found extensive evidence of other top secret government projects.

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These projects may help explain some of the strange stories told by eyewitnesses to UFO crash landings.

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A case in point. In its 1998 report, the Air Force makes only one brief mention

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of space biology experiments associated with the testing of high-altitude balloons.

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But a thorough examination of the government's files reveals that experiments with live animals

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were an integral part of many flight test programs.

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These experiments on space biology began with animals, mice, monkeys,

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other creatures were jettisoned up into the sky.

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These experiments were documented by films that show the effects on animal subjects,

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effects of cosmic radiation, changes in gravity forces,

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and the unthinkable trauma caused by a high-speed return to Earth.

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This was very risky business because what was the reason for the fact

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that these animals met their deaths in the desert as a result of their participation in these experiments.

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Details of the space biology program raised new questions.

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Could the alien survivors spotted by eyewitnesses actually have been primates used in space biology experiments?

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Just imagine being a civilian traveling through the desert

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and coming upon a crashed ship of some kind with dead animals inside it, or monkeys in space suits.

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What would you think?

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Aerospace historian Jim Wilson has found evidence of several other top-secret projects

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also never revealed in the Air Force reports.

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These include a covert project in which the Air Force designed a 40-foot-thick,

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flying saucer, a craft with the potential to rain nuclear destruction on the Soviet Union.

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Manned by a crew of four and nuclear-powered, the lenticular reentry vehicle was designed to be carried aloft via rocket

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and maintain an orbit 300 miles above the Earth's surface.

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We believe that a large number of the UFO sites are located in the air.

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A large number of the UFO sightings that happened in the 50s and through the 60s

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may have been involved with this type of technology.

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And this type of technology may also, for example, explain those cases where people show up with radiation burns

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after seeing unusual things in the sky.

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Jim Wilson and other prominent members of the scientific community now believe that projects like Project Mogul,

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Operation High Dive, Project Excelsior, and the lenticular reentry vehicle are just the tip of the iceberg.

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They predict the government still has much more to reveal about other top-secret projects

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carried out in the skies above the New Mexico Desert beginning in the 1940s.

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So while the government may still be involved in a cover-up, it's a cover-up that has nothing to do with aliens

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and much to do with military secrecy.

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Despite the continuing controversy about the government's role in the Roswell case,

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more and more experts do agree on one thing.

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But the evidence to prove an alien presence at Roswell probably does not exist.

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If a saucer had crashed at Roswell, you would have seen evidence in national security policy of an effort to do something about it.

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You would have seen the development of countermeasures.

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You would have seen the development of detection devices.

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And there would have been a whole focus on the problem of the possibility of alien invasion from another planet.

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You didn't see it.

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You saw all kinds of reactions in terms of billions of dollars and all sorts of people to Earthly threats

458
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and not a thing to do with anything possibly from another planet.

459
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After years of research, two massive government reports and the testimony of hundreds of witnesses all documented in these 11 boxes,

460
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there is still no tangible evidence of an alien crash landing at Roswell.

461
00:39:35,680 --> 00:39:42,680
But that lack of concrete evidence may never convince the UFO true believers.

462
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The fundamental problem that the government has always had with the Roswell incident is that it has to prove a negative.

463
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It has to prove it doesn't have a flying saucer.

464
00:39:57,680 --> 00:40:00,680
And how do you prove you don't have something?

465
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,680
You cannot disprove something.

466
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:12,680
Particularly when belief in the existence of the Roswell crash is so attractive.

467
00:40:12,680 --> 00:40:16,680
Hundreds of thousands of people visit Roswell each year.

468
00:40:16,680 --> 00:40:21,680
Glenn Dennis and Walter Hott, two of the principals in the Roswell story,

469
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are now co-owners of the UFO International Research Center, one of the town's biggest tourist attractions.

470
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:34,680
And Roswell itself has been transformed by public interest in UFOs.

471
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What was once a sleepy farming community is now a thriving city of 50,000.

472
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Roswell is like a circus. If you go to the circus or if you go to a side show, it's fun.

473
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But if you believe it, then you've made a big mistake.

474
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So it's kind of like wink, wink, this is fun. Wouldn't it be great if it was real?

475
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But unfortunately there are a lot of people who are saying not wink, wink, but they're saying this is real.

476
00:41:01,680 --> 00:41:09,680
And we really did have alien beings from another planet crash year back in 1947.

477
00:41:09,680 --> 00:41:13,680
Regardless of what experts and investigators now say about Roswell,

478
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more than 50 years after Mac Brazell found that pile of debris in the desert,

479
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public interest in the case continues to grow.

480
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:28,680
I can't imagine that Roswell will be a case closed for the UFO community,

481
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not after this Air Force report, not after any government report.

482
00:41:33,680 --> 00:41:36,680
More than 50 years after the first sightings,

483
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one quarter of all inquiries received by the Air Force Public Information Office

484
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still relate to what happened in the desert skies.

485
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It's a dream come true to discover the answer to the ultimate question, are we alone?

486
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And are we the only intelligent being in all this vast universe?

487
00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:10,680
If aliens are crashed at Roswell, it is one of the most important events in human history.

488
00:42:10,680 --> 00:42:13,680
Suddenly we know we're not alone in the universe.

489
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:16,680
Roswell is a case that will never die, I think.

490
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I think that the mythology of Roswell, the legend of Roswell,

491
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has taken on the life of its own and it's bigger and stronger than the reality.

492
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These are the things that can render us extinct.