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From: BOB SHELL <76750.2717@CompuServe.COM>
Date: 18 Jun 97 09:28:11 EDT
Fwd Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 10:32:05 -0400
Subject: Time: New Roswell Explanation (Weaver)

>Subject: Explanation of "New Roswell Explanation" rumors
>To:  alt.alien.visitors
>From latest issue of _Time_ (you can find it on the web through
><http://pathfinder.com/>
-----
>Later this month, the Air Force will release the results of its second
>study, launched after UFOlogists complained that its 1994 report did
>not address the issue of alien bodies. ("It seemed rational to us,"
>explains the Air Force's Weaver, "that since we proved there were no
>UFOs, it automatically meant no aliens.")

>For a few years after 1947, the report will explain, the Air Force
>conducted experiments that involved dropping dummies from high-altitude
>balloons to study the results of the impact. Witnesses' descriptions of
>the "aliens," the Air Force notes, closely match the characteristics of
>the dummies: 3 1/2 ft. to 4 ft. tall, bluish skin coloration and no
>ears, hair, eyebrows or eyelashes.

>"What quite likely happened," says Weaver, "is that people who saw
>these dummies mistook them for aliens." And, he notes, because no
>mention of aliens was made until 1978, those "who were interviewed were
>trying to recall events that took place 30 years earlier." Weaver
>blames UFOlogists for "linking" these sightings, which occurred after
>1947, to the original Roswell incident.


If you buy that, I've got some nice property in Brooklyn for sale --
Cheap!

Bob

P.S.:  Does it seem to anybody else that the Air Force is
grasping at straws here?  Does this seem like part of a
"debunk at all costs" strategy?  Does it sound like an act
of desperation?

BTW, are they going to tell us that one of these dummies is
what is sliced and diced in the AA film?????