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From: yogi@iadfw.net [Bill Ralls]
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 1997 18:59:22 -0500
Fwd Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 02:22:47 -0400
Subject: 'Aliens' were just dummies, U.S. says
Errol and All,
This may be old news, but I thought it interesting. If anyone has
additional information concerning this, I would appreciate hearing
about it.
Regards,
Bill Ralls
UFO World http://ufo-world.simplenet.com/ufo.html
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'Aliens' were just dummies, U.S. says
'Bodies' reportedly used to test chutes
SOURCE: Ft.Worth Star Telegram
By Bill Hendrick - Cox News Service
ATLANTA - Long accused by UFO buffs of covering up visits by weird-
looking beings from outer space, the Pentagon plans to issue a report
soon contending that alien-like bodies have fallen from the skies over
New Mexico: man-made dummies.
Rubbery, humanoid-shaped dummies with no body hair, ears or noses.
According to the report, the dummies were part of secret tests on
high-altitude parachuting, plunging to the ground from giant balloons
in the 1940s and 1950s says Philip J. Klass, a scientist and author of
six books debunking UFOs as imaginary.
Pentagon spokeswoman Gloria Cales said Tuesday that the report will
be issued soon, that it contains "some surprises," but that there is
no evidence that UFOs have ever visited Earth.
Klass, 77, a longtime board member of the journal Skeptical Inquirer,
said he has seen a copy of the 248-page report, which includes about
100 photographs.
He said the Air Force prepared it as a follow-up to a 1994 study in
which it conceded that the government lied in 1947 when it said a
weather balloon had crashed near Roswell, N.M., instead of a flying
saucer as announced by the Army.
On July 8,1947, the Army said a "flying disc" had been captured. But
later, after being examined by high-ranking officers at Carswell Air
Force Base in Fort Worth, the debris was identified as a weather
balloon.
The 1994 Air Force report said that what crashed in 1947 wasn't a
weather balloon, but a top-secret spying device to detect Soviet
nuclear blasts.
The just-completed report was prepared because UFO buffs complained
that the 1994 study did not address persistent claims that tiny alien
bodies were found after the crash, Klass said in an interview.
The new report will say the Air Force dropped human-like dummies to
test high-altitude parachute-recovery techniques, Klass said. Some
dummies were human size, but others were small - similar to
descriptions of alien creatures that have circulated for 50 years.
"The report will suggest that perhaps some of the alleged
recollections of alien spacecraft and ET bodies may stem from those
tests," Klass said.
Time magazine also reported Monday that the Air Force will reveal
that it used dummies, misidentified by UFO buffs as aliens.
UFO buffs have long accused the Air Force and the entire government
of covering up what it knows about UFOs.
The 1994 report was done at the request of Rep. Steven Schiff, R-N.M.
It was followed in 1995 by a report from the General Accounting Office
that said many dispatches about the Roswell crash had been lost.
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