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Why it matters
The government's last word on Roswell until AARO. Critics point out the dummies were dropped years after 1947.
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The Roswell Report: Case Closed
The Air Force's second Roswell report tackled stories of alien bodies. It traced them to crash-test dummies dropped from high-altitude balloons in the 1950s and to real accidents, including a 1956 KC-97 crash, which witnesses may have merged with 1947 in memory.