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Article: AIR FORCE FIRES AT OLD UFO RUMORS UNDENIABLY FABRICATED OBJECTS?(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- June 25, 1997
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There was weirdness in the skies over the post-World War II desert around Roswell, N.M., all right, just not the extra-terrestrial sort embraced by legions of UFO fans, according to a U.S. Air Force study released yesterday.
There was no crashed spacecraft, no mangled aliens, the Air Force said in ``The Roswell Report.''
Instead, top secret balloons, plastic research dummies, grisly burn victims and a temporarily deformed captain, mixed with badly faded memories and outright fraud combusted into America's most durable flying saucer story, the study said.
Subtitled optimistically ``Case Closed,'' the report is actually the second lengthy effort ...