Your Burning Questions About The Roswell Incident, Answered
Anthropomorphic test dummies U.S. Air Force The Popular Science archive answers those nagging questions about the July 1947 UFO crash in the desert outside of Roswell, N.M. Today's Google Doodle celebrates the UFO incident near Roswell, N.M. that happened 66 years ago yesterday. On June 24, 1997, the U.S. Air Force released a 231-page report called "Case Closed: Final Report on the Roswell Crash." Officials claimed that the aliens seen by witnesses were actually anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high-altitude research balloons. In the September 1997 issue of Popular Science, editor Dawn Stover addressed the questions still lingering after the government declared "case closed." What are we to believe about the "Roswell Incident," the alleged crash in July 1947 of an extraterrestrial spacecraft near Roswell, New Mexico? The Air Force's recent report contends that "aliens" were human-like dummies dropped during high-altitude balloon tests. True believers counter with photos of a "fragment" from...