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was just misinterpreted. The only part of the testimony Me Andrew really takes
issue with is the part about the military threatening civilians and ordering them
out because it was top secret. He claims the military would have never acted in
such an unscrupulous, unprofessional manner, and that to go around yelling that
something is top secret would have been counterproductive. Case Closed zeroes
in on the fact that Anderson described the “bodies” as looking like “plastic
dolls” from a distance, but doesn’t address the fact that he said one of the adults
in the party was trying to communicate with one of them, or that in other
interviews he has said it appeared that one of them was injured, but still
breathing.
Case Closed marked the fiftieth anniversary of the Roswell Incident, and
the military hoped this would put an end to all the speculation and inquiries.
Military officials appeared on TV answering questions, and reiterating that the
Roswell Incident was a combination of Air Force activities occurring over a
period of many years, now consolidated and represented to have occurred in
1947. They claimed the “alien bodies” were merely the anthropomorphic test
dummies dropped from balloons in the mid 1950s. And they responded to the
question of the “aliens” being put into body bags as merely being a protective
measure to protect the dummies. They also noted some of the reports of alien
bodies could have resulted from a 1956 aircraft accident in which 11 crew
members lost their lives, and a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air
Force pilots were injured. Captain McAndrew claims most of the reports relating
to the Roswell Incident come from Project Mogul, the Army Air Forces balloonborne research project. His report states most of these records were never
classified, were publicly available, and published in one volume for ease of
access for the general public. This is a direct contradiction to Charles B.
Moore’s statements that the project was so top secret and classified that he did
not even know the name of it until 1992.
Is the Roswell Incident merely a modem myth or is there