The 1990s. Project Blue Book is decades closed. The CIA acknowledges historical UFO work. Most of what survives the era is foreign government and journalism, not US government disclosure.
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Building on its 1994 finding that Project MOGUL balloon debris explained the 'flying disc' recovery, the 1997 Air Force follow-up addresses the outstanding 'alien bodies' question. The report attributes witness accounts of alien bodies to anthropomorphic test dummies carried aloft for high-altitude balloon research under Projects HIGH DIVE and EXCELSIOR, events that occurred years after 1947. Body reports at the Roswell AAF hospital are pinned to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap. The Air Force's core analytical claim is that UFO proponents incorrectly compressed activities spanning many years into the two or three days of the original 1947 incident.
→ Roswell Report: Case Closed, 1997
Produced by the Air Force's Office of Air Force History in response to Congressional inquiries, this report represents the service's formal, on-the-record position on Roswell. The conclusion: debris recovered near Roswell in July 1947 came from Project Mogul, classified balloon train arrays designed to acoustically monitor Soviet nuclear tests. The report frames prior secrecy as a function of Cold War classification rather than concealment of UAP evidence; Mogul's secrecy in 1947 was genuine, giving Air Force officials a plausible rationale for deflection that didn't require acknowledging the project's existence.
→ Roswell Report: Fact vs Fiction, 1994
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