These remains at Roswell’s UFO museum aren’t real, but
polls show nearly half of all Americans believe in aliens.mythology, includ-
ing alien bodies, mul-
tiple crash sites, and
an aggressive military
cover-up.THE FACTS: Under pres-
sure from the public,
in 1997 the Air Force
ordered an investiga-
tion into the extraordi-
nary claims. It turns out
that Dennis wasn’t very
good with dates.
For example, he re-
called going to the base
one day and finding ev-
eryone agitated. He re-
membered a red-haired
colonel, accompanied
by a black sergeant, throwing him
off the base. Dennis pointed to this
as part of the cover-up. But it likely
didn’t happen in 1947, because the Air
Force did not begin racial integration
until 1949. And the only red-haired
colonel ever stationed there didn’t
arrive until 1954.
Dennis also recalled an Air Force
nurse friend being very upset over the
autopsy of three small bodies that were
mangled, burned black, and emitting
noxious fumes. In fact, these bodies
came from a 1956 crash of a KC-97G
aircraft, which killed all 11 crew mem-
bers in an intense cabin fire. Three of
the charred corpses were soaked in fuel
and had to be moved from the military
base because of the strong fumes.ROSWELL: SPACESHIPS,
ALIENS, AND COVER-UPSn 1947, after some strange de-
bris was found near Roswell
Army Air Field (RAAF) in New
Mexico, the local newspaper ran
the headline “RAAF Captures
Flying Saucer on Ranch in Roswell
Region.” The next day, the Roswell
Daily Record printed a correction,
stating that it was merely debris from
a weather balloon. The coverage
raised few eyebrows until 1991, when
retired Roswell mortician Glenn Den-
nis wrote a book based on his 44-year-
old memories with “ufologist” Stanton
Friedman. Their reconstruction forms
the entire basis of the modern Roswell102 may 2019
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