Editing Roswell incident (section)

==Air Force response==
{{see also|List of investigations of UFOs by governments}}
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Under pressure from New Mexico congressman [[Steven Schiff]] and the [[Government Accountability Office|General Accounting Office]] (GAO),<ref>{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|pp=214, 227–228}}</ref> the Air Force provided official responses to Roswell conspiracy theories during the mid-1990s.<ref name="Kloor-2019-p52">{{harvnb|Kloor|2019|p=52}}</ref> The initial 1994 USAF report admitted that the weather balloon explanation was a cover story, but for [[Project Mogul]], a military surveillance program.<ref name="Frazier-2017b"/><ref>{{harvnb|Dept. of Air Force|1994|loc="Executive Summary", "Balloon Research"}}</ref> Published the following year, ''The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert'' supported this with extensive documentation that narrowed the cause of the debris to a specific Mogul balloon train launched on June 4, 1947, and lost near the Roswell debris field.<ref>{{harvnb|Clarke|2015|loc=ch.&nbsp;6, para.&nbsp;16}}</ref> Within the UFO community, the reports were not accepted.<ref>{{harvnb|Clarke|2015|loc=ch.&nbsp;6, para.&nbsp;17}}</ref> The UFO community dismissed the reports as containing no information about [[Majestic 12|alleged Majestic 12 group]] or extraterrestrial corpses but noted that the reports did admit the 1947 account to have been false.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p214">{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|pp=214–215}}</ref> Contemporary polls found that the majority of Americans doubted the Air Force explanation.<ref>{{harvnb|ABC News|2005|p=3}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Goldberg|2001|p=225}}</ref>

News media and skeptical researchers embraced the findings.<ref name="Goldberg-2001-p214"/> Project Mogul offered a cohesive explanation for the contemporary accounts of the debris{{snd}}failing only to explain later conflicting additions.<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|pp=152–155}}</ref> [[Carl Sagan]] and [[Phillip J. Klass|Phil Klass]] noted that aspects of the debris reported as anomalous{{snd}}including the abstract symbols and lightweight foil{{snd}}matched the materials used by Project Mogul.<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=117–122}}</ref><ref name="Sagan-1997-p82"/> Mogul also matched the materials of the hypothetical "disc" as described in a 1947 FBI [[telex]] from [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. The telex said that according to the Eighth Air Force, "The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by cable, which balloon was approximately twenty feet (6 m) in diameter."<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=16–17}}: "EIGHTH AIR FORCE, TELEPHONICALLY ADVISED THIS OFFICE THAT AN OBJECT PURPORTING TO BE A FLYING DISC WAS RE COVERED NEAR ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO, THIS DATE. THE DISC IS HEXAGONAL IN SHAPE AND WAS SUSPENDED FROM A BALLON BY CABLE, WHICH BALLON WAS APPROXIMATELY TWENTY FEET IN DIAMETER. [REDACTED] FURTHER ADVISED THAT THE OBJECT FOUND RESEMBLES A HIGH ALTITUDE WEATHER BALLOON WITH A RADAR REFLECTOR, BUT THAT TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION BETWEEN THEIR OFFICE AND WRIGHT FIELD HAD NOT BORNE OUT THIS BELIEF. DISC AND BALLOON BEING TRANSFERRED TO WRIGHT FIELD BY SPECIAL PLANE FOR EXAMINATION."</ref><ref name="Pflock 2001 150–151"/> In 1997, the Air Force published a second report, ''The Roswell Report: Case Closed''. It detailed how eyewitness accounts of military personnel loading aliens into "body bags" matched the Air Force's procedures for retrieving parachute test dummies in insulation bags, designed to shield temperature-sensitive equipment in the desert.<ref>{{harvnb|Broad|1997|page=A3}}</ref>