Editing Roswell incident (section)

===Anthropomorphic dummies===
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The 1947 Roswell accounts did not mention alien bodies.<ref name="Frazier-2017b"/>  None of the primary eyewitnesses mentioned bodies.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|p=70}}</ref> Jesse Marcel dismissed the reports when asked,<ref>{{harvnb|Klass|1997b|pp=186, 198}}</ref> and Roswell authors interviewed only four people with supposed firsthand knowledge of alien bodies.<ref>{{harvnb|Pflock|2001|p=118}}:  "These are Frank Kaufmann, who also claimed to have seen a crash survivor; the late Jim Ragsdale; a Lt. Col. Albert Lovejoy Duran; and one Gerald Anderson, who, like Kaufmanno told not only of seeing bodies but also a survivor, this at a third alleged crash site on the Plains of San Agustin in Catron County, about two hundred miles west-northwest of Roswell."</ref> The claims of alien bodies{{snd}}made decades later by elderly witnesses, sometimes as death-bed confessions{{snd}}contradict each other in basic details such as the location of the crash, the number of extraterrestrials, and the description of the bodies.<ref>{{harvnb|Korff|1997|loc=ch.&nbsp;3, pp.&nbsp;92, 104–105}}</ref>

The 1997 Air Force report concluded that the alleged "bodies" reported by later eyewitnesses came from memories of accidents involving military casualties and memories of the recovery of [[Crash test dummy|anthropomorphic dummies]].<ref name="Broad-1997-p18">{{harvnb|Broad|1997|p=18}}</ref> Military programs, such as the 1950s [[Operation High Dive]], released test dummies from high-altitude balloons above the New Mexico Desert.<ref name="Broad-1997-p18"/> The Air Force concluded that the number of accounts of body retrievals suggested an explanation other than dishonesty, and that the retrieval process for their dummies resembled the body retrieval stories in many aspects.<ref>{{harvnb|Gildenberg|2003|p=70}}</ref> The dummies were transported using [[stretcher]]s, casket-shaped crates, and sometimes insulation bags that resembled [[body bag]]s.<ref name="McAndrew-1997-pp35-36"/> Descriptions of "weapons carriers" and a "jeeplike truck that had a bunch of radios" matched the [[Dodge M37]] used for 1950s test retrievals.<ref>{{harvnb|McAndrew|1997|pp=65, 72}}</ref> Eyewitnesses described the purported bodies as bald, "dummies", resembling "plastic dolls", and wearing flight suits. These attributes were consistent with Air Force dummies used in the 1950s.<ref>{{harvnb|Gildenberg|2003|p=71}}</ref>