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Folklore maintains a flying saucer full of aliens crashed in 1947 in the
desert near Roswell, New Mexico. But now the US Air Force has released a report
saying it was a high-altitude balloon with dummies on board that crashed. “The
Roswell Report: Case Closed” is front-page news on the Air Force’s home page at
http://www.af.mil/.

If you were hoping to leaf through the 230-page report for free, you’re out
of luck—all you can do online is order it. The 12 000-word summary is at
http://www.af.mil/lib/roswell.html, but it dates from 1994 and does not mention
the new evidence.

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