In July 1997 the United States AirForce released the Roswell Report: Case Closed to clear up the mystery surrounding the Roswell Incident. Detailed in the report were official explanations of the Roswell Incident that happened in Roswell New Mexico 50 years earlier. The report concludes that no extra terrestrial ship or alien beings were recovered in Roswell. The recovered bodies were not 'extra terrestrials' but dummies used in parachute tests and the 'crashed extra terrestrial ship' was a high altitude balloon used to detect nuclear explosions.

The dummies, reported to have been involved in the Roswell Incident, were used for projects code named Excelsior and High Dive. These projects involved life-size dummies being lifted to high altitudes by balloons and dropped-parachuting to the ground. The tests were conducted in the New Mexico desert and designed to measure the survivability of pilots ejecting at high altitudes.

The crashed extra terrestrial ship supposedly involved in the Roswell Incident was really a high altitude balloon used in a secret program called Project Mogul. Project Mogul, was an experiment designed to monitor the earth's upper atmosphere for evidence of radiation which would provide proof of Soviet nuclear tests.

Skeptics, who believe that there was indeed a crash of an extra terrestrial ship and alien bodies were recovered in 1947, were not satisfied by the US AirForce's explanation. These skeptics point out the fact that the parachute program started in 1954 and ended in 1959-almost a decade after the Roswell Incident. The US AirForce official statement was that it believes that these dummies dropped in the 50's were mistaken for the objects recovered almost a decade earlier.

Skeptics also point out the fact that it is hard to believe that military personnel of the 509th Bomber Group could have mistaken dummies as extra terrestrials. The 509th was an elite group of men that was involved daily in the testing of the US AirForce's most advanced technology at the time-nuclear weapons and high-powered radar.

Finally, skeptics find it interesting that 50 years after the Roswell Incident the US AirForce is still trying to explain what happened. Why would the US AirForce find it necessary to release this new information after it had already published two reports explaining away the Roswell Incident?

The final outcome of the Roswell Report: Case Closed was the fact that it created more questions than it answered.