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...Martian air force will now undoubtedly claim that Pathfinder is a weather balloon it intentionally dropped from the sky." KEN LEVIN Novato, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 4, 1997 | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

Inning two, Boise: In the middle of the inning, while the teams switch, my mom's co-worker uses an elastic slingshot to get a water balloon into a hot tub being pulled around the field by a pickup truck. She wins the tub. We cheer. The Hawks get on the board. We clap...

Author: By Valerie J. Macmillan, | Title: Two Sides of America's Favorite Pastime | 7/25/1997 | See Source »

...buffs were quick to note that the report didn't solve all, since Air Force records show the dummies were not used until a good decade after the 1947 Roswell incident. Coupled with a 1994 report that said the "flying saucer" found in 1947 was actually an Air Force balloon used to monitor the atmosphere for evidence of Soviet nuclear tests, the Air Force now insists that it has refuted all charges that the government actually recovered several extraterrestrial bodies and a UFO when a mysterious aircraft crashed at Roswell. But UFO researchers point out that the two stories have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aliens or Dummies | 6/24/1997 | See Source »

...wreckage of a "flying disk," sparking incredulous news stories around the world. A few hours later, a general at the regional Army Air Force command in Fort Worth, Texas, where the debris had been sent for further analysis, announced that what had really been recovered was a weather balloon. This is the indisputable core of the Roswell Incident. Whether one chooses to believe that the government has been covering up an affair involving extraterrestrials is, of course, a more subjective matter. But because Roswell represents the only time the U.S. military has gone on record saying that flying saucers exist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSWELL OR BUST | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

...real truth, assuming it doesn't involve a weather balloon, is made harder to get at by the sometimes mutable memories of aging "witnesses" and the fact that some of the most provocative evidence is secondhand. Industrious UFOlogists may spend years tracking down slim leads like the one attributed to a former cafe owner in Taos, N.M., who told interlocutors that an old customer, a desert rat named Cactus Jack, once told her he was "out there when the spaceship came down" and saw dead aliens with blood "like tar." But despite the best efforts of Kevin Randle and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ROSWELL OR BUST | 6/23/1997 | See Source »

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