When the U.S. Air Force released "The Roswell Report: Case Closed" in 1997 as part of its 50-year-long effort to debunk the reality that a flying saucer crashed in the New Mexico desert in 1947, the mainstream media had at its fingertips a chance to blow the lid off of the government's UFO cover-up. Instead of recognizing the preposterousness of the Air Force's contention outlined in the book that dead aliens witnesses saw in 1947 were actually anthropomorphic dummies used in high-altitude balloon drops in the 1950s, the mainstream media bought the story hook, line and sinker and never bothered to investigate the outrageous contention further.