The only problem with making this the explanation in "Case Closed" was that the dummy drops occurred between 1953 and 1959, and not anywhere near 1947. But McAndrew realized that the best way to get around this discrepancy is to make the witnesses appear even more stupid by contending they got their years mixed up. McAndrew also made it a point not to interview the many first-hand and second-hand witnesses who claimed to see alien bodies. Instead, he stuck with a mere handful.

"Case Closed" is actually is a great comedic offering. Perhaps McAndrew missed his true calling? For instance, one of the witnesses interviewed by McAndrew was Gerald Anderson, who was a mere lad of five when he saw alien bodies in 1947. Anderson told McAndrew, according to the book, that when he saw the bodies, "'I thought they were plastic dolls … I didn't think they were real." Anderson also told McAndrew that the crashed saucer looked like a "'blimp,'" according to "Case Closed."

In his assessment of Anderson's statements, McAndrew concluded that Anderson's terms "strongly suggests that a balloon with an anthropomorphic dummy payload was the foundation for this testimony."

As for Anderson's statement that the crewmembers looked like "'plastic dolls.'" McAndrew opined that that "seems an odd choice of words to describe an extraterrestrial being and is a likely reference to an anthropomorphic dummy whose skin was made of plastic."

Oh, really? Why is it an odd choice of words? How does McAndrew know what an extraterrestrial being looks like if he supposedly never saw one? Later in the book, McAndrew states that "it is clear anthropomorphic dummies were responsible for these accounts." How is it clear? He interviewed only several witnesses, he offered no proof whatsoever to his contention, and the book in no way closes the case of Roswell. Every contention McAndrew makes in the book is his opinion. Although factual information regarding the Air Force dummy drop operation is presented, McAndrew takes it upon himself to tie it to the Roswell incident without factual information.

As for reports that aliens were seen at the Roswell AAF hospital in 1947, "Case Closed" contends that they are "most probably" rooted in an accident that occurred in 1959! Capt. Dan D. Fulgham, according to the book, suffered a "traumatic hematoma" on his forehead after being struck by a balloon gondola in Roswell. "Case Closed" even includes a photograph of Fulgham shortly after the accident wearing a large bandage on his head.

But how is Fulgham's accident "most probably" responsible for the events that were reported in Roswell in 1947? It happened 12 years later. How is that believable?

Why did no editor from the Washington Post or New York Times realize that McAndrew's contention was completely ridiculous and assign a slew of reporters on the story to uncover the truth? Did anybody in the mainstream media even read the book? Did they merely cut and paste excerpts from the Air Force press release and move on with their lives?

Regarding threats made to civilians, McAndrew stated that these allegations "are profoundly inaccurate." "Threats, intimidation, or other types of misconduct by Balloon Branch personnel would have served no purpose since without the cooperation of local persons, many recoveries (of weather balloons and dummies) would not have been possible," he wrote. The problem with McAndrew's statement here is that a number of civilians said they were threatened with death if they ever talked about what they saw or heard. They weren't being threatened to keep quiet about finding dummies or balloons in the desert. Of course, the military would never threaten civilians to keep quiet about dummies and/or balloons. Civilians would be threatened, however, if what they saw were a crashed flying saucer and dead alien bodies.

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