Then years later, the government said that bodies seen were test dummies parachuted from planes. Why change the story if the original was true?
The Air Force was stupid to play into the hands of the saucer buffs with the "dummies" thing.
It would have been much better to simply point out that none of the original Roswell witnesses ever claimed to have seen bodies. The "bodies" stories didn't crop up until the 70s and had nothing to do with the original report.