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Alternative Explanations for the Wreckage in New Mexico, starting with the official cover story of the weather balloon. More recently, alternative ex- planations have been proposed by writers on both sides of the UFO-reality debate, in some cases because general acceptance of the nature of the crashes would repudiate their own theories and published writings. But if what crashed in New Mexico weren't alien craft, what were they? Several other explanations have been offered for the strange materials and even for the bodies of miniature humanoids, which many people have testified were recovered from two widely separated crash sites at about the same time. Actually, these terrestrial explanations are for the Corona site wreckage only, as what was allegedly found at the Plains of San Agustin was clearly alien. While the authors find none of these alternate explanations particularly convincing, they deserve to be mentioned in the cause of objectivity. QO THER EXPLANATIONS have been offered for what crashed 141