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| | Society for Scientific Exploration Journal of Scientific Exploration Statement Validity Analysis of "The Jim Ragsdale Story": Implications for the Roswell Incident |
 | | This testimony, in the form of an affidavit and a less formal conversational account, was analyzed using Statement Validity Analysis (SVA) which is an established technique for evaluating the credibility of forensic witness accounts, and Fact Pattern Analysis which is a less formal procedure that complements SVA. |
 | | Stephen Porter, University of British Columbia, Department of Psychology, 2509-2136 W. Mall, University Campus, Vancouver, B. "The Jim Ragsdale Story" purports to be the only known first-hand testimony to the alleged UFO crash near Roswell, New Mexico in 1947. |
 | | Accordingly, the possibilities that the Ragsdale story represents a deliberate fabrication or sincerely reported memories of imagined experience are discussed. |
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