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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 Headquarters United States Air Force report by Captain James McAndrew that follows up the 1994 Air Force report on the Roswell Incident. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from Project MOGUL balloons. It also says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. Claims of bodies at the Roswell hospital most likely combined a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

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“Project 1947”19 pages

  • p. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB—1947…
  • p. 14 …Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 "Roswell" events…
  • p. 15 …earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to…
  • p. 17 …Force report determined that project MOGUL was responsible for the 1947 events. MOGUL was an experimental…
  • p. 18 …An illustration of a Project MOGUL balloon train similar to one found on a ranch 75…
  • p. 19 …in June 1947. When compared to a standard radar target used by project MOGUL, it is…
  • p. 20 …This account from the July 9, 1947 Roswell Daily Record, described the materials "tinfoil, paper, rubber…
  • p. 21 …technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon train on June 4, 1947, that when combined…
  • p. 22 …landing site of a Project MOGUL balloon train in June 1947. $ ^{10} $ The MOGUL landing site…
  • p. 23 …July, 1947—in order to "fit" with the rest of the story. The actual Project MOGUL…
  • p. 24 …Roswell area in July 1947. Examination of research and development projects, aircraft crashes, errant missiles and…
  • p. 50 …Polyethylene balloons, first produced in 1947 for Project MOGUL, are still widely used today for a…
  • p. 52 …AFB which began with the Project MOGUL flights in June 1947, covered a wide spectrum of…
  • p. 64 …Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy…
  • p. 87 …9, 1947. These dates coincide with an actual event: the retrieval of experimental Project MOGUL research…
  • p. 131 …Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New…
  • p. 154 …1947-1958), 11. 165. ibid., and Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request- Project…
  • p. 157 …Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request-Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight…
  • p. 224 . Summary Report Project Moby Dick: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952…
## Notes - Section One

1. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 20-22.

2. ibid.

3. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 14.

4. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 20-22.

5. Ted Bloecher, Report of the UFO Wave of 1947 (Washington D.C.: author, 1967), I-13-14.

6. Combined History, 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Airfield, 1 July-31 July 1947, 39, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.

7. Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947, 1.

8. Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan, November 4, 1992.

9. Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New Mexico, UFO Crash (Mount Ranier, Md.: The Fund for UFO Research, 1995), 2.

10. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Attachment 32, Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings, by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, 9.

11. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 14.

12. Video, Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Gerald Anderson interview (Washington, D.C.: Fund for UFO Research, 1993) (hereafter Recollections of Roswell, Part II).

13. James Ragsdale, transcript of interview with Donald R. Schmitt, January 26, 1994.

14. Frank J. Kaufman, interview with Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, January 27, 1990.

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