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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.

  • p. 11 …1955 Time Magazine Depicting Lt. Col. John P. Stapp. 35. Anthropomorphic Dummy with Missing Fingers. 36…
  • p. 87 …Dennis, the "missing" nurse, and the unidentified pediatrician inadvertently stumbled onto the highly classified autopsies of…
  • p. 89 ## 2.1 The "Missing" Nurse and the Pediatrician To illustrate the errors in this account and…
  • p. 91 …An additional similarity between Fanton and the "missing nurse" is that her personnel record indicated that…
  • p. 94 …Another possible indication that he recalled events from a different time was the description of an…
  • p. 95 …to "Captain Wilson" several times in reference to the alleged missing nurse. $ ^{79} $ He claims that…
  • p. 97 …95} $ ## Results of Missing Nurse and Pediatrician Research Examination of the missing nurse and the pediatrician…
  • p. 98 some of his statements, especially regarding the time frame of these events. The following facts have…
  • p. 99 …Based on the time period established by personnel records and statements contained in the witness' own…
  • p. 103 …The large balloon, which matched eyewitnesses' descriptions at the time, was released the previous day, and…
  • p. 105 …However, neither recalled that a nurse was missing or any of the other activities as described…
Fig.1. The Roswell Report Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert contains, in its entirety, the report submitted to the Secretary of the Air Force in July 1994. It is available for sale from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C., 20402-9328. Stock No. 008-070-00697-9, ISBN 0-16-048023-X.

Subsequent to the 1994 report, Air Force researchers discovered information that provided a rational explanation for the alleged observations of alien bodies associated with the "Roswell Incident." Pursuant to the discovery, research efforts compared documented Air Force activities to the incredible claims of "flying saucers," "aliens" and seemingly unusual Air Force involvement. This in-depth examination revealed that these accounts, in most instances, were of actual Air Force activities but were seriously flawed in several major areas, most notably: the Air Force operations that inspired reports of "bodies" (in addition to being earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to establish the accurate dates for these "alien" observations (in some instances by more than a decade) and then erroneously linked them to the actual Project MOGUL debris recovery.

This report discusses the results of this further research and identifies the likely sources of the claims of "alien" bodies. Contrary to allegations that the Air Force has engaged in a cover-up and possesses dark secrets involving the Roswell claims, some of the accounts appear to be descriptions of unclassified and widely publicized Air Force scientific achievements. Other descriptions of bodies appear to be descriptions of actual incidents in which Air Force members were killed or injured in the line of duty.

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