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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. 6 …Air Force scientific research projects High DIVE and EXCELSIOR. Appendix B is a collection of signed…
  • p. 20 …There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for…
  • p. 116 …In his 1961 book, The Long, Lonely Leap, Kittinger described this self-imposed secrecy regarding Project…
  • p. 140 …Part II, Anderson interview. 142. ibid. 143. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col…
  • p. 169 …During my Air Force career I was involved in many different scientific research projects including the…
  • p. 172 Another project I was involved with was the Air Force investigations of UFOs. Project Bluebook. Since…
  • p. 174 …Another project I participated in was the testing of the Viking space probe in 1972. These…
  • p. 177 …I knew there was a project on UFOs called Bluebook, at the base, but to my…
  • p. 185 …Never during this time were "aliens" or "flying saucers" a part of any project. There were…
The conclusions of the additional research are:

- Air Force activities which occurred over a period of many years have been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred in two or three days in July 1947.

Fig.2. Roswell, N.M. (pop. 37,000), boasts competing "museums" focusing on the Roswell Incident, including this one, The International UFO Museum and Research Center.

- "Aliens" observed in the New Mexico desert were probably anthropomorphic test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high altitude balloons for scientific research.

- The "unusual" military activities in the New Mexico desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery operations. The reports of military units that always seemed to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to retrieve the saucer and "crew," were actually accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations.

- Claims of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital were most likely a combination of two separate incidents:

1) a 1956 KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force members lost their lives; and,

2) a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force pilots were injured.

This report is based on thoroughly documented research supported by official records, technical reports, film footage, photographs, and interviews with individuals who were involved in these events.

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