“Roswell”60+ pages
- p. 1 ## THE
ROSWELL
REPORT
CASE
CLOSED
19970625 053
19970625 053
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A
Approved for public release…
- p. 3 # The Roswell Report
Headquarters United States Air Force
DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A Approved for public release; Distribution…
- p. 4 ## Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McAndrew, James, 1963-
The Roswell report : case closed / James…
- p. 5 # Foreword
The "Roswell Incident" has assumed a central place in American folklore since the events of…
- p. 6 …Section Two examines the alleged activities at the Roswell Army Airfield Hospital.
Appendix A is a…
- p. 7 …Weaver, of The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995), the first…
- p. 8 …55
SECTION TWO
Reports of Bodies at Roswell
Army Air Field Hospital ... 75
2.1 The…
- p. 9 …69
SECTION TWO
2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
- p. 10 …The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction In The New Mexico Desert.
2. The International UFO Museum…
- p. 11 …VIKING Spaceprobe at Roswell Industrial Airport, Roswell, N.M.
55. VIKING Space Probe Awaiting Recovery at…
- p. 13 …Ballard Funeral Home, Roswell, N.M.
10. Maj. David G. Simons (MC), Otto C. Winzen, and…
- p. 14 …Reports of flying saucers and alien bodies allegedly sighted in the Roswell area in 1947, have…
- p. 15 …The Roswell Report Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert contains, in its entirety, the…
- p. 16 …37,000), boasts competing "museums" focusing on the Roswell Incident, including this one, The International UFO…
- p. 17 …However, following some initial confusion at Roswell Army Air Field, the "flying disc" was soon identified…
- p. 18 …on a ranch 75 miles northwest of Roswell, N.M. in June 1947, which contains all…
- p. 19 …Jesse Marcel, an intelligence officer from Roswell Army Air Field, with the debris found 75 miles…
- p. 20 …Wilcox got in touch with the Roswell Army Air Field and Maj. Jesse A. Marcel and…
- p. 21 …Since many of the Roswell accounts and allegations were collected by irregular methods and are not…
- p. 22 …This site, located on the Foster Ranch approximately 75 miles northwest of the city of Roswell…
- p. 23 …The actual Project MOGUL landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility, and more importantly…
- p. 24 …Since the account of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital did not contain elements…
- p. 25 …Gerald Anderson, an alleged witness of events at the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, recalled…
- p. 26 …Vern Maltais, a secondhand witness of the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, described the hands…
- p. 27 …were determined not to have been involved in the "Roswell Incident." (U.S. Air Force photos)
- p. 32 …Dummies of these types were most likely the "aliens" associated with the "Roswell Incident."
Figs. 21…
- p. 33 …military reservations in eastern New Mexico, near Roswell, and in areas surrounding the Tularosa Valley in…
- p. 40 …54} $ On one occasion, just southwest of Roswell, a High Dive project officer, 1st Lt. Raymond…
- p. 43 …by two witnesses as a distinguishing feature of the Roswell aliens. (U.S. Air Force photo)
- p. 44 …Memo taken from Project HIGH DIVE files explaining the loss of a dummy near Roswell, N…
- p. 46 On one occasion northwest of Roswell, a local woman unfamiliar with the test activities arrived at…
- p. 47 …This balloon was launched from Roswell Industrial Air Center (formerly Roswell AAF), Roswell, N.M., to…
- p. 48 …Unsolved Mysteries, featured a segment on the Roswell Incident. The program, hosted by actor Robert Stack…
- p. 52 …air missiles. $ ^{84} $ Various accounts of the "Roswell Incident" often described thin, metal-like materials that…
- p. 54 …Balloon Branch from the former Roswell Army Air Field (now Roswell Industrial Air Center), N.M…
- p. 55 …Air Force high altitude balloons in 1972 at the former Roswell Army Air Field. (NASA)
Tethered…
- p. 56 …In The Truth About the UFO Crash at Roswell, the authors published a drawing of a…
- p. 57 …the area surrounding Roswell. $ ^{98} $ From 1947 to the present, the Roswell area has been the…
- p. 59 …In the flat, featureless desert areas of southeastern New Mexico near Roswell, the parachutes, payloads, the…
- p. 60 …and circling aircraft in the desert near Roswell were part of a balloon recovery mission, and…
- p. 61 …This bulldozer was rented for one recovery in the Sacramento mountains west of Roswell. （photo collection…
- p. 65 # "Crash" Site 1 (Allegedly North of Roswell)
This summarized account is the basis for the alleged…
- p. 67 …of Roswell)
This purported flying saucer "crash" site is allegedly 175 miles northwest of Roswell in…
- p. 69 …The firsthand testimony is examined next.
## The Firsthand Account
This testimony became part of the Roswell…
- p. 70 …of the other crash site, north of Roswell, who described the "aliens" as "dummies." $ ^{138} $ Other…
- p. 74 …at the other crash site north of Roswell, were also described. Witnesses at the two different…
- p. 76 …A witness to the "crash site" north of Roswell, Mr. James Ragsdale, was not certain of…
- p. 77 …In the popular Roswell scenarios, witnesses were allegedly instructed by military personnel to leave the area…
- p. 78 …Site North of Roswell "Crash Site" 2 - Site 175 miles Northwest of Roswell Shaded areas indicates…
- p. 84 SECTION TWO
# Reports of Bodies at the Roswell AAF Hospital
This section examines the remaining portion…
- p. 85 …The accident victim was an "airman" stationed at Roswell AAF, and Dennis transported the airman to…
- p. 86 …with him at the officers' club at Roswell AAF that afternoon. $ ^{24} $
When the two met…
- p. 87 …The two mysterious doctors at the hospital were sent to Roswell AAF from a higher headquarters…
- p. 89 …Both of these persons were allegedly present at the Roswell AAF hospital when the events described…
- p. 90 …Eileen Mae Fanton was the only nurse of the five assigned to Roswell AAF in July…
- p. 91 …Fanton's unannounced departure from Roswell AAF, on September 4, 1947 was to be admitted to…
- p. 92 …as a drugstore operator.
## Behind the Roswell Incident?
The "Roswell Incident" story is hardly original. In…
- p. 93 the Aztec story, Behind the Flying Saucers bears many similarities to the Roswell Incident, most notably…
- p. 94 …assigned to the hospital at Roswell AAF or Walker AFB (Roswell AAF was renamed Walker AFB…
- p. 95 …nurse, was another nurse stationed at the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947. $ ^{78} $ Dennis claims…
SECTION ONE
# Flying Saucer Crashes and Alien Bodies
The most puzzling and intriguing element of the complex series of events now known as the Roswell Incident, are the alleged sightings of alien bodies. The bodies turned what, for many years, was just another flying saucer story, into what many UFO proponents claim is the best case for extraterrestrial visitation of Earth. The importance of bodies and the assumptions made as to their origin is illustrated in a passage from a popular Roswell book:
Crashed saucers are one thing, and could well turn out to be futuristic American or even foreign aircraft or missiles. But alien bodies are another matter entirely, and hardly subject to misinterpretation. $ ^{3} $
The 1994 Air Force report determined that project MOGUL was responsible for the 1947 events. MOGUL was an experimental attempt to acoustically detect suspected Soviet nuclear weapon explosions and ballistic missile launches. $ ^{4} $ MOGUL utilized acoustical sensors, radar reflecting targets and other devices attached to a train of weather balloons over 600 feet long. Claims that the U.S. Army Air Forces recovered a "flying disc" in 1947, were based primarily on the lack of identification of the radar targets, an element of weather equipment used on the long MOGUL balloon train. The oddly constructed radar targets were found by a New Mexico rancher during the height of the first U.S. flying saucer wave in 1947. $ ^{5} $ The rancher brought the remnants of the balloons and radar targets to the local sheriff after he allegedly learned of the broadcasted reports of flying discs. However, following some initial confusion at Roswell Army Air Field, the "flying disc" was soon identified by Army Air Forces officials as a standard radar target. $ ^{6} $
From 1947 until the late 1970s, the Roswell Incident was essentially a non-story. The reports that existed contain only descriptions of mundane materials that originated from the Project MOGUL balloon train—"tinfoil, paper, tape, rubber, and sticks." The first claim of "bodies" appeared in the late 1970s, with additional claims made during the 1980s and 1990s. These claims were usually based on anecdotal accounts of second-and third-hand witnesses collected by UFO proponents as much as 40 years after the alleged incident. The same