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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…
anecdotal accounts that referred to bodies also described massive field operations conducted by the U.S.military to recover crash debris from a supposed extraterrestrial spaceship.

A technique used by some UFO authors to collect anecdotal corroboration for their theories was to solicit cooperating witnesses through newspaper announcements. For example, one such solicitation appeared in the Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan on November 4, 1992, on behalf of

Fig. 3. An illustration of a Project MOGUL balloon train similar to one found on a ranch 75 miles northwest of Roswell, N.M. in June 1947, which contains all of the "strange" materials described as part of a "flying disc." Initial confusion at Roswell AAF and delayed identification of this equipment was the first in a series of unrelated events now known as the "Roswell Incident."

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