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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. 4 …Unidentified flying objects—Sightings and encounters—New Mexico—Roswell. I. Title TL789.5.N6M33 1997 001…
  • p. 84 …Incident, are based on activities he allegedly encountered as a mortician providing contract services to the…
  • p. 85 …When he went inside the hospital, he encountered a military nurse who was assigned there and…
  • p. 86 …examining room to get some supplies and encountered two doctors whom she did not recognize that…
  • p. 116 …present in the hospital that day recalled encountering Dennis. $ ^{201} $ What may have led an uninformed…
  • p. 124 …advisor for the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also, based on his…
  • p. 127 …of "immediate compassionate sympathy" from persons he encountered, including his secretary, who cried when she saw…
  • p. 184 …We encountered considerable difficulty dropping the dummies from the balloons. I designed the rack that suspended…
  • p. 227 …81 caskets 35, 76 Chavez, Dennis, Sen. (N.M.) 87 Cheney Award 31-32 Close Encounters…
high altitude balloon program. Dr Hynek once approached me and we discussed at length, the possibility that Air Force high altitude balloons were responsible for many UFO sightings. We ended the conversation in agreement that the balloons probably accounted for many of the UFO sightings. In other conversations Dr Hynek always gave me the impression that there were very few UFO sightings that could not be explained by good scientific investigation. At no time did Dr Hynek mention or discuss the alleged "Roswell Incident". I was therefore "flabbergasted " when Dr Hynek appeared to believe that some of these sightings were of an extraterrestrial origin.

I am not part of any conspiracy to withhold or provide misleading information to the United States Government or the American public. There is no classified information that I am withholding related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning refraining from talking about this matter.

Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., Col, USAF (Ret)

WITNESS(s):

Sworn to and subscribed before me. an individual authorized to administer oaths, on this 24 day of June 1995

James McAndrew, 1st Lt, USAFR

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