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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. 7 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995), the first Air Force work on the alleged "Roswell…
  • p. 20 …The balloon which held it up, if that was how it worked, must have been about…
  • p. 24 …From the remaining testimony, Air Force researchers developed the following set of working hypotheses to assist…
  • p. 25 …regard both to the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common threads…
  • p. 50 …Moore, a New York University graduate student working under contract for the U.S. Army Air…
  • p. 76 …165} $ However, since Ragsdale reportedly lived or worked in the Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad, N.M…
  • p. 85 …at the Ballard Funeral Home, where he worked, from the Mortuary Affairs officer at Roswell Army…
  • p. 86 …day at the funeral home where he worked and agreed to meet with him at the…
  • p. 92 …In 1948, a work of fiction reportedly appeared in the Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review describing…
  • p. 94 …NCO to accompany and seem to be working with a white officer, it would be unlikely…
  • p. 95 …I was informed that she wasn't working that day. Dennis then telephoned An old girl…
  • p. 124 …that at first appeared to be the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible. CLINICAL RECORD…
  • p. 127 …Fulgham) Fulgham recalled that upon his return to work at the Aero Medical Laboratory he received…
  • p. 168 …I also participated in the X-15 and X-20 programs and worked as a bioastronautics…
  • p. 170 …Following graduation I was hired by the Air Force at Holloman AFB and worked continuously as…
  • p. 171 …I also worked with Capt Kittinger on Project Stargazer. I also had met several times the…
  • p. 175 …During that time I was a physiological training officer and worked in the development of early…
  • p. 176 …I later worked with Capt Kittinger on the Stargazer project and and occasionally flew aircraft with…
  • p. 180 …I worked very closely with Dr Hynek over a period of five years from 1958 to…
  • p. 184 …various aspects of the space program and worked on the highly classified U-2 project. I…
  • p. 193 …know, sign language and that didn't work. And I don't know, for some reason…
  • p. 195 …everybody and he told them that he worked out on the plains out there and that…
  • p. 199 …Was this a guy you'd worked with before? Somebody you knew real well? A: No…
  • p. 200 …When did you first go to work for him? A: I went to work for him…
  • p. 202 …That had been worked over two or three times. Q: When you look at it looks…
  • p. 204 …When you put flame on stainless, see, I do sculpture work and all that, and I…
  • p. 205 …I worked on a hell of a lot of stuff. Q: In that tape you talked…
  • p. 207 …I knew the work station that she always worked at. She was a general nurse. They…
  • p. 209 …doesn't know, because when he was working up there was another manager, and he said…
  • p. 212 …When they were doing the writing, they were working from Stan's tape. A: Evidently. Q…
  • p. 215 …He was out working in the field and I understood that he was out on the…
  • p. 220 …But it could have been out longer than that there but see I worked in Carlsbad…
make it again, I think he would have made an excellent violinist because of the structure of their hands.

They were wearing one piece suits. All of them were dressed exactly the same. It was sort of a real shiny silverish gray color.

Q: No zippers, buttons?

A: No, I saw no zippers, no buttons.

Q: Insignias?

A: No, no insignias. The only thing that was different, you know, and they all had this, but the only that was different from the silvery gray thing, the suit, was that down like a seam line, like there was a seam on his shoulder and around the collar it was trimmed in what appeared to be maroon, like cording.

Then the suits were continuous with their footwear. We could see right this area down, it seemed to be less pliable then it was up here, like this was a stiffer area, like they were boots or shoes or something. But they were all dressed exactly the same.

Q: Okay. So you and your family are talking back and forth, wondering what was going on, what did your family say? I mean...

A: Well...

Q: ...did they say anything?

A: Yes, my brother, one of his first remarks I heard him say him say, "That's a god damn spaceship." You know there were bodies up there and, you know, I was told not to go up there, which I didn't. And...

Q: How old was your brother at the time?

A He was in his early twenties, I think, 20, 21, something like that.

Q: He was a lot older that you were?

A: Oh, yes, considerably.

When we got up there I kind of meandered off to one side. This thing was cocked up and I was standing here, the bodies were here, and everybody else was kind of down here except my cousin Victor was over here playing and looking in this gaping hole on the side of this disk. And it was shaped just like a discus except for a round dome was up on top and there was this big gaping gash in there. We could see inside and it looked like a double hull.

Q: How big-explain it? The gash.

A: The dome?

Q: No, the gash.

A: Well, it covered the greater majority from the center of the craft out. It was just like a gaping hole in there. I mean I'm thinking, you know, it's like about 32, 35 feet in diameter so we're talking about 17 feet

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