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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…
going with me, and she was going strictly, when she got her time paid back to the service she was going into an order of the nuns, sisters, and she was going to be in education and later on she changed to the nursing deal. The only reason she was in it, because her folks were in debt and she went in the service to get her education. She got her education and then she was going to pay back the church what they owed her. Her whole thing in life was, from the day she was born, her life was planned that she was going to be in an order.

Q: Did she ever tell you which order that was?

A: It was in St. Paul, Minnesota. That's all I know.

Q: That's where she was from.

A: That's where she was born and raised. She never went out of the city until she went to... My understanding was she never went anywhere and she never lived anywhere. She was raised up from the time... Strictly raised by the church. That was the only life she ever planned. She wouldn't date a man if her life depended on it. She'd get around and talk and everything, but there was no way. But everybody said I was going to marry her and... That's bull shit.

Q: The implication was that she was cute and...

A: She was cute. I could have been interested. If I wouldn't have played second fiddle to the Catholic church, because that's what she would have been.

Q: How did you get to know her, just being out there on the base?

A: The ambulance service. You go out there, and you've got your splints on a guy, you've got first aid, whatever, you can't just throw them off of your stretcher. You maybe help them... Sometimes you're out there two hours or three. Then while you're waiting to get your equipment back you sit in the coat room with the doctors and with the nurse's quarters. That's where we always had our cokes and stuff.

Q: So you'd just shoot the breeze with whoever's around.

A: You get to know these people. That's the only way. See, she'd only been there less than three months. Of course, I'm a crazy son of a gun... Nearly everybody remembered her. She was a good looking little thing, a beautiful little girl. We thought she was kind of lonely.

Q: As you well, know, there's been a major effort to try to find her.

[Skip in tape]

A: She was out here less than three months.

Q: So you went back there. Tell me what happened.

A: I started back there, and that's when I got in trouble. I saw this officer standing there, and I saw this debris in the back of the ambulance.

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