“Roswell”60+ pages
- p. 1 ## THE
ROSWELL
REPORT
CASE
CLOSED
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- 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…
crash sites, it was likely that this account was unrelated to the crash site accounts. (The hospital account will be addressed separately in Section Two of this report.)
The remaining testimony was examined with regard both to the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common threads or links connecting any of the accounts. If similarities were found, the next step was to determine if they were related to an actual event. Finally, if there were actual event(s), were they part of U.S. Air Force or U.S. Government activities?
## Common Threads
Careful examination of the testimony revealed that primary witnesses of the two "crashed saucer" locations contained descriptions common to both. These areas of commonality contained both general and detailed characteristics. However, before continuing, the accounts were carefully examined to determine if the testimony related by individual witnesses were of their own experiences and not a recitation of information given by other persons. While many aspects of the remaining accounts were judged to be similar, other aspects were found to be significantly different. The accounts on which the analysis is based were determined, in all likelihood, to have been independently obtained or observed by the witnesses.
General Similarities. The testimony presented for both crash sites generally followed the same sequence of events. The witnesses were in a rural and isolated area of New Mexico. In the course of their travels in this area, they came upon a crashed aerial vehicle. The witnesses then proceeded to the area of the crash to investigate and at some distance they observed strange looking "beings" that appeared to be crewmembers of the vehicle. Soon thereafter, a convoy of military vehicles and soldiers arrived at the site. Military personnel allegedly instructed the civilians to leave the area and forget what they had seen. As the witnesses left the area, the military personnel commenced with a recovery operation of the crashed aerial vehicle and "crew."
Detailed Similarities. Along with general similarities in the testimonies, there also existed a substantial amount of similar detailed descriptions of the "aliens," and the military vehicles and procedures allegedly used to recover them.
The first obvious similarity was the descriptions of the aliens. Mr. Gerald Anderson, an alleged witness of events at the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, recalled, "I thought they were plastic dolls." $ ^{12} $ Mr. James Ragsdale, an alleged witness of the site north of Roswell, stated, "They were using dummies in those damned things." $ ^{13} $ Another alleged witness to a "crash" north of Roswell, Frank J. Kaufman, recalled that there was "talk" that perhaps an "experimental plane with dummies in it" was the source of the claims. $ ^{14} $