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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. 17 …MOGUL was an experimental attempt to acoustically detect suspected Soviet nuclear weapon explosions and ballistic missile…
  • p. 26 …another witness described seeing a "weapons carrier $ ^{26} $ (a weapons carrier is a mid-sized Jeep…
  • p. 40 …These included a wrecker, a six-by-six, a weapons carrier, and L-20 observation and…
  • p. 56 …gravity measurement experiments, high altitude astronomic studies, weapons systems evaluations, and gamma ray detection experiments. While…
  • p. 64 …wrecker, a six-by-six, and a weapons carrier. The testimony used in the following comparison…
  • p. 65 …It was six or eight big trucks besides the pickup, weapons carriers and stuff like that…
  • p. 67 …a "wrecker," a "six-by-six," a "weapons carrier," a "47 Ford car," and a "pickup…
  • p. 74 …4-ton utility truck, known as a weapons carrier, that had been specially modified to carry…
  • p. 81 …Site 2 33. “weapons carriers”198Ragsdale Corroboration of description #32. See above. Site 1 34. “six…
  • p. 119 …37 3/4-ton utility vehicle or "weapons carrier." $ ^{209} $ One ambulance was assigned to this…
  • p. 120 …back of the converted ambulance or the weapons carrier for later disposal. Dennis also recalled that…
  • p. 121 …BW, to strike the enemy with nuclear weapons anywhere in the world at a moment's…
  • p. 171 …The recovery vehicles included, depending on the mission, a crane, weapons carriers, communications van, and occasionally…
  • p. 173 …Also following the balloon were recovery technicians in a weapons carrier. We stayed in contact with…
  • p. 179 …During the recoveries weapons were not carried because there was no classified information or equipment. I…
  • p. 185 …During this recovery I drove a weapons carrier and I was only able to locate one…
  • p. 219 …I would say it was six or eight big trucks besides the pick up, weapons carriers…
  • p. 228 …See also weapons carrier M-43 3/4-ton ambulance 65,113. See also ambulance MAD…
  • p. 229 …See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B nosecone 43 nuclear accidents 13 nuclear weapon 5…
  • p. 231 …99 weapons carrier 15, 30, 55-56, 58, 65, 113-114. See also M-37 3…
## Assessment

This brief testimony suggests that the witness did not know the date of this event. It also appears that the "creatures" were seen from a distance, as evidenced by the statement, "They got nearly up to the UFO but it was close enough that you could see some creatures." The testimony also seems consistent with a description of anthropomorphic dummies as the witness stated they "didn't look like human beings."

## Vern Maltais

## "Their heads were hairless...no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no hair" $ ^{120} $

This secondhand witness alleged that the eyewitness told him he observed "beings" from a "flying saucer that had burst open" that were "about three and a half to four feet tall, very slim...their heads were hairless, with no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no hair" with "sort of a pear-shaped head." He also related that "the beings were...not exactly like human beings...similar but not exactly." He described that the hands of the beings "were not covered"...and [they] only had "four fingers." He also related that the clothing of the beings was "one-piece and gray in color" $ ^{121} $ The witness concluded that "As they [the witnesses] were just starting to look things over really closely, the military moved in and gave them a briefing to not say anything about it."

## Assessment

This description of events also indicates that the eyewitness apparently did not closely examine the scene and was "just starting to look things over" when the military arrived. As with the previous testimony, from a distance the dummies were likely to look, as described by the witness, "not exactly like humans...similar but not exactly." The description of the flying saucer that had "burst open" is a likely description of the dummy suspension rack that was open on the sides (see figures 74, 75, 76). The detailed descriptions of the "beings" as "about three and a half to four feet tall, very slim in stature...their heads were hairless, with no eyebrows, no eyelashes,

Fig. 72. "Their heads were hairless...no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no hair," a likely description of Alderson Laboratories type anthropomorphic dummy. These Alderson dummies, of the same type used for Projects HIGH DIVE/EXCELSIOR, were used to test NASAs APOLLO spacecraft three-man couch at Holloman AFB, N.M. in 1965. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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