“Roswell”60+ pages
- p. 1 ## THE
ROSWELL
REPORT
CASE
CLOSED
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DISTRIBUTION STATEMENT A
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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…
balloon flights. $ ^{152} $ This testimony also described aircraft that were typically overhead during a recovery and an established procedure of landing on a rural road or in a field to reach isolated balloon launch or recovery locations. $ ^{153} $
Military Vehicles. Numerous military vehicles, several of which were described by other witnesses as having been at the other crash site north of Roswell, were also described. Witnesses at the two different sites described a "wrecker" and a "six-by-six," both of the type used for anthropomorphic dummy recoveries. $ ^{154} $ The account also described two vehicles unique to the Balloon Branch that were used for the majority of high altitude balloon recoveries during the mid-to late-1950s.
The witness described a "jeep-like truck that had a bunch of radios in it"...There was a guy sittin' in there wearin' earphones and he was talking on the radio." $ ^{155} $ This is a likely description of a Dodge M-37 3/4-ton utility truck, known as a weapons carrier, that had been specially modified to carry radio equipment for balloon recovery operations. The Holloman AFB Balloon Branch modified these vehicles in 1953, ruling out the possibility that the witness observed them in 1947, when such vehicles were not available to organizations performing balloon operations. $ ^{156} $ The other vehicle described and used by the Balloon Branch were "military ambulances." $ ^{157} $ During the mid-1950s, the Balloon Branch modified three M-43 3/4-ton ambulances for use as balloon recovery and communications vehicles. $ ^{158} $ These vehicles were used for anthropomorphic dummy launch and recovery missions to relay messages to circling recovery aircraft and the balloon operations center at Holloman AFB. $ ^{159} $ The witness also described "a trailer with a motor on it, like a generator." $ ^{160} $ This is a likely description of a 1 1/2-ton cargo trailer with an MB-19 15 Kilowatt diesel generator. These generators were used primarily on balloon launch sites during the 1950s and 1960s (see fig. 71).
Balloon Branch Procedures. Descriptions of military personnel "stretching stuff out on the ground, dragging stuff out of trucks" $ ^{161} $ is a likely description of a balloon launch procedure that required the fragile
Fig. 79. "Stretching stuff out on the ground, dragging stuff out of trucks"a likely witness reference to high altitude balloon inflation procedure that required the balloon to be stretched out on a protective ground cloth prior to inflation. (U.S. Air Force photo)