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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.

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  • 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…
polyethylene balloon and its protective ground cloth to be removed from a launch vehicle and laid out on the ground prior to inflation. Another procedure described by the witness was an apparent reference to a balloon recovery practice of recording the names of civilians who observed high altitude balloon recoveries. $ ^{162} $ The witness stated that military personnel "took everybody's name and everything," $ ^{163} $ which was a procedure to ensure payment of a $ 25 dollar reward to persons who assisted in the recovery. This procedure was also necessary to settle future claims of property damage caused by the balloon, payload, or recovery vehicles. $ ^{164} $

Fig. 80. Witnesses described a "tanker," "military ambulances," a "6x6," and a "wrecker"—probable references to (from left) a helium tank trailer, a M-43 ambulance (converted to a communications vehicle), a M-35 cargo truck (partially obscured), and a M-342 wrecker. These vehicles were used for off-range launch and recovery operations of anthorpomorphic dummies for Project HIGH DIVE/EXCELSIOR. Shown here is a May 29, 1957 dummy launch near Hatch, N.M. (also see figs. 23, 28, 64, 71, 81). (U.S. Air Force photo)

Fig. 81. Scene typical of a mid- to late 1950s off-range high altitude balloon launch. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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