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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…
Witness Description	Air Force Equipment/Procedure	“Crash Site”
31. “it was ice cold, it felt like it just came out of a freezer”196Anderson	Condition of a balloon payload after it has been “cold soaked” in the upper atmosphere at temperatures far below zero.	Site 2
Vehicles
32. a “jeeplike truck that had a bunch of radios in it and two big antennas...There was a guy sittin' in there wearin' earphones and he was talking on the radio.”197Anderson	Reference to a modified M-37 3/4-ton utility truck, commonly referred to as a weapons carrier, unique to the Balloon Branch. One of the primary vehicles used by recovery crews. Balloons were tracked by direction finding gear and required a radio operator to wear headphones (fig. 32).	Site 2
33. “weapons carriers”198Ragsdale	Corroboration of description #32. See above.	Site 1
34. “six by six Army trucks”199Ragsdale	Reference to M-35 21/2-ton cargo truck used to transport dummies and suspension racks for launch and recoveries (fig. 31).	Site 1
35. “six by [six]... military truck with canvas...wagon type...thing over it”200Anderson	Corroboration of description #34. See above.	Site 2
36. “wreckers [with] cranes on 'em'201Anderson	reference to M-246 wrecker used to launch and recover anthropomorphic dummy payloads (figs. 23, 28, 70).	Site 2
37. “a wrecker”202Ragsdale	Corroboration of description #36. See above.	Site 1
38. “there was military ambulances”203Anderson	Reference to a converted M-43 ambulances used as balloon recovery communications vehicles (figs. 64, 71, 80).	Site 2
39. “the pick-up”204Anderson	Pick-up trucks were often used to recover anthropomorphic dummies (figs. 71, 79).	Site 2

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