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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. 4 …Unidentified flying objects—Sightings and encounters—New Mexico—Roswell. I. Title TL789.5.N6M33 1997 001…
  • p. 84 …Incident, are based on activities he allegedly encountered as a mortician providing contract services to the…
  • p. 85 …When he went inside the hospital, he encountered a military nurse who was assigned there and…
  • p. 86 …examining room to get some supplies and encountered two doctors whom she did not recognize that…
  • p. 116 …present in the hospital that day recalled encountering Dennis. $ ^{201} $ What may have led an uninformed…
  • p. 124 …advisor for the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also, based on his…
  • p. 127 …of "immediate compassionate sympathy" from persons he encountered, including his secretary, who cried when she saw…
  • p. 184 …We encountered considerable difficulty dropping the dummies from the balloons. I designed the rack that suspended…
  • p. 227 …81 caskets 35, 76 Chavez, Dennis, Sen. (N.M.) 87 Cheney Award 31-32 Close Encounters…
SECTION TWO

# Reports of Bodies at the Roswell AAF Hospital

This section examines the remaining portion of the Roswell Incident claims—the reports of "bodies" at the Roswell AAF hospital. Examinations of the various "crashed saucer" scenarios revealed references to the Roswell AAF hospital appeared in virtually all of them. Most of these were based on the account of one individual, W. Glenn Dennis. His undocumented and uncorroborated recollections, reportedly first related in 1989, over 42 years after the alleged Roswell Incident, are based on activities he allegedly encountered as a mortician providing contract services to the Roswell AAF hospital. Dennis' recollections have, in turn, been interpreted by UFO theorists as evidence that the U.S. Army Air Forces recovered "alien" bodies and autopsied them at the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947.

Dennis has been described as the "star witness" and his claims as the most credible of the Roswell Incident. $ ^{1} $ This, even though his most sensational assertions were not based on his own experiences but on information allegedly related to him by unidentified mystery witnesses.

Fig.1. The International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.

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