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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. 14 …This 1,000-page report methodically explains that what was recovered by the Army Air Forces…
  • p. 86 …The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: "Who in the hell are you…
  • p. 92 …described, he was at a loss to explain how Dennis gained information concerning his military and…
  • p. 94 …Since the witness has never provided documentation to support his claims, the only source of additional…
  • p. 164 …never mentioned any activities during his tour of duty I considered unusual or that might explain…
  • p. 172 …During my time on Project Bluebook there wasn't any sightings that we could not explain…
  • p. 181 …few UFO sightings that could not be explained by good scientific investigation. At no time did…
  • p. 186 …While I was stationed at Walker AFB, I do not recall any incidents that may explain…
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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