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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 10 …Drawing of Project MOGUL Balloon Train. 4. Maj. Jesse Marcel With "Flying Disc" Debris. 5. ML…
  • p. 14 …project code named MOGUL. $ ^{1} $ Records located describing research carried out under the MOGUL project, most…
  • p. 15 …then erroneously linked them to the actual Project MOGUL debris recovery. This report discusses the results…
  • p. 17 …The reports that existed contain only descriptions of mundane materials that originated from the Project MOGUL…
  • p. 18 …An illustration of a Project MOGUL balloon train similar to one found on a ranch 75…
  • p. 19 …When compared to a standard radar target used by project MOGUL, it is clear that they…
  • p. 21 …Army Air Forces to develop high altitude balloon technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon…
  • p. 22 …site of a Project MOGUL balloon train in June 1947. $ ^{10} $ The MOGUL landing site is…
  • p. 23 …The actual Project MOGUL landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility, and more importantly…
  • p. 24 …The reports of bodies were not associated with Project MOGUL. The MOGUL balloon train did not…
  • p. 50 ## High Altitude Polyethylene Research Balloons In 1946, as a result of research conducted for project MOGUL…
  • p. 52 …at Holloman AFB which began with the Project MOGUL flights in June 1947, covered a wide…
  • p. 87 …the retrieval of experimental Project MOGUL research equipment that was erroneously reported as a flying disc…
  • p. 131 …Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New…
  • p. 170 …Based on my experience with this project I am certain project Mogul was responsible for some…
  • p. 230 Project 119L 42 Project BLUEBOOK 117 Project GEMINI 120 Project MERCURY 111 Project MOGUL. See MOGUL…
Fig.1. The Roswell Report Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert contains, in its entirety, the report submitted to the Secretary of the Air Force in July 1994. It is available for sale from the U.S. Government Printing Office, Superintendent of Documents, Washington, D.C., 20402-9328. Stock No. 008-070-00697-9, ISBN 0-16-048023-X.

Subsequent to the 1994 report, Air Force researchers discovered information that provided a rational explanation for the alleged observations of alien bodies associated with the "Roswell Incident." Pursuant to the discovery, research efforts compared documented Air Force activities to the incredible claims of "flying saucers," "aliens" and seemingly unusual Air Force involvement. This in-depth examination revealed that these accounts, in most instances, were of actual Air Force activities but were seriously flawed in several major areas, most notably: the Air Force operations that inspired reports of "bodies" (in addition to being earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to establish the accurate dates for these "alien" observations (in some instances by more than a decade) and then erroneously linked them to the actual Project MOGUL debris recovery.

This report discusses the results of this further research and identifies the likely sources of the claims of "alien" bodies. Contrary to allegations that the Air Force has engaged in a cover-up and possesses dark secrets involving the Roswell claims, some of the accounts appear to be descriptions of unclassified and widely publicized Air Force scientific achievements. Other descriptions of bodies appear to be descriptions of actual incidents in which Air Force members were killed or injured in the line of duty.

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