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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

US Air Force · 1997 · 234 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test 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. 11 …1955 Time Magazine Depicting Lt. Col. John P. Stapp. 35. Anthropomorphic Dummy with Missing Fingers. 36…
  • p. 87 …32 However, some time later Dennis received a letter from the nurse that indicated she was…
  • p. 89 2.1 The "Missing" Nurse and the Pediatrician To illustrate the errors in this account and…
  • p. 91 …An additional similarity between Fanton and the "missing nurse" is that her personnel record indicated that…
  • p. 94 …Another possible indication that he recalled events from a different time was the description of an…
  • p. 95 …to "Captain Wilson" several times in reference to the alleged missing nurse. 79 He claims that…
  • p. 97 …95 Results of Missing Nurse and Pediatrician Research Examination of the missing nurse and the pediatrician…
  • p. 98 some of his statements, especially regarding the time frame of these events. The following facts have…
  • p. 99 …1954- June 1960 With the establishment of a possible time frame, research efforts paralleled the previous…
  • p. 103 …The large balloon, which matched eyewitnesses' descriptions at the time, was released the previous day, and…
  • p. 105 …However, neither recalled that a nurse was missing or any of the other activities as described…
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 MoouL 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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Fig. I. 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.

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