The Roswell Report: Case Closed

crash sites, it was likely that this account was unrelated to the
crash site accounts. (The hospital account will be addressed
separately in Section Two of this report.)
The remaining testimony was examined with regard both to
the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common
threads or links connecting any of the accounts. If similarities were
found, the next step was to determine if they were related to an actual
event. Finally, if there were actual event(s), were they part of U.S. Air
Force or U.S. Government activities?
Common Threads
Careful examination of the testimony revealed that primary
witnesses of the two "crashed saucer" locations contained descriptions
common to both. These areas of commonality contained both general
and detailed characteristics. However, before continuing, the accounts
were carefully examined to determine if the testimony related by
individual witnesses were of their own experiences and not a recitation
of information given by other persons. While many aspects of the
remaining accounts were judged to be similar, other aspects were found
to be significantly different. The accounts on which the analysis is based
were determined, in all likelihood, to have been independently obtained
or observed by the witnesses.
General Similarities. The testimony presented for both crash
sites generally followed the same sequence of events. The witnesses
were in a rural and isolated area of New Mexico. In the course of
their travels in this area, they came upon a crashed aerial vehicle. The
witnesses then proceeded to the area of the crash to investigate and at
some distance they observed strange looking "beings" that appeared to
be crewmembers of the vehicle. Soon thereafter, a convoy of military
vehicles and soldiers arrived at the site. Military personnel allegedly
instructed the civilians to leave the area and forget what they had seen.
As the witnesses left the area, the military personnel commenced with a
recovery operation of the crashed aerial vehicle and "crew."
Detailed Similarities. Along with general similarities in the
testimonies, there also existed a substantial amount of similar detailed
descriptions of the "aliens," and the military vehicles and procedures
allegedly used to recover them.
The first obvious similarity was the descriptions of the aliens.
Mr. Gerald Anderson, an alleged witness of events at the site 175 miles
northwest of Roswell, recalled, "I thought they were plastic dolls." 12 Mr.
James Ragsdale, an alleged witness of the site north of Roswell, stated,
"They were using dummies in those damned things." 13 Another alleged
witness to a "crash" north of Roswell, Frank J. Kaufman, recalled that
there was "talk" that perhaps an "experimental plane with dummies in it"
was the source of the claims. 14
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