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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.

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“Weaponized”19 pages

  • p. 17 …MoGUL was an experimental attempt to acoustically detect suspected Soviet nuclear weapon explosions and ballistic missile…
  • p. 26 …another witness described seeing a "weapons carrier"26 (a weapons carrier is a mid-sized Jeep…
  • p. 40 …These included a wrecker, a six-by-six, a weapons carrier, and L-20 observation and…
  • p. 56 …gravity measurement experiments, high altitude astronomic studies, weapons systems evaluations, and gamma ray detection experiments. While…
  • p. 64 …wrecker, a six-by-six, and a weapons carrier. The testimony used in the following comparison…
  • p. 65 …It was six or eight big trucks besides the pickup, weapons carriers and stuff like that…
  • p. 67 …116 The witness stated he saw a "wrecker," a "six-by-six," a "weapons carrier," a…
  • p. 74 …4-ton utility truck, known as a weapons carrier, that had been specially modified to carry…
  • p. 81 …talking on the radio." 197 Anderson 33. "weapons carriers" 198 Ragsdale 34. "six by six Army…
  • p. 119 …37 3/4-ton utility vehicle or "weapons carrier."209 One ambulance was assigned to this…
  • p. 120 …back of the converted ambulance or the weapons carrier for later disposal. Dennis also recalled that…
  • p. 121 …219 The mission of the 6th BW, to strike the enemy with nuclear weapons anywhere in…
  • p. 171 …depending on the mission, a crane, weapons carriers, communications van, and occasionally tanker tmcks to refuel…
  • p. 173 …Also following the balloon were n:covery technicians in a ·weapons carrier. We stayed in contact…
  • p. 179 …During the recoveries weapons were not earned because there \Vas no classified information or equipment. I…
  • p. 219 …I would say it was six or eight big trucks besides the pick up, weapons carriers…
  • p. 228 …See also weapons carrier M-43 3/4-ton ambulance 65, 113. See also ambulance MAD…
  • p. 229 …See also Signed sworn statement in Appendix B nosecone 43 nuclear accidents 13 nuclear weapon 5…
  • p. 231 …99 weapons carrier 15, 30,55-56,58,65, 113-114. See also M-37 3…
Fig. 58. Present members
of the Holloman Balloon
Branch in front of the Balloon
Operations Center, Building
850, at Holloman AFB, N.M.,
(from left) TSgt. Roger J.
Welch, Mr. Joseph Fumerola,
Mr. Alvin W. Hodges, Mr.
Joseph Longshore, MSgt.
Ray A. Pitts, Sr. Amn. John
Witkop, and Mr. Harvey L.
Harris. (U.S. Air Force photo)
balloon launch facility at Holloman AFB, U.S. Air Force balloon crews
have recently launched balloons from numerous field locations in the U.S.
(including two sites in Roswell), as well as Alaska, Panama, and Antarctica.
Balloon and Payload Recoveries
UFO theorists support their claims of an extraordinary
occurrence in the New Mexico desert by describing mysterious U.S.
military personnel, operating a variety of vehicles and aircraft that always
seem to arrive shortly after the crash of a "flying saucer." When carefully
scrutinized, the descriptions of the mystery crews, their equipment,
methods, and the areas where the recoveries allegedly occurred-in
targeted high altitude balloon recovery areas-indicates that Holloman
Balloon Branch activities were most likely responsible for the claims.
To successfully recover high altitude balloons, balloon
recovery technicians regularly ventured far from Holloman AFB. In most
instances the balloons and their scientific payloads were recovered from
predetermined recovery areas. These regularly targeted areas, located in
Arizona, West Texas, and New Mexico, included the area surrounding
Roswell. 98 From 1947 to the present, the Roswell area has been the site
of hundreds of balloon and payload recoveries (including those that
carried anthropomorphic dummies). 99
The regularly targeted areas were the result of the evolution of
high altitude balloon control techniques developed at Holloman AFB. These
techniques were based on meteorological, geographical, and operational
conditions that exist in New Mexico. These factors, combined with ample
amounts of skill and experience of balloon controllers at Holloman AFB,
determined the impact points of Holloman high altitude balloons.
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