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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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  • 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…
Government reservations, then this explains why they may have been told to leave the
landing site. In the popular Roswell scenarios, witnesses were allegedly instructed
by military personnel to leave the area because they witnessed something of a highly
classified nature. This would be unlikely since the witnesses described projects that
utilized anthropomorphic dummies which were unclassified. It is likely, however,
that if the witnesses ventured onto one of these ranges they were instructed to leave,
not because of classified activities, but for their own safety.
These conclusions are supported by official files, technical reports,
extensive photographic documentation, and the recollections of numerous
former and retired Air Force members and civilian employees who conducted
Projects HIGH DIVE and ExcELSIOR. The descriptions examined here, provided
by UFO theorists themselves, were so remarkably-and redundantly- similar
to these Air Force projects that the only reasonable conclusion can be that the
witnesses described these activities. These many similarities are summarized in
Tablel.l.
The next section will examine the accounts of "aliens" at the
hospital at Roswell Army Air Field. As previously stated, due to the lack of
general or detailed similarities with testimony of the two rural "crash sites,"
the hospital account was determined not to be associated with these reports.
NEW MEXICO
"Crash Site" 2
(Approx. 175 mi.
NW of Roswell)
6_ Anthropomorphic Dummy Launch Locations
D Anthropomorphic Dummy Landing Locations
Locations approximate; numbers within symbols
correspond to listing of locations found in Appendix A
Source: Test records of U.S. Air Force aeromedical project no. 7218,
task 71719 (HIGH DIVE) and project no. 7222, task 71748 (EXCELSIOR).
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