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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. 7 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995), the first Air Force work on the alleged "Roswell…
  • p. 24 …From the remaining testimony, Air Force researchers developed the following set of working hypotheses to assist…
  • p. 25 …regard both to the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common threads…
  • p. 50 …Moore, a New York University graduate student working under contract for the U.S. Army Air…
  • p. 76 …165 However, since Ragsdale reportedly lived or worked in the Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad, N.M…
  • p. 85 …at the Ballard Funeral Home, where he worked, from the Mortuary Affairs officer at Roswell Army…
  • p. 86 …23 The nurse called Dennis later that same day at the funeral home where he worked…
  • p. 92 …In 1948, a work of fiction reportedly appeared in the Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review describing…
  • p. 94 …NCO to accompany and seem to be working with a white officer, it would be unlikely…
  • p. 95 …I was informed that she wasn't working that day. Dennis then telephoned An old girl…
  • p. 104 …145 ' It is unclear when Dennis worked at this funeral home since city and phone directories…
  • p. 124 …that at first appeared to be the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible. Ll!lSUE…
  • p. 127 …Fulgham) Fulgham recalled that upon his return to work at the Aero Medical Laboratory he received…
  • p. 168 …I also participated in the X-15 and X-20 programs and worked as a bioastronautics…
  • p. 170 …I also worked on the ~1oby Dick Project that collected meteorological data and the classified Gopher…
  • p. 171 …I also worked with Capt Kininger on Project Stargazer. I also had met several times the…
  • p. 175 …During that time I was a physiological training officer and worked in the development of early…
  • p. 176 …I later worked with Capt Kittinger on the Stargazer project and and occasionally flew aircraft with…
  • p. 180 …I worked very closely with Dr Hynek over a period of five years from 1958 to…
  • p. 184 …aspe~.,:ts of the space program and worked on the highly classiftcd t~-2 project. I…
  • p. 193 …know, sign language and that didn't work. And I don't know, for some reason…
  • p. 195 …everybody and he told them that he worked out on the plains out there and that…
  • p. 199 …Was this a guy you'd worked with before? Somebody you knew real well? A: No…
  • p. 200 …When did you first go to work for him? A: I went to work for him…
  • p. 202 …That had been worked over two or three times. Q: When you look at it looks…
  • p. 204 …When you put flame on stainless, see, I do sculpture work and all that, and I…
  • p. 205 …I worked on a hell of a lot of stuff. Q: In that tape you talked…
  • p. 207 …I knew the work station that she always worked at. She was a general nurse. They…
  • p. 209 …doesn't know, because when he was working up there was another manager, and he said…
  • p. 212 …When they were doing the writing, they were working from Stan's tape. A: Evidently. Q…
  • p. 215 …He was out working in the field and I understood that he was out on the…
  • p. 220 …But it could have been out longer than that there but see I worked in Carlsbad…
Witness Description Air Force "Crash Site"
Equipment/Procedure
21. "It's uniform was torn in Dummy uniforms were often Site 2
a couple spots ... their uniforms secondhand, rips and other
were in pretty sad shape." 186 defects were common but
Anderson they remained in service (fig. 75).
22. "Around the collar it [the Reference to red duct tape Site 2
suit] was trimmed in ... maroon- used to prevent air from
like cording" 187 filling the dummy's
Anderson flightsuit (figs. 29, 30).
23. "They looked like they Reference to tape and nylon Site 2
had some sort of bandages webbing used to prevent
on 'em ... over his [the arms and legs of dummy
crewmember's] arm." 188 from flailing. Tape was also
Anderson used to secure the removable
back plate of head (figs. 29,
30, 35, 72-75).
24. [bandages] "around his Reference to parachute Site 2
midsection and partially over harness that had chest and
his shoulder" 189 shoulder straps.
Anderson
The "Craft"
25. "It [the crewmember] felt Description of a high altitude Site 2
dead when I touched it, it was balloon payload that was
very cold." 190 cold soaked at sub zero
Anderson temperatures of the upper
atmosphere.
26. "it was a dirigible, a blimp Reference to a partially Site 2
that had crashed" 191 inflated or deflated high
Anderson altitude balloon (figs. 23, 70).
27. "a flying saucer that had Reference to the dummy Site 2
burst open" 192 suspension rack that did not
Maltais have sides (figs. 35, 73-75).
28. "clusters of thread like Numerous cables and wires Site 2
material in the form of a were used in the dummy
cable" 193 instrumentation kits and
Anderson balloon control package.
29. "others of those [cables] Both balloon control package and Site 2
went from one kind of package dummy instrumentation kits were
of components to another kind connected by cables (fig. 73).
of package" 194
Anderson
30. "some kind of container, Reference to balloon control Site 2
a metal box" 195 package or dummy
Anderson instrumentation kit (fig. 73).
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