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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…
Witness Description
31. "it was ice cold, it felt like
it just came out of a freezer" 196
Anderson
Vehicles
32. a "jeeplike truck that had
a bunch of radios in it and two
big antennas .... There was a
guy sittin' in there wearin'
earphones and he was talking
on the radio." 197
Anderson
33. "weapons carriers" 198
Ragsdale
34. "six by six Army trucks" 199
Ragsdale
35. "six by [six] ... military
truck with canvas ... wagon
type ... thing over it"200
Anderson
36. "wreckers [with] cranes
on 'em"2ot
37. "a wrecker" 202
38. "there was military
ambulances " 203
39. "the pick-up" 204
Anderson
Ragsdale
Anderson
Anderson
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
Condition of a balloon
payload after it has been
"cold soaked" in the upper
atmosphere at temperatures
far below zero.
Reference to a modified
M-37 3/4-ton utility truck,
commonly referred to as a
weapons carrier, unique to
I the Balloon Branch. >One
of the primacy vehicles
used by recovery crews.
Balloons were tracked by
direction finding gear and
required a. radio operator to
wear headphones (fig. 32).
Corroboration of description
#32. See above.
Reference to M-35 2l/2~ton
cargo truck used to transport
. dunnnies and suspension
racks for launch and
re.coveries (fig. 31).
Corroboration· of description
#34. See.aboVe,
reference to M-246wrecker
11sed to la11nch and recover
··anthropomorphic dummy
payloads (tlgs. 23, 28, 70).
Corroboration of description
# 36. See above.
Reference to a converted M-43
ambulances used as balloon
recovery communications
vehicles (figs. 64, 71, 80).
Pick-up trucks were often
used to recover
anthropomorphic dummies
(figs. 71, 79).
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