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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. 11 …1955 Time Magazine Depicting Lt. Col. John P. Stapp. 35. Anthropomorphic Dummy with Missing Fingers. 36…
  • p. 87 …32 However, some time later Dennis received a letter from the nurse that indicated she was…
  • p. 89 2.1 The "Missing" Nurse and the Pediatrician To illustrate the errors in this account and…
  • p. 91 …An additional similarity between Fanton and the "missing nurse" is that her personnel record indicated that…
  • p. 94 …Another possible indication that he recalled events from a different time was the description of an…
  • p. 95 …to "Captain Wilson" several times in reference to the alleged missing nurse. 79 He claims that…
  • p. 97 …95 Results of Missing Nurse and Pediatrician Research Examination of the missing nurse and the pediatrician…
  • p. 98 some of his statements, especially regarding the time frame of these events. The following facts have…
  • p. 99 …1954- June 1960 With the establishment of a possible time frame, research efforts paralleled the previous…
  • p. 103 …The large balloon, which matched eyewitnesses' descriptions at the time, was released the previous day, and…
  • p. 105 …However, neither recalled that a nurse was missing or any of the other activities as described…
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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