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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. 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
40. "tankers, like, maybe had
fuel or water in 'em" 205
Anderson
41. "a military car"206
Anderson
42. "' 47 Ford car" 207
Ragsdale
43. "there was a jeep that was
pulling a trailer with a motor on
it, like a generator."208
Anderson
Aircraft
44. "observation aircraft...high
winged aircraft"209
Anderson
45. "C-47 sittin there"[on the
road] 2w
Anderson
Procedures
46. "The federal government
could have been doing
something because they didn't
want anyone to know what this
was ... they was using dummies
in those damned things ... they
could use remote control" 211
Ragsdale
47. "they took everybody's
name and everything"212
Anderson
48. "they cleaned everything all
up .. .I mean they cleaned
everything" 213
Ragsdale
73
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
reference to M-49 fuel trucks
used to refuel aircraft or
helium trailer used to inflate
balloon (figs. 23, 70, 80, 81).
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Reference to 1-ton trailer and
MB-19 15 Kilowatt diesel
generator that were used at
balloon launch and recovery
locations (fig. 71 ).
Reference to an L-20
aircraft, primary "chase"
aircraft used for balloon
recovery in the mid 1950s
(fig. 77).
C-4 7 aircraft were often
used on dummy launch and
recovery operations (fig. 78).
Reference to balloon borne
anthropomorphic dummies
that were dropped by remote
control by balloon controllers
at Holloman AFB
Procedure used by balloon
Branch to ensure payment
of $25 reward and to settle
claims of property damage.
Balloon Branch personnel
were required to remove as
much debris as possible from
balloon and payload landing
areas to avoid complaints and
legal actions.
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