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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. 59 …parachutes, payloads, the balloons themselves, and circling chase aircraft often drew crowds of curious onlookers from…
  • p. 82 …Reference to an L-20 aircraft, primary "chase" aircraft used for balloon recovery in the mid…
  • p. 83 …Reference to balloon "chase" aircraft used to direct ground recovery crews to balloon impact site. Reference…
  • p. 114 …The crew of the nearby chase helicopter and personnel in the ground tracking vehicles rushed to…
  • p. 115 …As project officer of two research programs that utilized high altitude balloons and as a chase…
  • p. 129 …balloon recovery when their L-20 balloon chase plane crashed in the rugged Gila Mountains near…
  • p. 168 …I then remember boarding the "chase" helicopter that was following us and tlying a short distance…
  • p. 180 …We treated him for shock and soon the recovery vehic1es and the chase helicopter anived. I…
  • p. 197 …But he chased you guys away pretty quick? A: Yes, yes, he did. And they herded…
Witness Description
49. "they had the road
barricaded off'214
50. "they had the road
sealed off'215
Anderson
Ragsdale
51. "airplanes sitting there they
had landed on the highway"216
Anderson
52. "there was airplanes in the
sky" [over the crash site]. 217
Anderson
53. "stretching out cables of
some kind ... they were stretching
stuff out on the ground,
dragging stuff out of trucks"218
Anderson
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
Established procedure to
refuel an aircraft, launch a
balloon from an isolated
location or recover a small
payload near a rural road.
Reference to balloon "chase"
aircraft used to direct ground
recovery crews to balloon
impact site.
Reference to balloon
inflation procedure that
required the balloon and
ground cloth to be removed
from a vehicle and laid on
the ground (fig. 79).
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"Crash Site"
Site 2
Site 1
Site 2
Site 2
Site 2

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