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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 Headquarters United States Air Force report by Captain James McAndrew that follows up the 1994 Air Force report on the Roswell Incident. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from Project MOGUL balloons. It also says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. Claims of bodies at the Roswell hospital most likely combined a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 14 …the MOGUL project, most of which were never classified (and publicly available) were collected, provided to…
  • p. 27 …There was never a program that required a dummy or doll to be placed inside a…
  • p. 60 …There was never a reason to mislead or threaten individuals who observed balloon operations. Relations with…
  • p. 70 …There was never a reason to disrespect, "scream," "holler," or forbid any person from talking about…
  • p. 86 …The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: "Who in the hell are you…
  • p. 87 After this meeting Dennis claimed he never saw the nurse again, and he was told she…
  • p. 92 …recall ever meeting Dennis and had certainly never been visited by Dennis as he has claimed…
  • p. 94 …Since the witness has never provided documentation to support his claims, the only source of additional…
  • p. 127 …Examinations of official records of the alleged primary witnesses revealed that the "missing nurse" was never…
  • p. 164 …During these conversations Dr Nordstrom never mentioned any activities during his tour of duty I considered…
  • p. 167 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 169 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 172 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 174 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 177 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 181 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 183 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 185 …to locate one of the dummies, I never found out what happened to the other one…
  • p. 186 …with him, and he, to my knowledge, never visited me in Farmington, NM, in Colorado, or…
  • p. 190 …I never heard a sound one, not out of any of the creatures including the one…
  • p. 196 …But he never got up? A: He never got up. He never left the beings that…
  • p. 197 …They never searched us, ever. They ran us back up the hill and when we got…
  • p. 200 …up and leaves and swears I'm never going to go back, and then I go…
  • p. 203 …She never went out of the city until she went to... My understanding was she never…
  • p. 206 …These were all people that I'd never seen before. That's why I got in…
  • p. 209 …I never did. I went and took it back and put it in my personal file…
  • p. 211 …I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no one believes this damn…
  • p. 212 …I've never read this stuff, I've never watched the videos, I've never read…
  • p. 213 …He never was really a good friend of mine. We lived across the street from each…
  • p. 218 …I never seen anythig like it. Looked like something between a plastic...looked like carbon paper…
maybe. Most of that one side was ripped open like that. You could see inside and you could see another double hull, like—in there. And there were just rows of components that was on there.

And there were lights that flashed on and off. Some of them were steady and some were flashing. There was a lot of debris and stuff hanging out of the hole. There was evidence that there apparently had been fire. It looked like it had been burned along the edge there. The gash...

Q: Now this wasn't a gash that could have been caused by the thing coming in for the ground? It wasn't at the leading edge of the vehicle?

A: No, no. This was in the side like-it almost appeared it was elliptical. It almost appeared as if something the same shape as the disk we were looking at had hit that same-you know, like it hit the disk and left an imprint that pretty closely approximated the outside diameter of the disk itself. And it appeared to be caved in looking, kind of like it hit them like this and it just crumpled and caved in and ripped it open.

Q: Okay, so you're there, you take all this in, everybody is mystified. What were the circumstances outside? Hot, cold?

A: Very, very hot. Incredible to me, being the first time in New Mexico and coming from back east. I had dry heaves. It was like the inside of an oven. It was unbelievable to me. You know, the odd part about this was that the closer you got to it, the cooler it was. And standing under it in the shade there next to these creatures' bodies, it was like refrigerated air conditioning. And...

Q: Did you feel air coming out of this thing?

A: No, it was just like it was (inaudible).

And I remember reaching up and putting my hand on the side of it but I think I was afraid I was going to hit my head because there was enough room for me as small child, you know, I was approximately the same size as these creatures, to walk up under there and stand there but I kind of did like that, put my hand up against this thing.

Q: What did it feel like?

A: It was ice cold. It felt like it just came out of a freezer.

Q: Was it smooth? Was it rough?

A: It was very smooth. It had a very smooth texture to it. It was obviously made out of metal. It was very solid and it was very cold, ice cold.

And there was a smell in the area. It smelled volatile, acrid, like acetone. And that seemed to be coming out of that gash, that smell. But the closer you got to this thing, the cooler it was so, you know, I kind of remained there.

And I guess that while they were over here, my father and my uncle Ted and my brother. Uncle Ted was trying to talk to this thing in

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