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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. 20 …Wilcox and "whispered kind a confidential like" that he might have found a flying disk. Wilcox…
  • p. 206 …He said, George Wilcox—the sheriff and my dad were real good friends, and he said…
  • p. 207 …After George Wilcox left, my dad came up to the funeral home and wanted to know…

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