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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.
“Headquarters”13 pages
Despite these efforts, the dummies were not always recovered immediately; one was not found for nearly three years and several were not recovered at all. $ ^{62} $ When they were found, the dummies and instrumentation were often damaged from impact. $ ^{63} $ Damage to the dummies included loss of heads, arms, legs and fingers. $ ^{64} $ This detail, dummies with missing fingers, appears to satisfy another element of the research profile—aliens with only four fingers.
Fig. 35. Rough treatment and parachute failures during balloon drops often caused damage to the hands of the dummies. This detail, "beings" with "four fingers," was related by two witnesses as a distinguishing feature of the Roswell aliens. (U.S. Air Force photo) Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 232 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.