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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 …The rubber was smoky gray in color and scattered over an area about 200 yards in…
  • p. 26 …shiny silverish-gray color $ ^{19} $ and by Maltais as "one-piece and gray in color." $ ^{20…
  • p. 38 …This equipment consisted of a one-piece flightsuit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens…
  • p. 39 …This dummy is outfitted in a "sage green" colored flightsuit (a shade of gray) with red…
  • p. 64 …fingers, were bald and wore one-piece gray suits. e. An activity that required recovery by…
  • p. 68 …of the beings was "one-piece and gray in color" $ ^{121} $ The witness concluded that "As…
  • p. 70 …The assertion that "they were all wearing one-piece suits...a shiny silverish-gray color," "trimmed…
  • p. 71 to a standard issue, gray, Air Force flightsuit used to outfit the dummies and red duct…
  • p. 79 …Site 2 19. “they were all wearing one piece suits...a shiny silverish gray color”184Anderson…
  • p. 184 …drab, and sage green (a shade of gray). We chose the Alderson dummy because it was…
  • p. 191 …It was sort of a real shiny silverish gray color. Q: No zippers, buttons? A: No…
  • p. 195 …His hair was kind of light gray. And he walked over there and they got to…

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On one occasion northwest of Roswell, a local woman unfamiliar with the test activities arrived at a dummy landing site prior to the arrival of the recovery personnel. $ ^{68} $ The woman saw what appeared to be a human embedded head first in a snowbank and became hysterical. The woman screamed, "He's dead!, he's dead!" $ ^{69} $

It now appeared that anthropomorphic dummies dropped by high altitude balloons satisfied the requirements of the research profile. However, the review of high altitude balloon operations revealed what appeared to be explanations for some other sightings of odd objects in the deserts and skies of New Mexico.

Fig. 41. For the first 10 balloon flights, dummies were placed in insulation bags to protect temperature-sensitive equipment. These bags may have been described by at least one witness as "body bags" used to recover alien victims from the crash of a flying saucer. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Figs. 42 & 43. These reports detailed the methods and procedures used for the dummy tests. They may be obtained from the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), Springfield, Va.

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