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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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Witness Description	Air Force Equipment/Procedure	“Crash Site”
21. “It's uniform was torn in a couple spots...their uniforms were in pretty sad shape.”186Anderson	Dummy uniforms were often secondhand, rips and other defects were common but they remained in service (fig.75).	Site2
22. “Around the collar it [the suit] was trimmed in...maroon-like cording”187Anderson	Reference to red duct tape used to prevent air from filling the dummy's flightsuit (figs.29,30).	Site2
23. “They looked like they had some sort of bandages on 'em...over his [the crewmember's] arm.'188Anderson	Reference to tape and nylon webbing used to prevent arms and legs of dummy from flailing. Tape was also used to secure the removable back plate of head (figs.29,30,35,72-75).	Site2
24. [bandages] “around his midsection and partially over his shoulder”189Anderson	Reference to parachute harness that had chest and shoulder straps.	Site2
The “Craft”
25. “It [the crewmember] felt dead when I touched it, it was very cold.”190Anderson	Description of a high altitude balloon payload that was cold soaked at sub zero temperatures of the upper atmosphere.	Site2
26. “it was a dirigible, a blimp that had crashed”191Anderson	Reference to a partially inflated or deflated high altitude balloon (figs.23,70).	Site2
27. “a flying saucer that had burst open”192Maltais	Reference to the dummy suspension rack that did not have sides (figs.35,73-75).	Site2
28. “clusters of thread like material in the form of a cable”193Anderson	Numerous cables and wires were used in the dummy instrumentation kits and balloon control package.	Site2
29. “others of those [cables] went from one kind of package of components to another kind of package”194Anderson	Both balloon control package and dummy instrumentation kits were connected by cables (fig.73).	Site2
30. “some kind of container, a metal box”195Anderson	Reference to balloon control package or dummy instrumentation kit (fig.73).	Site2

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