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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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# Transcript of Interview with W. Glenn Dennis $ ^{*} $ (Alleged firsthand witness to events at the Roswell AAF hospital)
Q: You started getting calls from the base mortuary officer is that right, some time in the afternoon on some day in July [1947].
A: Right after noon, yeah.
Q: Do you recall, was that before the story appeared in the [Roswell Daily] Record?
A: I don't know. I'm sure it was. I can't honestly say, but I don't think the paper came out until the next day, I don't think. I'm just assuming that.
Q: I understand. When things like that happen to me way after the fact I try to remember, and I wasn't sure if you had any recollection or not. It was the base mortuary officer who called you, not any of the MDs out there.
A: No.
Q: He was just, the mortuary officer was just the guy...
A: We used to have a standing joke. What did you do that was so bad they made you the mortuary officer.
Q: Exactly.
A: He wasn't a doctor or anything, but he was an officer and he was probably some old boy they was trying to figure out something to do with.
We used to all have them come in, even the officer himself, say, "God, I didn't know I screwed up that bad."
Q: Was this a guy you'd worked with before? Somebody you knew real well?
A: No. Those guys come and go.
Q: I realize that. You don't remember what his name was or anything like that?
A: No. I'm like Bob [Shirkey]. I think if I would see it or heard it or something I might. Those guys, they were in and out. The mortuary officer, usually they would appoint some sergeant or somebody. The only time the doctors were involved is when you'd have an embalming inspection 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.