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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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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.

  • p. 14 …the MOGUL project, most of which were never classified (and publicly available) were collected, provided to…
  • p. 27 …There was never a program that required a dummy or doll to be placed inside a…
  • p. 60 …There was never a reason to mislead or threaten individuals who observed balloon operations. Relations with…
  • p. 70 …There was never a reason to disrespect, "scream," "holler," or forbid any person from talking about…
  • p. 86 …The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: "Who in the hell are you…
  • p. 87 After this meeting Dennis claimed he never saw the nurse again, and he was told she…
  • p. 92 …recall ever meeting Dennis and had certainly never been visited by Dennis as he has claimed…
  • p. 94 …Since the witness has never provided documentation to support his claims, the only source of additional…
  • p. 127 …Examinations of official records of the alleged primary witnesses revealed that the "missing nurse" was never…
  • p. 164 …During these conversations Dr Nordstrom never mentioned any activities during his tour of duty I considered…
  • p. 167 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 169 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 172 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 174 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 177 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 181 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 183 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 185 …to locate one of the dummies, I never found out what happened to the other one…
  • p. 186 …with him, and he, to my knowledge, never visited me in Farmington, NM, in Colorado, or…
  • p. 190 …I never heard a sound one, not out of any of the creatures including the one…
  • p. 196 …But he never got up? A: He never got up. He never left the beings that…
  • p. 197 …They never searched us, ever. They ran us back up the hill and when we got…
  • p. 200 …up and leaves and swears I'm never going to go back, and then I go…
  • p. 203 …She never went out of the city until she went to... My understanding was she never…
  • p. 206 …These were all people that I'd never seen before. That's why I got in…
  • p. 209 …I never did. I went and took it back and put it in my personal file…
  • p. 211 …I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no one believes this damn…
  • p. 212 …I've never read this stuff, I've never watched the videos, I've never read…
  • p. 213 …He never was really a good friend of mine. We lived across the street from each…
  • p. 218 …I never seen anythig like it. Looked like something between a plastic...looked like carbon paper…
Fig. 8. Announcement from the November 4, 1992 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan soliciting witnesses of flying saucer crashes in New Mexico. When former Air Force scientists responded to advise the authors that Air Force projects were most probably responsible for the UFO accounts, they were summarily dismissed by the authors who placed the announcement, and then were accused of participating in a cover-up.

Fig. 9. (Left) B.D. "Duke" Gildenberg served as the civilian meteorologist, engineer, and physical science administrator for the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch from 1951-1981. Gildenberg actively participated in thousands of high altitude balloon operations, including the flights that dropped anthropomorphic dummies at off-range locations throughout New Mexico. Gildenberg, the "father" of Air Force scientific ballooning, was instrumental in identifying the many actual Air Force activities now known as the "Roswell Incident."

Fig.10. (Right) Charles B. Moore, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, was the project engineer for New York University under contract to the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop high altitude balloon technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon train on June 4, 1947, that when combined with other events, are now known as the "Roswell Incident."

# Authors seek UFO witnesses

Co-authors of a major book on the 1947 crash of at least one alien spacecraft in the New Mexico desert will be at the Golden Manor Motel in Socorro on Monday, Nov. 16 to seek out additional witnesses to these events.

Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman and aviation/science writer Don Berliner, whose "Crash at Corona" is now in its second printing, want to meet with people having knowledge of the 1947 crashes.

Their book, being published in August by Paragon House of New York, is being prepared for a made-for-TV movie. It is the story of the discovery, retrieval, shipping and cover-up of what the authors call the most important scientific discovery of the past thousand years.

It is based on dozens of interviews with first- and second-hand civilian and ex-military witnesses to various parts of what is referred to as a very complex series of events.

In order to strengthen their case for government knowledge of what they call "the truth behind almost 50 years of UFO sightings," the authors are seeking out additional, reliable witnesses. It remains their policy to honor requests to keep the names of witnesses private.

For more information, contact Don Berliner, 1202 S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA., 22314 (703548-0405); or Stanton T. Friedman, 79 Pembroke Crescent, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 2V1, Canada (506 457-0232).

Witnesses are invited to call either author collect or to make arrangements to meet them at any of their stops in New Mexico, which include the cities of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Roswell.

Since many of the Roswell accounts and allegations were collected by irregular methods and are not specifically documented, the series of events as alleged by UFO theorists has become very complex and requires clarification. Therefore, the following section will briefly examine some of the more confusing elements of the Roswell stories, specifically, the multiple crash sites and complex scenarios, in order to facilitate an objective analysis of actual events.

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