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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.

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Witness Description	Air Force Equipment/Procedure	“Crash Site”
49. “they had the road barricaded off”214Anderson	Procedure used for aircraft operations.	Site 2
50. “they had the road sealed off”215Ragsdale	Corroboration of description #49. See above.	Site 1
51. “airplanes sitting there they had landed on the highway”216Anderson	Established procedure to refuel an aircraft, launch a balloon from an isolated location or recover a small payload near a rural road.	Site 2
52. “there was airplanes in the sky”[over the crash site]217Anderson	Reference to balloon “chase” aircraft used to direct ground recovery crews to balloon impact site.	Site 2
53. “stretching out cables of some kind...they were stretching stuff out on the ground,dragging stuff out of trucks”218Anderson	Reference to balloon inflation procedure that required the balloon and ground cloth to be removed from a vehicle and laid on the ground(fig.79).	Site 2

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