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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. 53 …been plagued by failure with 10 unsuccessful missions in 1959 and 1960. With the eyes of…
  • p. 102 …on board, while on a refueling training mission, experienced a propeller failure four and one half…
  • p. 113 The three pilots, Kittinger, Kaufman and Fulgham, flew training missions together. Kaufman and Fulgham alternately flew…
  • p. 129 …Nenninger who died of injuries received in an aircraft crash during a balloon recovery mission on…
  • p. 171 …The recovery vehicles included, depending on the mission, a crane, weapons carriers, communications van, and occasionally…
  • p. 173 …I recall an overnight balloon training mission that was conducted in May, 1959. Capt Joe Kittinger…
  • p. 223 …ADA 323108 Gildenberg, Bernard G. "General Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control", in Lewis A. Grass…

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SECTION TWO

# Reports of Bodies at the Roswell AAF Hospital

This section examines the remaining portion of the Roswell Incident claims—the reports of "bodies" at the Roswell AAF hospital. Examinations of the various "crashed saucer" scenarios revealed references to the Roswell AAF hospital appeared in virtually all of them. Most of these were based on the account of one individual, W. Glenn Dennis. His undocumented and uncorroborated recollections, reportedly first related in 1989, over 42 years after the alleged Roswell Incident, are based on activities he allegedly encountered as a mortician providing contract services to the Roswell AAF hospital. Dennis' recollections have, in turn, been interpreted by UFO theorists as evidence that the U.S. Army Air Forces recovered "alien" bodies and autopsied them at the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947.

Dennis has been described as the "star witness" and his claims as the most credible of the Roswell Incident. $ ^{1} $ This, even though his most sensational assertions were not based on his own experiences but on information allegedly related to him by unidentified mystery witnesses.

Fig.1. The International UFO Museum and Research Center in Roswell, N.M.

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