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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 Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 12 …Fiction In The New Mexico Desert. 2. The lnternational UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, N…
  • p. 23 …White Sands and the surrounding areas of New Mexico hare been the site of a high…
  • p. 142 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 20…
  • p. 202 …We drove down to the Plains of San Agustin which is west of Socorro, New Mexico…
I panicipavzd in many, probably more than 100~balloon recovcks. I otien recover-ed
payloads and balloons fi-om the area wTounding RoswelL 3% I. It was routine to be
dil-ectedby fhe balloon control center to an are3 near Roswell to wait tto recover a balloon.
&.e Kould wait along the side of the road: at small atiorts. or ai the wnov in Roswell. It
would not be uncommon t’or ow recovery vehicles to lx sew waiting to recover balloons
throughout Yew Xlexico. Arizona. and LVestTexas. \$Xen wc recovered the balloons and
payloads sometimes ci\ikms would be in the area and make inquires. Kc would rell them
what we tvere doins and prox,ide them with a telephone number at Hollomm CW3 if the!
wxncd to sport anv damages, 1Vc were required to &an up the area and remove ail
debris befox we I&. In addition lo the recoveries: I recall making balloon launches Corn
sites up :4nddown the Rio Grande k-alley. I remember that some of these launches were
made from an arca west of Soccoro, ?Cvl.
,&other project I participated in was the testins of the Viking space probe in 1972. Thaw
four launches bvereall made from the Rosweil Induskal Air Center. the lkner RoswAl
:tirny Airfield. .+pprosimatei>,twen& Air Force personnel WCK on temporary du& to
RowelI throughout the summer of 1972 to suppoxl this project. Y.AS.4 personnel
prepared the spacecraft ior launch from the old hangers ol’<nc former Air Force base. ‘!his
pro.iect was not classikd and was covered by the news media.
I am not part of any conspiracy to withhold or provide mislcadin~ informakn to the
United States Government or the .tierican IxMic. There is no classified information that
I am v&holding related to this inqyiy and I haw nelw been threatened by E.S.
Governmen persons concemins rekaming kom walkingabout this matter.
SKYED: Subscribed and sworn beftire mc. an
indkidual authorixd IO administtx
oaths$is 2Qh day 1995
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