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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. 113 …John Walter (now a retired Master Sergeant), both of whom assisted in the processing and identification…
  • p. 128 …Balloon Branch Communications Technician, AX Ole Jorgeson, now B retired Master Sergeant, in the rear compartment…
  • p. 129 …While waiting for the injured pilots, A2C Ole Jorgeson, now a retired Master Sergeant, recalled in…
  • p. 132 …Roland H. “Hap” Lutz, now a retired Chief Master Sergeant, recalled when he first contacted the…
  • p. 179 …During my Air Force career, I earned both a Master’s and Doctorate degree from Purdue…
anecdotal accounts that referred to bodies also described massive field
operations conducted by the U.S. military to recover crash debris from a
supposed extraterrestrial spaceship.
A technique used by some UFO authors to collect anecdotal
corroboration for their theories was to solicit cooperating witnesses through
newspaper announcements. For example, one such solicitation appeared in
the Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan on November 4, 1992, on behalf of
Fig. 3. An illustration of a
Project Mocm balloon train
similar to one found on a ranch
75 miles northwest of Roswell,
N.M. in June 1947. which
contains all of the “strange”
materials described as part of a
“flying disc.” Initial confusion
at Roswell AAF and delayed
identification of this equipment
was the first in a series of
unrelated events now known
as the “Roswell Incident.”
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