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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.
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Additional similarities were also noted. Mr. Vern Maltais, a secondhand witness of the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, described the hands of the “aliens” as, “They had four fingers.“‘i Anderson characterized the hands as, “They didn’t have a little finger.“lh He also described the heads of the aliens as “completely bald”” while Maltais described them as “hair1ess.“‘8 The uniforms of the aliens were independently described by Anderson as “one-piece suits...a shiny silverish-gray color”” and by Maltais as “one-piece and gray in color.“2” The date of this event was also not precisely known. Maltais recalled that it may have occurred “around 1950”2’ and another secondhand witness, Alice Knight stated, “I don’t recall the date.“?’ Witnesses of different sites also used the terms “wreckeP3 and “six-by-six”2J when they described the military vehicles present at the different recovery sites. One witness described seeing a “medium sized Jeep/truck”25 and another witness described seeing a “weapons carrieP’ (a weapons carrier is a mid-sized Jeep-type truck). The Research Profile When the general and specific similarities were combined, a profile emerged describing the event or activity that might have been observed. The profile, which contains elements common to at least two, and in some cases, all of the accounts, established a set of criteria used to determine what the witnesses may have observed. The profile is as fol1ows: a. An activity that, if viewed from a distance,would appearunusual. b. An activity of which the exact date is not known. c. An activity that took place in two rural areas of New Mexico d. An activity that involved a type of aerial vehicle with dolls or dummies that had four fingers, were bald, and wore one- piece gray suits. e. An activity that required recovery by numerous military personnel and an assortment of vehicles that included a wrecker, a six-by-six, and a weapons carrier. Based on this profile, research was begun to identify events or activities with these characteristics. Due to the location of the sites, attention was focused on Roswell AAF (renamed Walker AFB in 1948), White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB, N.M. The aerial vehicles assigned or under development at these facilities were aircraft, missiles, remotely-piloted drones, and high altitude balloons. The operational characteristics and areas where these vehicles flew were researched to determine if they played a role in the events described by the witnesses.
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