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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.

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Missiles and Drones. Missiles and drones were determined not
to have been responsible for the accounts.’ The areas where the alleged
crashes took place were, in all likelihood, too far from the White Sands
Missile Range. Missiles were equipped with a self-destruct mechanism
that was activated if it strayed off-course or out of the White Sands
Missile Range. There was never a program that required a dummy or
doll to be placed inside a missile or a drone. However, missiles were
launched from White Sands carrying monkeys and other small animals
aloft for scientific research.” These projects were well documented, and
none of these missiles landed near either of the two crash sites.
Aircraft. Aircraft seemed just as unlikely as missiles to have
been responsible for the extraterrestrial claims as outlined in the profile.
Although additional research revealed the significant role dummies
played in the test and evaluation of aircraft emergency escape systems,
these dummies were used on board aircraft and on the high-speed test
track at Holloman AFB. However, aircraft test flights demanded strict
adherence to established flight profiles over the instrumented portions
of the White Sands Missile Range, many miles from the alleged crash
sites. Dummies used on the high-speed track remained in the immediate
vicinity of the track facilities at Holloman AFB. This geographical Figs. 12 & 13. Missiles (I+)
and dram (righr) under
impossibility ruled out dummies that were ejected from aircraft and those development at Holloman
used on the high-speed track as a cause of alleged alien sightings. (Aircraft AFB. N.M. were determined
accidents will be discussed extensively in Section Two of this report.) non tu have been involved
in the “Ruswell Incident.”
(U.S. Air Fore phoros)

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