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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. 30 …a shiny silverish-gray color”” and by Maltais as “one-piece and gray in color.“2…
  • p. 43 …This equipment consisted of a one-piece flightsuit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens…
  • p. 44 …This dummy is outtitted in a “sage green” colored flightsuit (a shade of gray) Cth red…
  • p. 70 …fingers, were bald and wore one-piece gray suits. e. An activity that required recovery by…
  • p. 74 …of the beings was “one-piece and gray in coloP’ The witness concluded that “As they…
  • p. 76 …The assertionthat ‘they were all wearing one-piece suits...ashiny silverish-gray color,” “trimmed in ...maroon…
  • p. 77 to a standardissue,gray, Air Force flightsuit used to outfit the dummies and red duct-type…
  • p. 85 …19. “they were all wearing one piece suits-a shiny silverish gray color”‘X4 Anderron 20…
  • p. 204 …It was sort of a real shiny silverish gray color. Q: No zippers, buttons? A: No…
  • p. 208 …His hair was kind of light gray. And he walked over there and they got to…
This brief testimony suggests that the witness did not know
the date of this event. It also appears that the “creatures” were seen from
a distance, as evidenced by the statement, “They got nearly up to the
UFO but it was close enough that you could see some creatures.” The
testimony also seems consistent with a description of anthropomorphic
dummies as the witness stated they “didn’t look like human beings.”
Vern Maltais
This secondhandwitness alleged that the eyewitnesstold him
he observed“beings” from a “flying saucerthat had burst open” that
were “about three and a half to four feet tall, vety slim...their headswere hairless,
with no eyebrows, no eyelashes,no hair’ with “sort of a pear-shapedhead.” He
also related that “the beings were...not exactly like human beings...similar but
not exactly.” He describedthat the handsof the beings “were not covered”...and
[they] only had “four fingers.” He also related that the clothing of the beings
was “one-piece and gray in coloP’ The witness concluded that “As they [the
witnesses]were just starting to look things over really closely, the military moved
in and gave them a briefing to not say anything about it.”
Assessment
This description of events also indicates that the eyewitness
apparently did not closely examine the scene and was “just starting to look
things over” when the military arrived. As with the previous testimony, from
a distance the dummies were likely to look, as described by the witness, “not
exactly like humans...similar but not exactly.” The description of the flying
saucer that had “burst open” is a likely description of the dummy suspension
rack that was open on the sides (seefigures 74,75,76). The detailed
descriptions of the “beings” as “about three and a half to four feet tall, very
slim in stature...their heads were hairless, with no eyebrows, no eyelashes,
Fig. 72. “Their heads were
hairless...no eyebrows, no
eyelashes, no hair.” a likely
description of Alderson
Laboratories type
anthropomorphic dummy.
These Alderson dummies,
of the same type used for
Projects HIGH DIVFEXCELSIOK,
were used to test NASAi
AWLLO spacecraft three-man
couch at Holloman AFB, N.M.
in 1965. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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