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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. 16 …the MOGUL project, most of which were never classified (and publicly available) were collected, provided to…
  • p. 31 …There was never a program that required a dummy or doll to be placed inside a…
  • p. 65 …There was never a reason to mislead or threaten individuals who observed balloon operations. Relations with…
  • p. 76 …There was never a reason to disrespect, “scream,” ” holler,” or forbid any person from talking about…
  • p. 92 …The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: “Who in the hell are you…
  • p. 93 After this meeting Dennis claimed he never saw the nurse again, and he was told she…
  • p. 99 …recall ever meeting Dennis and had certainly never been visited by Dennis as he has claimed…
  • p. 101 …Since the witness has never provided documentation to support his claims, the only source of additional…
  • p. 136 …Examinations of official records of the alleged primary witnesses revealed that the “missing nurse” was never…
  • p. 175 …During these conversations Dr Nordstrom never mentioned any activities during his tour of duty I considered…
  • p. 178 …There is no classifiedinformation that I am withholding related to this inquiry and I have never…
  • p. 180 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 183 …and I ha\c never been threatened b!. I.‘.S. Gownmcnt persons concerning refraining from talking…
  • p. 188 …There is no classified information that I am withholding related to this inquiry and 1have never…
  • p. 194 …related to this inquiq and I have never been threatened by L.S. Ciovemment persons concerning…
  • p. 196 …I never Itlund out what happened to the other one. The next recolwy I remember was…
  • p. 197 …with him, and he, to my knowledge, never visited me in Farmington, Nh4, in Colorado, or…
  • p. 203 …I never heard a sound one, not out of any of the creatures including the one…
  • p. 209 …But he never got up? A: He never got up. He never left the beings that…
  • p. 210 …Whether they did so afterward, I don’t know, They never searchedus, ever. They ran us…
  • p. 213 …up and leaves and swears I’m never going to go back, and then I go…
  • p. 216 …She never went out of the city until she went to... My understanding was she never…
  • p. 219 …These were all people that I’d never seen before. That’s why I got in…
  • p. 222 …I never did. I went and took it back and put it in my personal file…
  • p. 224 …I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no one believes this damn…
  • p. 225 …I’ve never read this stuff, I’ve never watched the videos, I’ve never read…
  • p. 226 …He never was really a good friend of mine. We lived across the street from each…
  • p. 231 …I never seen anythiq like it. Looked like somethinq between a plastic...looked like carbon paper…
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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