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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…
Witness Description Air Force
Equipment/Procedure “Crash Site”
21. “It’s uniform was torn in Dummy uniforms were often
a couple spots...their uniforms secondhand, rips and other
were in pretty sad shape.“ln” defects were common but
Anderson they remained in service (fig. 75).
22. “Around the collar it [the
suit] was trimmed in...maroon-
like cording”lX7 Anderson
23. “They looked like they
had some sort of bandages
on ‘em...over his [the
crewmember’s] amx”” Anderson
24. [bandages] “around his
midsection and partially over
his shoulder”“*
The “Craft”
25. “It [the crewmember] felt
dead when I touched it, it was
very cold.“‘gO Anderson
26. “it was a dirigible, a blimp
that had crashed’-l A”d~~XNi
21. “a flying saucerthat had
burst open”lgi .+fdais
28. “clusters of thread like
material in the form of a
cable”lq3 Anderson
29. “others of those [cables]
went from one kind of package
of components to another kind
of package”‘w
30. “some kind of container,
a metal bo.x”lY’ Anderson
Reference to red duct tape
used to prevent air from
killing the dummy’s
flightsuit (figs. 29, 30).
Reference to tape and nylon
webbing used to prevent
arms and legs of dummy
from flailing. Tape was also
used to securethe removable
back plate of head (figs. 29,
30, 35.72-75).
Reference to parachute
harnessthat had chest and
shoulder straps.
Description of a high altitude
balloon payload that was
cold soakedat sub zero
temperatures of the upper
atmosphere.
Reference to a partially
inflated or deflated high
altitude balloon (figs. 23, 70).
Reference to the dummy
suspensionrack that did not
have sides (figs. 35, 73-75).
Numerous cables and wires
were used in the dummy
instrumentation kits and
balloon control package.
Both balloon control package and
dummy instrumentation kits were
connected by cables(fig. 73).
Reference to balloon control
package or dummy
instrumentation kit (fig. 73).
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