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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

US Air Force · 1997 · 234 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 6 …The interviews of Gerald Anderson, Alice Knight, and Vern Maltais were excerpted in their entirety from…
  • p. 9 …182 APPENDIX C Interviews Gerald Anderson ......................................................................................... 187 Glenn Dennis .............................................................................................. 197 Alice Knight ................................................................................................ 213 Vern Maltais ................................................................................................ 214…
  • p. 25 …Gerald Anderson, an alleged witness of events at the site 175 miles northwest of Roswell, recalled…
  • p. 26 …aliens" as, "They had four fingers." 15 Anderson characterized the hands as, "They didn't have…
  • p. 69 …Gerald Anderson "/thought they were plastic dolls.. ./ didn't think they were real" 126 Anderson related…
  • p. 70 …133 Anderson also recalled that the military personnel threatened some of the civilians with imprisonment or…
  • p. 76 …Since one witness, Gerald Anderson, described procedures consistent with the launch and recovery of high altitude…
  • p. 78 …I thought they were plastic dolls" 167 Anderson 3. "an experimental plane with dummies in it…
  • p. 79 …completely bald" 181 Anderson 17. "no visible ears ... just a rise there and then a hole…
  • p. 80 …maroon- used to prevent air from like cording" 187 filling the dummy's Anderson flightsuit (figs…
  • p. 81 …thing over it"200 Anderson 36. "wreckers with cranes on 'em"2ot 37. "a wrecker" 202…
  • p. 82 Witness Description 40. "tankers, like, maybe had fuel or water in 'em" 205 Anderson 41. "a…
  • p. 83 …217 Anderson 53. "stretching out cables of some kind ... they were stretching stuff out on the…
  • p. 131 …Video, Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Gerald Anderson interview (Washington, D.C.: Fund for UFO Research…
  • p. 132 …ibid., Anderson interview. 17. ibid. 18. ibid., Maltais interview. 19. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson…
  • p. 139 …Gerald Anderson, Barney Barnett, and the Archaeologists, Introduction (Chicago, IL, Washington, D.C.: J. Allen Hynek…
  • p. 140 …Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview. 142. ibid. 143. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A…
  • p. 141 …ibid., Anderson interview. 175. ibid., Maltais interview. 176. ibid. 177. ibid., Anderson interview. 178. Ragsdale. 179…
  • p. 142 …Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview. 213. Ragsdale. 214. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson…
  • p. 156 …Video, Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Gerald Anderson interview, (Washington, D.C.: Fund for UFO Research…
  • p. 189 Transcript of Interview with Gerald Anderson* Alleged firsthand witness to "Crash Site" Two (allegedly 175 miles…
  • p. 226 …76-78, 99, 105, 109, 113-116 Anderson, Gerald 14, 60-61, 67. See also interview…
Comparison of the Account to the KC-97 Mishap
This series of actual events contains extensive similarities to
the account provided by Dennis. The numerous and extensive similarities
indicate that some elements of this actual event were most probably included
in Dennis' account. This aircraft accident provides an explanation for the
following elements of the research profile-the very mangled, black, little
bodies in body bags, the odor, the two strange doctors, and the report of a
redheaded colonel.
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Aircraft Crashes and UFOs
Since the first flying saucer story in June 1947, persons have attempted to
exploit actual military aircraft accidents to support UFO theories and propagate
the flying saucer phenomenon.
One of the first exploitation attempts involved a fatal August 1, 1947
Army Air Forces B-25 accident near Kelso, Wash. Descriptions of this
accident, which UFO theorists contend was caused because the aircraft carried
parts of a flying saucer, were included in a poorly executed hoax. Nonetheless,
it received a considerable amount of attention.
Another incidence was photographs of an "alien," supposedly from a
1948 crash of a flying saucer in Mexico. However, when the photographs were
examined by Air Force officials, they noticed a pair of government issue,
aviator style, sunglasses lying underneath the "alien" body.
Perhaps the most famous attempt to exploit an actual aircraft accident
involved the fatal January 1948 crash of a Kentucky Air National Guard F-51
fighter near Franklin, Ky. Theorists contend the fighter was shot down by a
UFO. However, it was determined that this aircraft most probably crashed
while observing a newly invented high altitude research balloon thought to be a
UFO. The large balloon, which matched eyewitnesses' descriptions at the time,
was released the previous day, and its ground track placed it precisely in the
area where the unidentified object was sighted the next day. Regardless,
shameless attempts to exploit this event continued as recently as 1995, when
the tabloid TV program, Sightings, aired and published (Sightings, Simon &
Schuster, 1996, 170-176) a distorted interpretation of this tragedy.
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The "Black" "Little Bodies." Review of the autopsy protocols of
the victims of this accident revealed extensive similarities to the descriptions
of the bodies allegedly described by the missing nurse. Dennis related in
various interviews that the missing nurse described, " ... three; very mangled;
black; little bodies in body bags." 132 Records of this mishap confirmed that
the victims suffered "injuries, extreme, multiple." 133 According to persons
who assisted in the identification of the remains from this crash, and in
compliance with Air Force directives in effect at that time, human remains
pouches, commonly called body bags, were used to recover and transport
victims' bodies. 134
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