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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…
At that time, Hynek was steadfast in his opinion that most, if not all, UFO
sightings could be resolved by applying known scientific analysis. 225 Kittinger
said he was "flabbergasted" when, years later, Hynek appeared to reverse
his opinion and endorse extraterrestrial explanations. 226 Hynek's reversal
in philosophies led to numerous commercial endeavors, most notably as a
technical advisor for the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
Also, based on his experience with project STARGAZER, Hynek was
familiar with balloon operations at Holloman AFB, visiting the Holloman
Balloon Branch several times. 227 Interestingly, there is no record that Hynek,
who died in 1986, ever endorsed what is now presented as the "best evidence"
of UFOs, the so-called Roswell Incident, which was actually a conglomeration
of numerous events, some with origins in Holloman AFB launched balloons.
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The Alien at the Hospital
In at least one account of the Roswell Incident, a witness claimed
he observed a "creature" walk under its own power into the hospital. 228
While the specifics of this particular sighting cannot be verified, the injury
that caused Fulgham's head to swell, resembling the classic science-fiction
alien head, makes this account (and some others) that at first appeared to be
the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible.
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Fig. 27. Clinical Record
Cover Sheet from medical
records of Capt. Dan D.
Fulgham describing injuries
he received in the balloon
accident on May 21, 1959.

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