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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. 20 …t he might have found a smoky gray In color and scattered !ly!ng disk. over…
  • p. 26 …a shiny silverish-gray color" 19 and by Maltais as "one-piece and gray in color…
  • p. 38 …This equipment consisted of a one-piece flightsuit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens…
  • p. 39 …This dummy is outfitted in a "sage green" colored flightsuit (a shade of gray) with red…
  • p. 64 …fingers, were bald and wore one-piece gray suits. e. An activity that required recovery by…
  • p. 68 …of the beings was "one-piece and gray in color" 121 The witness concluded that ''As…
  • p. 70 …a shiny silverish-gray color," "trimmed in ...maroon-like cording" 142 is a likely reference 61
  • p. 71 to a standard issue, gray, Air Force flightsuit used to outfit the dummies and red duct…
  • p. 79 …a shiny silverish gray color" 184 Anderson 20. "Their clothing seemed to be one piece and…
  • p. 191 …It was sort of a real shiny silverish gray color. Q: No zippers, buttons? A: No…
  • p. 195 …His hair was kind of light gray. And he walked over there and they got to…
Notes - Section One
15. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Maltais interview.
16. ibid., Anderson interview.
17. ibid.
18. ibid., Maltais interview.
19. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
20. Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, The Roswell Incident
(New York: Berkley, 1980), 61.
21. ibid.
22. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Alice Knight interview.
23. Ragsdale and Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
24. ibid.
25. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
26. Ragsdale.
27. James M. Grimwood, Project Mercury: A Chronology, Report No.
SP4001 (Wash. D.C.: NASA, 1963) 2-3, and Lloyd Malian, Men,
Rockets and Space Rats, (New York: Julian Messier Inc., 1955) 84-98.
28. Research Division, College of Engineering, New York University,
Technical Report No. 93.02, Constant Level Balloons, Section 3,
Summary of Flights, July 15, 1949.
29. Capt. Vincent Mazza and Capt. Richard V. Wheeler, High Altitude
Bailouts, MCREXD-695-66M (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: USAF
Air Materiel Command, September 18, 1950), 10-11.
30. A.M. Jacobs, "The Flier's SOS," St. Nicholas Magazine,
Vol. LII, No. 10 (August 1925), 1034-1039.
31. ibid.
32. Memo, Major H.H. Arnold, Chief Field Service Section, to
Commanding Officer, San Antonio Air Depot, subj: Drop Testing
of Parachutes, November 2, 1929. National Air and Space Museum
Archives, Paul E. Garber Facility, Silver Hill, Md., file no. 452.031,
Parachutes- (Dummies) 1927-1929.
33. J. Allen Neal, History: Development of Methods for Escape from
High Speed Aircraft, Vol. 1, (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: Air
Research and Development Command, 1958), U.S. Air Force
Museum Archives, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
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