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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…
Notes - Section One
45. ibid.
46. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 1, and High Altitude Balloon
Dummy Drops Part II, 18.
47. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., The Long, Lonely Leap, (New York: E.P.
Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961), and Lt. Col. David G. Simons, Man High, (New
York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960), and Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger,
Jr., "The Long, Lonely Leap," National Geographic 118, no. 6 (December
1960): 854-873, "Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth,"
Life 49, no. 9 (August 29,1960): 20-25, Popular Mechanics Magazine,
January 1951: 118, Collier's, June 25, 1954, Time, September 12, 1955,
"The Fastest Man on Earth".
48. Don Reilly, "MAD Salutes an Unsung Hero:' MAD, no. 61, (March 1961), 46.
49. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, and High Altitude Balloon
Dummy Drops Part II.
50. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, 11-12.
51. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret)
and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 16.
52. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 5.
53. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17.
54. ibid., and Memorandum, subj: Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d.,
National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67B-2133,
box 65/249, file 2, "Biophysics Branch-Escape Section, High Altitude Escape
Studies, 7218-71719;' and Robert Blankenship, retired Balloon Branch Recovery
Supervisor, telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, July 14, 1995.
55. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).
56. Blankenship, and Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., and
Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon
Operations in the Southwestern United States (hereafter Meteorological
Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United
States), AFCRL-66-706 (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force
Cambridge Research Laboratories, October 1966), 27.
57. Historical Branch, Office of Information Services, Air Force Missile
Development Center, Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and
Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman AFB,
N. Mex. 1947-1958 (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development
Command, 1958) (hereafter Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research
and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1947-1958), 90.
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