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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.

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  • 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
58. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 16.
59. ibid., 17.
60. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17.
61. Maj. John P. Stapp, Human Tolerance to Linear Deceleration, Part I.
Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical
Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development
Center, 1949) and Maj. John P. Stapp, Part II. The Aft Facing Position and
the Development of a Crash Harness, Air Force Technical Report 5915
(Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, 1951 ).
62. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part II, 6.
63. Signed, sworn statement of Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., Col., USAF (Ret).
64. ibid.
65. Alderson Research Laboratories, Inc., "Instructions for Operation and
Maintenance, Model F-95 Anthropomorphic Test Dummies," May 3, 1956,
1, and Glenn Richards, retired Balloon Branch Instrumentation Specialist,
telephone interview with Capt. James McAndrew, September 5, 1995.
66. Alderson Research Laboratories, Inc., "Instructions for Operation and
Maintenance, Model F-95 Anthropomorphic Test Dummies;' May 3, 1956, 1,
and Ronald G. Hansen, Lt. Col. USAR, (Ret), Balloon Recovery Helicopter
Pilot, telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 1, 1995.
67. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 7-8.
68. Blankenship.
69. ibid.
70. The Beverly Hills Citizen, March 12, 1956,7.
71. Research Division, College of Engineering, New York University,
Special Report No.1, Constant Level Balloon, May 1947, 20-22.
72. Research Division, College of Engineering, New York University, Technical
Report No. 93.03, Constant Level Balloons, Operations, March 1, 1951, 105.
73. U.S. Air Force Phillips Laboratory, "Phillips Laboratory Space Experiments
Directorate, Balloon, Rocket, and Satellite Capabilities," n.d., 33.
74. Bernard D. Gildenberg, Balloon Branch Meteorologist and Engineer,
interviewed by 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 28, 1995, and
Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 73.
75. ibid.
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