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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…
to be a C-47 setting there. And how we didn't hear that land is beyond me
and how he landed-well, of course, I guess you could land it if you're a
good pilot out there as there were no poles or anything.
And it was-they had tom the fence down on the north side of the
highway and all this equipment was setting back up there. The plane was
up there and they were taking stuff out of the plane. There was military
ambulances and there were trucks with-like wreckers, cranes on them. And
there was tankers, like maybe had fuel or water in them. There was just-
everywhere you looked there was military.
Q: A major recovery operation?
A: Yes, it looked like an invasion force. It really did.
And they were all wearing these light khaki uniforms. They didn't
look like, you know, olive drabs. They were light khaki and they all had the
same patch over their-that kind of blue funny patch with the circles on it,
was on his shoulder.
And a lot...
Q: Do you have a clue as to where they came from? Did your
brother or your uncle?
A: No. I don't know where they came from. No, I don't think
anybody ever ascertained that.
There were a lot of MP patches and some of them were wearing
nightsticks off of these webbed utility belts. They had night sticks and they
had .45's in holsters, you know, the automatics, full holsters. And these were
the people that were giving most of the orders.
They had the road barricaded off out there and we sat there for a
very long time and, you know, we were getting thirsty and everything and we
asked if we could go back to Horse Springs to get some water.
"Oh, no, no. You can't through there."
And right after that, they said, "Now you just tum around and you
head out of here now and you go to Socorro," and this is the redhead again,
"Keep you mouths shut. Just keep going and don't look back."
Well, as we drove away, you know, dad, "The hell with it, we'll go
to Magdalena. We'll get water in Magdalena." You know, because that's
where John Trujillo lived, a relative of Ted's.
And so as we drove away, I was looking out the back window and I
could see Dr. Buskirk and these kids and that guy, the guy in the pick-up was
standing there and this Dr. Buskirk was doing just like this in this redheaded
officer's face and he kept pointing back behind him and I guess that meant,
you know, we've got to go back that way and he was fed up with this guy or
something and he was shaking his finger in his face when they were yelling
at each other and that's pretty much the last I saw of the whole situation. I
don't know what happened after that because we just kept going.
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