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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…
Transcript of Interview with
James Ragsdale*
(Alleged firsthand witness to
"crash site" north of Roswell)
RAGSDALE, JAMES
26 JANUARY 1993
EYEWITNESS Transcript
OS: So you were actually out there.
JR: Yeah.
OS: Do you remember the name of the ranch it was on?"
JR: It was on ..• Fisher?
DS: Was it north of here.
JR: Yes •.• back out here.
DS: Northwest ••• Just take your time.
JR: It was Foster. (Some discussison with his wife about who
owned the ranch) ..• Let me see what you've got (referring to the
photographs). That's the place right there (identifying the
location from the pictures).
OS: What area?
JR: It seemed to me that that place belonged to ... Fisher, but it
sold to somebody else ••. somebody else bought that .. .
That's how come I was out in that
area. And we was out there and she's dead and all the guys I
showed the stuff are all dead. It's amazing what all went on ...
Discuss our book and the Museum.
DS: showing one of the pictures ••. so you think this looks like
JR: That looks like the place.
DS: As far as the ranches go, driving around at that time, it
could have been most any ranch, right? This would have been in
'47 ••• You were with this woman?
JR: Yeah. We were camped out out there.
DS: You were camping?
JR: Yeah ... I would say half of it ... I would say that only about
half of it .•. just half of a •.• you really couldn't tell what it
was ••• what you could still see, where it hit ... I think it was two
spaceships flying together and one them carne down and the other
one picked up what they could and got out of there.
*James Ragsdale, interview with Donald R. Schmitt, January 26, 1993.
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