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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. 20 …Since the 1940s, White Sands and the surrounding areas of New Mexico have been the site…
  • p. 21 …1992 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan soliciting witnesses of flying saucer crashes in New Mexico. When…
  • p. 131 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 20…
  • p. 189 …We drove down to the Plains of San Agustin which is west of Socorro, New Mexico…
  • p. 230 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert 2 rubber 5, 8 Ruidoso, N.M. 124 s SAC…
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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