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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…
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ATrn'r Mr. R.L. Maeon
toss of MR Equipment
'iCllDB-4 19 J"an 56
Lt. Nielsen/lbc
Ext. 2-4194/B.J3
1. On 17 November 1955, en anthropo!!Orphic dlllllley'o B-15 jacket and a stop watch
were lost during a hi&~ altitude dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Forcs Base,
New 1-B:cico,
2. The drop was performed to determine the affectiTeness of a two stc.ge
personnel parechute ill lowering a =·like dllllley from 85\000 feet. The test was part
of a continuing task •High Altitude Escape Studiaa•, 7218-71719. The point at which
the dUOJllllY reached the ground vas not lalovn to the recovery crews at the time and an ex-
tensive search lasting through the firat week of DeceMber 1955 failed to discoTer the
lC>st items.
3· !.ost ores
a, l ea., dllllllcy', anthropomorphic, Sierre Ecgineering Co. model 120, stock
no. 3500-NL-30010,
b. 1 ea,, jacket, B-l-5, spec. ,3220, abe 36, stock no. 8415-269-0512,
c. 1 ea., stop watch, Fisher Scientific eo. P/N 14-646, stock no, BT,\A
9854.5.
4, Because of the loss of these i tams as a result ot a test, 1 t is requested
that Lt. Henry F. Nielsen be relieved of tha responaibilit7 for these items,
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Figs. 36-38. Actual
photographs of an Alderson
Laboratories type
anthropomorphic dummy
falling away from its
suspension rack at high
altitude over New Mexico.
Fig. 37 (center) appears on
the cover of this publication.
(U.S. Air Force photos)
Fig. 39. Memo taken from
Project HIGH DIVE files
explaining the loss of a
dummy near Roswell, N.M.
in November 1955.

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