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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. 14 …1 Records located describing research carried out under the MoGUL project, most of which were never…
  • p. 27 …There was never a program that required a dummy or doll to be placed inside a…
  • p. 60 …There was never a reason to mislead or threaten individuals who observed balloon operations. Relations with…
  • p. 70 …There was never a reason to disrespect, "scream," "holler," or forbid any person from talking about…
  • p. 86 …The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: "Who in the hell are you…
  • p. 87 After this meeting Dennis claimed he never saw the nurse again, and he was told she…
  • p. 92 …recall ever meeting Dennis and had certainly never been visited by Dennis as he has claimed…
  • p. 94 …Since the witness has never provided documentation to support his claims, the only source of additional…
  • p. 127 …Examinations of official records of the alleged primary witnesses revealed that the "missing nurse" was never…
  • p. 164 …During these conversations Dr Nordstrom never mentioned any activities during his tour of duty I considered…
  • p. 167 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 169 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 172 …related to this inquiry and 1 have never been threatened by C. S. Go\lernmcnt persons…
  • p. 174 …rdated to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 177 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 181 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by t:.s. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 183 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by C.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 185 …I never found out what happened to the other one. ·n1e next recovery I remember was…
  • p. 186 …with him, and he, to my knowledge, never visited me in Farmington, NM, in Colorado, or…
  • p. 190 …I never heard a sound one, not out of any of the creatures including the one…
  • p. 196 …But he never got up? A: He never got up. He never left the beings that…
  • p. 197 …They never searched us, ever. They ran us back up the hill and when we got…
  • p. 200 …up and leaves and swears I'm never going to go back, and then I go…
  • p. 203 …She never went out of the city until she went to ... My understanding was she never…
  • p. 206 …These were all people that I'd never seen before. That's why I got in…
  • p. 209 …I never did. I went and took it back and put it in my personal file…
  • p. 211 …I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no one believes this damn…
  • p. 212 …I've never read this stuff, I've never watched the videos, I've never read…
  • p. 213 …He never was really a good friend of mine. We lived across the street from each…
  • p. 218 …I never seen anythig like it. Looked like something between a plastic ... looked like carbon paper…
Guide For Readers
This publication contains the complete report as submitted to
the Secretary of the Air Force. The exceptions are the statements found in
Appendix B. Due to Privacy Act restrictions and by request, the addresses
of the individuals making these statements have been deleted.
This volume is divided into two sections, eight subsections,
eleven sidebar discussions, and three appendices. Section One examines
alleged events at two locations in rural New Mexico. Section Two
examines the alleged activities at the Roswell Army Airfield Hospital.
Appendix A is a table listing the launch and landing locations of
test equipment for U.S. Air Force scientific research projects HIGH DIVE
and ExcELSIOR. Appendix B is a collection of signed sworn statements
based on in-person interviews conducted for this report by U.S. Air Force
researchers. The exception is the statement of Lt. Col. William C.
Kaufman, which was not sworn due to equipment failures at the time
of interview.
Appendix C contains transcripts of interviews of alleged
witnesses presented by UFO theorists. The interviews of Gerald Anderson,
Alice Knight, and Vern Maltais were excerpted in their entirety from
unedited interviews used to prepare the video, Recollections of Roswell,
Part II ( 1993 ), and appear courtesy of the Fund for UFO Research. The
interview of Mr. W. Glenn Dennis was provided by the interviewer, Karl
T. Pflock. The transcript of the interview of Mr. James Ragsdale was
provided by Kevin Randle, the coauthor of the Truth About the UFO
Crash at Roswell (Avon Books, 1994), in which direct quotes from this
transcript appear.
A selected bibliography of technical reports and how to obtain
them are found on page 221. For additional information on this subject,
see Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs.
Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government
Printing Office, 1995).
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