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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. 50 …For the first time, scientists were able to make detailed, sustained studies of the upper atmosphere…
  • p. 59 …In the flat, featureless desert areas of southeastern New Mexico near Roswell, the parachutes, payloads, the…
  • p. 154 …Kittinger, Jr., The Long, Lonely Leap, (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961) 131. 150
  • p. 222 Selected Bibliography of Technical Reports The technical reports listed below are available for sale by contacting…
Fig. 63. On occasion, Air
Force balloon recovery crews
rented or borrowed equipment
from local residents. This
bulldozer was rented for one
recovery in the Sacramento
mountains west of Roswell.
(photo collection of Robert
Blankenship)
Fig. 64. Balloon Branch
vehicle at roadside cafe.
This M-43 3/4-ton field
ambulance, converted by the
Holloman Balloon Branch into
a communications vehicle,
was a common sight in the
areas surrounding Roswell
during the 1950s and early
1960s. (photo collection of
Ole Jorgeson)
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