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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. 20 …t he might have found a smoky gray In color and scattered !ly!ng disk. over…
  • p. 26 …a shiny silverish-gray color" 19 and by Maltais as "one-piece and gray in color…
  • p. 38 …This equipment consisted of a one-piece flightsuit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens…
  • p. 39 …This dummy is outfitted in a "sage green" colored flightsuit (a shade of gray) with red…
  • p. 64 …fingers, were bald and wore one-piece gray suits. e. An activity that required recovery by…
  • p. 68 …of the beings was "one-piece and gray in color" 121 The witness concluded that ''As…
  • p. 70 …a shiny silverish-gray color," "trimmed in ...maroon-like cording" 142 is a likely reference 61
  • p. 71 to a standard issue, gray, Air Force flightsuit used to outfit the dummies and red duct…
  • p. 79 …a shiny silverish gray color" 184 Anderson 20. "Their clothing seemed to be one piece and…
  • p. 191 …It was sort of a real shiny silverish gray color. Q: No zippers, buttons? A: No…
  • p. 195 …His hair was kind of light gray. And he walked over there and they got to…
Fig. 70. Project HIGH DIVE
anthropomorphic dummy
launch. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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Comparison of Witnesses
Accounts to U.S. Air Force Activities
Were they aliens or dummies? This question can be answered by
comparing witness testimony and the Air Force projects of the 1950s, HIGH
DIVE and ExcELSIOR. Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic
dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy the
requirements of the previously established research profile:
a. An activity that if viewed from a distance would appear
unusual.
b. An activity for which the exact date was not likely to have
been known because many dummies were dropped over a six-
year period (1953-1959).
c. An activity that took place in many areas of rural New Mexico.
d. An activity that involved a type of aerial vehicle with dummies
that had four fingers, were bald and wore one-piece gray suits.
e. An activity that required recovery by numerous military
personnel and an assortment of vehicles that included a wrecker,
a six-by-six, and a weapons carrier.
The testimony used in the following comparison, an undocumented
mixture of firsthand and secondhand re-countings, are the actual statements,
not the interpretations of UFO proponents, that are presented to "prove"
the Earth was visited by extraterrestrial beings and the U.S. Air Force
has covered up this fact since 1947. This comparison is augmented by
references to photographs whenever possible to illustrate the undeniable
similarities between the descriptions provided by the witnesses and the
equipment and methods employed by the Air Force projects.
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