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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…
Witness Description Air Force "Crash Site"
Equipment/Procedure
21. "It's uniform was torn in Dummy uniforms were often Site 2
a couple spots ... their uniforms secondhand, rips and other
were in pretty sad shape." 186 defects were common but
Anderson they remained in service (fig. 75).
22. "Around the collar it [the Reference to red duct tape Site 2
suit] was trimmed in ... maroon- used to prevent air from
like cording" 187 filling the dummy's
Anderson flightsuit (figs. 29, 30).
23. "They looked like they Reference to tape and nylon Site 2
had some sort of bandages webbing used to prevent
on 'em ... over his [the arms and legs of dummy
crewmember's] arm." 188 from flailing. Tape was also
Anderson used to secure the removable
back plate of head (figs. 29,
30, 35, 72-75).
24. [bandages] "around his Reference to parachute Site 2
midsection and partially over harness that had chest and
his shoulder" 189 shoulder straps.
Anderson
The "Craft"
25. "It [the crewmember] felt Description of a high altitude Site 2
dead when I touched it, it was balloon payload that was
very cold." 190 cold soaked at sub zero
Anderson temperatures of the upper
atmosphere.
26. "it was a dirigible, a blimp Reference to a partially Site 2
that had crashed" 191 inflated or deflated high
Anderson altitude balloon (figs. 23, 70).
27. "a flying saucer that had Reference to the dummy Site 2
burst open" 192 suspension rack that did not
Maltais have sides (figs. 35, 73-75).
28. "clusters of thread like Numerous cables and wires Site 2
material in the form of a were used in the dummy
cable" 193 instrumentation kits and
Anderson balloon control package.
29. "others of those [cables] Both balloon control package and Site 2
went from one kind of package dummy instrumentation kits were
of components to another kind connected by cables (fig. 73).
of package" 194
Anderson
30. "some kind of container, Reference to balloon control Site 2
a metal box" 195 package or dummy
Anderson instrumentation kit (fig. 73).
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