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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…
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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