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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 …1993 ), and appear courtesy of the Fund for UFO Research. The interview of Mr. W. Glenn…
  • p. 67 …Roswell Part II, by the The Fund for UFO Research (see Appendix C). Alice Knight "I…
  • p. 69 …of Roswell Part II by the Fund for UFO Research (see Appendix C) and Crash at…
  • p. 131 …The Fund for UFO Research, 1995), 2. 10. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report…
  • p. 138 …Fund for UFO Research, 1994), 167. 108. James Ragsdale, interview with Donald R. Schmitt, January 26…
  • p. 139 …Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and The Fund for UFO Research, June 1992), 2. 124…
  • p. 141 …Fund for UFO Research, 1994), 167. 166. Ragsdale. 167. FrnnkJ. Kaufman, interview with Kevin Randle and…
  • p. 143 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993) (hereafter Recollections of Roswell, Part II). 4. Recollections of Roswell, Part…
  • p. 156 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993). 194. Kittinger and Air Force Form 77, "USAF Officer Effectiveness Report…
  • p. 189 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993). 187
  • p. 215 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993). 213
  • p. 216 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993). 214
  • p. 228 …Signed sworn statement in Appendix B Fund for UFO Research, The 58, 60, 186, 213, 215…
Witness Description
31. "it was ice cold, it felt like
it just came out of a freezer" 196
Anderson
Vehicles
32. a "jeeplike truck that had
a bunch of radios in it and two
big antennas .... There was a
guy sittin' in there wearin'
earphones and he was talking
on the radio." 197
Anderson
33. "weapons carriers" 198
Ragsdale
34. "six by six Army trucks" 199
Ragsdale
35. "six by [six] ... military
truck with canvas ... wagon
type ... thing over it"200
Anderson
36. "wreckers [with] cranes
on 'em"2ot
37. "a wrecker" 202
38. "there was military
ambulances " 203
39. "the pick-up" 204
Anderson
Ragsdale
Anderson
Anderson
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
Condition of a balloon
payload after it has been
"cold soaked" in the upper
atmosphere at temperatures
far below zero.
Reference to a modified
M-37 3/4-ton utility truck,
commonly referred to as a
weapons carrier, unique to
I the Balloon Branch. >One
of the primacy vehicles
used by recovery crews.
Balloons were tracked by
direction finding gear and
required a. radio operator to
wear headphones (fig. 32).
Corroboration of description
#32. See above.
Reference to M-35 2l/2~ton
cargo truck used to transport
. dunnnies and suspension
racks for launch and
re.coveries (fig. 31).
Corroboration· of description
#34. See.aboVe,
reference to M-246wrecker
11sed to la11nch and recover
··anthropomorphic dummy
payloads (tlgs. 23, 28, 70).
Corroboration of description
# 36. See above.
Reference to a converted M-43
ambulances used as balloon
recovery communications
vehicles (figs. 64, 71, 80).
Pick-up trucks were often
used to recover
anthropomorphic dummies
(figs. 71, 79).
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