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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
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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