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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.

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  • 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
40. "tankers, like, maybe had
fuel or water in 'em" 205
Anderson
41. "a military car"206
Anderson
42. "' 47 Ford car" 207
Ragsdale
43. "there was a jeep that was
pulling a trailer with a motor on
it, like a generator."208
Anderson
Aircraft
44. "observation aircraft...high
winged aircraft"209
Anderson
45. "C-47 sittin there"[on the
road] 2w
Anderson
Procedures
46. "The federal government
could have been doing
something because they didn't
want anyone to know what this
was ... they was using dummies
in those damned things ... they
could use remote control" 211
Ragsdale
47. "they took everybody's
name and everything"212
Anderson
48. "they cleaned everything all
up .. .I mean they cleaned
everything" 213
Ragsdale
73
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
reference to M-49 fuel trucks
used to refuel aircraft or
helium trailer used to inflate
balloon (figs. 23, 70, 80, 81).
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.. civilia:o: cars were.pften t\sed
fotha:l.~ooil teco:ver:ies.:and< ·
· htulicbe$(Ffg; 71); ~
Reference to 1-ton trailer and
MB-19 15 Kilowatt diesel
generator that were used at
balloon launch and recovery
locations (fig. 71 ).
Reference to an L-20
aircraft, primary "chase"
aircraft used for balloon
recovery in the mid 1950s
(fig. 77).
C-4 7 aircraft were often
used on dummy launch and
recovery operations (fig. 78).
Reference to balloon borne
anthropomorphic dummies
that were dropped by remote
control by balloon controllers
at Holloman AFB
Procedure used by balloon
Branch to ensure payment
of $25 reward and to settle
claims of property damage.
Balloon Branch personnel
were required to remove as
much debris as possible from
balloon and payload landing
areas to avoid complaints and
legal actions.
"Crash Site"
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