The Roswell Report: Case Closed

CLM-005031 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The July 1994 Air Force report concluded that the predecessor to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, did indeed recover material near Roswell in July 1947.”

CLM-005033 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The 'flying disc' found by Brazel was a standard radar target.”

CLM-005034 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Air Force personnel engaged in anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations.”

CLM-005035 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The 'alien bodies' at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital were most likely a combination of two separate incidents.”

CLM-005036 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The 'alien bodies' at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital were most likely a combination of two separate incidents.”

CLM-005037 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“From 1947 until the late 1970s, the Roswell Incident was confined to one alleged crash site.”

CLM-005038 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“One of these sites was supposedly north of Roswell, the other site was alleged to have been approximately 175 miles northwest of Roswell in an area of New Mexico known as the San Agustin Plains.”

CLM-005039 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“What distinguished the two new crash sites from the original debris field were accounts of alien bodies.”

CLM-005040 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“UFO enthusiasts have attempted to explain the obvious contradiction of multiple impact sites involving only one alien craft through the introduction of complicated scenarios.”

CLM-005041 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The actual Project Mogul landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility, and more importantly establishes a timeframe, for the other accounts that include reports of bodies.”

CLM-005042 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The claims of bodies only became part of the Roswell Incident after 1978, when they were erroneously linked to the July 1947 retrieval of Project Mogul components.”

CLM-005043 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The remaining testimony was examined with regard both to the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common threads or links connecting any of the accounts.”

CLM-005044 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The profile is as follows: a. An activity that, if viewed from a distance, would appear unusual.”

CLM-005045 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“A careful examination of the instruments carried aloft by the high altitude balloons revealed that one unique project used a device that very likely could be mistaken for an alien — an anthropomorphic dummy.”

CLM-005055 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Many high altitude balloons launched from Holloman AFB, N.M., were recovered in locations, and under circumstances, that strongly resemble those described by UFO proponents as the recovery of a 'flying saucer' and 'alien' crew.”

CLM-005059 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“During the late 1940's and 1950's, a characteristic associated with the large, newly invented, polyethylene balloons, was that they were often misidentified as flying saucers.”

CLM-005063 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The Roswell Incident is often described as the crash of a flying saucer, but it is now believed to be the recovery of a high altitude balloon.”

CLM-005066 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy the requirements of the previously established research profile.”

CLM-005067 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy the requirements of the previously established research profile.”

CLM-005068 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The exact location is not known since the witness, Mr. James Ragsdale, in two separate sworn statements, has described two different sites, many miles apart.”

CLM-005073 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“They thought it was a 'blimp.'”

CLM-005083 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Statements such as 'they was using dummies in those damned things' and a characterization of the crashed vehicle as, 'I thought it was a blimp' are two of the many similarities.”

CLM-005084 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Witnesses described procedures consistent with the launch and recovery of high altitude balloons.”

CLM-005106 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The identification specialist arrived at Walker AFB on June 27, 1956 and made positive identifications of the 11 crewmen on June 28, 1956.”

CLM-005107 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Only six manned flights were made for Man High and Excelsior.”

CLM-005108 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The accident occurred on May 21, 1959, 10 miles northwest of Walker AFB, on a pilot training mission for the upcoming Project Excelsior and Stargazer flights scheduled to begin that fall.”

CLM-005109 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The accident revealed actual events that closely resembled the remaining portions of the established profile.”

CLM-005110 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The redheaded captain is a likely reference to the hospital commander, Col. Lee F. Ferrell.”

CLM-005111 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Wreckage found in the rear of an ambulance outside the Walker AFB hospital.”

CLM-005112 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Heightened state of security at the Walker AFB hospital.”

CLM-005113 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“A body with a large head that was shipped to Wright-Patterson AFB.”

CLM-005114 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Excelsior's scientific objective was to develop a parachute system and techniques required to return a pilot or astronaut to earth following an emergency high altitude escape.”

CLM-005115 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“On December 13, 1962, Kittinger and U.S. Navy civilian astronomer William C. White rose to 86,000 feet to make astronomical observations with a gyro-stabilized telescope.”

CLM-005117 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Technology developed for MISS was transferred to NASA in 1959 and became part of Project Mercury, the initial series of U.S. space missions.”

CLM-005118 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Project Excelsior was the dramatic climax of the high altitude free-fall studies that began as Project High Dive in 1953 using anthropomorphic dummies.”

CLM-005120 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“In at least one account of the Roswell Incident, a witness claimed he observed a 'creature' walk under its own power into the hospital.”

CLM-005121 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Fulgham's injury that caused his head to swell, resembling the classic science-fiction alien head, makes this account (and some others) that at first appeared to be the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible.”

CLM-005122 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The U.S. Army Air Forces secretly shipped the alien bodies with large heads to Wright-Patterson AFB for further processing and deep-freeze storage.”

CLM-005134 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“We were practicing touch and go landings when a severe gust of wind overturned the gondola, dumping all of us to the ground with the gondola on top of us.”

CLM-005135 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“We were followed during hours of darkness by a C-131 aircraft and during the day by a H-21 helicopter.”

CLM-005136 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Seeing the accident, the crews of the helicopter and the recovery trucks came to our assistance, much to the dismay of the farmer who owned the pony, which had run away when the truck broke down the fence to reach the crash site.”

CLM-005137 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Capt Fulgham sustained an injury to the forehead when the lip of the gondola struck him.”

CLM-005138 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Capt Kittinger was bleeding from a cut on the face.”

CLM-005139 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“I recall that a member of the helicopter crew attempted to calm the farmer.”

CLM-005140 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“We were taken to the nearest hospital, at Walker AFB, in Roswell.”

CLM-005141 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The military police escorted us to the hospital for treatment and to verify our story of the balloon crash.”

CLM-005142 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“While Capt Fulgham and Capt Kittinger were being treated I was asked to explain to the Walker AFB Base Commander what had happened.”

CLM-005143 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Capt Kittinger called Col Stapp from a phone adjacent to the waiting room were numerous military wives were waiting for pre-natal care.”

CLM-005144 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“We returned to Holloman AFB by helicopter about noon the same day.”

CLM-005145 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The balloons carrying the dummies were launched from various locations in New Mexico and often impacted off of the White Sands Proving Ground depending on the wind conditions.”

CLM-005146 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The dummies were outfitted with clothing and equipment of an Air Force pilot.”

CLM-005147 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Some of the dummies were not complete; they sometimes did not have arms or legs.”

CLM-005148 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“To someone not associated with the project or who viewed the dummies from a distance, they could appear to be human or with some imagination a space 'alien'.”

CLM-005149 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“We were particularly careful to recover the large plastic balloons because cattle would ingest the material and the ranchers would file claims against the government.”

CLM-005150 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Additionally, there were reward notices that offered twenty five dollars for the return of the equipment attached to each of the balloons.”

CLM-005163 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Project Stargazer was an astronomical observation project conducted by the USAF, Navy, and MIT from 1958 to 1963.”

CLM-005165 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“The Roswell Incident was a mysterious event that occurred in Roswell, NM in 1947.”

CLM-005182 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“And all of a sudden it just turned and looked right straight at me between my uncle Ted and myself.”

CLM-005183 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“And this is when — it was just like an explosion of things in my head, things... I started, you know, feeling, just terrible depression and loneliness and fear and just, you know, awful, awful feelings that just suddenly burst in to my mind there.”

CLM-005184 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“And they came from the north, from the Horse Springs area, right...”

CLM-005185 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“And they herded us up like cattle and we were just up the arroyo, back in the direction we came from, over the protest of this Dr. Buskirk who said, "No, no, we've got to go the other way. We came from over there."”

CLM-005186 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“They wouldn't let us out of the car. They wouldn't let us move forward.”

CLM-005187 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“When we got out to the highway, this place was absolutely full of military personnel, military equipment.”

CLM-005188 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“There was airplanes sitting out there that they had landed on the highway.”

CLM-005189 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“And how we didn't hear that land is beyond me and how he landed — well, of course, I guess you could land it if you're a good pilot out there as there were no poles or anything.”

CLM-005213 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“they got nearly up to the UFO but it was close enough that you could see some creatures. He said they didn't look like human beings out there.”

CLM-005214 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“He described them being about three and a half to four feet tall, very slim in stature, and with — there heads were hairless, with no eyebrows, no eyelashes, no hair.”

CLM-005218 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“They cleaned everything all up. I mean cleaned it. They raked the ground and everything* I mean they cleaned everything.”

CLM-005219 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Ragsdale mentioned that there was a storm the night of the crash.”

CLM-005220 · the roswell report 1997 case closed headquarters u Observation

“Venus 44”