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Roswell Report: Case Closed
Executive Summary
In July
1994, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force concluded
an exhaustive search for records in response to a General
Accounting Office (GAO) inquiry of an event popularly known
as the "Roswell Incident." The focus of the GAO
probe, initiated at the request of a member of Congress,
was to determine if the U.S. Air Force, or any other U.S.
government agency, possessed information on the alleged
crash and recovery of an extraterrestrial vehicle and its
alien occupants near Roswell, N.M. in July 1947.
The
1994 Air Force report concluded that the predecessor to
the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Army Air Forces, recovered
debris from an Army Air Forces balloon-borne research project
code named MOGUL. Records located describing research carried
out under the MOGUL project, most of which were never classified
(and publicly available) were collected, provided to GAO,
and published in one volume for ease of access for the general
public.
This report
discusses the results of this exhaustive research and identifies
the likely sources of the claims of "alien bodies"
at Roswell. Contrary to allegations, many of the accounts
appear to be descriptions of unclassified and widely publicized
Air Force scientific achievements. Other descriptions of "bodies"
appear to be actual incidents in which Air Force members were
killed or injured in the line of duty.
The conclusions are:
Air
Force activities which occurred over a period of many years
have been consolidated and are now represented to have occurred
in two or three days in July 1947.
"Aliens"
observed in the New Mexico desert were actually anthropomorphic
test dummies that were carried aloft by U.S. Air Force high
altitude balloons for scientific research.
The
"unusual" military activities in the New Mexico
desert were high altitude research balloon launch and recovery
operations. Reports of military units that always seemed
to arrive shortly after the crash of a flying saucer to
retrieve the saucer and "crew," were actually
accurate descriptions of Air Force personnel engaged in
anthropomorphic dummy recovery operations.
Claims
of "alien bodies" at the Roswell Army Air Field
hospital were most likely a combination of two separate
incidents:
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) a 1956 KC-97 aircraft accident in which 11 Air Force
members lost their lives; and,
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) a 1959 manned balloon mishap in which two Air Force
pilots were injured.
This
report is based on thoroughly documented research supported
by official records, technical reports, film footage, photographs,
and interviews with individuals who were involved in these
events.
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Photos from the Report
Alderson Laboratories anthropomorphic dummies of the
type dropped from balloons.
The aeroshell of a NASA Voyager-Mars space probe just
prior to launch.
Following a supersonic test flight in 1972, a Viking
space probe awaits recovery at White Sands Missile
Range.
produced by the Air Force Web Information Service - June 24, 1997
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