RoswellReportCaseClosed.pdf

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The Roswell Report 
Headquarters United States Air Force 

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McAndrew, James, 1963-
The Roswell report : case closed I James McAndrew 
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Includes index. 
1. Unidentified flying objects-Sightings and encounters-New 
Mexico-Roswell. I. Title 
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Foreword 
The "Roswell Incident" has assumed a central place in American 
folklore since the events of the 1940s in a remote area of New Mexico. 
Because the Air Force was a major player in those events, we have played a 
key role in executing the General Accounting Office's tasking to uncover all 
records regarding that incident. 
Our objective throughout this inquiry has been simple and 
consistent: to find all the facts and bring them to light. If documents were 
classified, declassify them; where they were dispersed, bring them into a 
single source for public review. 
In July 1994, we com…

Guide For Readers 
This publication contains the complete report as submitted to 
the Secretary of the Air Force. The exceptions are the statements found in 
Appendix B. Due to Privacy Act restrictions and by request, the addresses 
of the individuals making these statements have been deleted. 
This volume is divided into two sections, eight subsections, 
eleven sidebar discussions, and three appendices. Section One examines 
alleged events at two locations in rural New Mexico. Section Two 
examines the alleged activities at the Roswell Army Airfield Hospital. 
Appendix A is a table listing th…

The Author 
CAPTAIN JAMES McANDREW serves as an Intelligence 
Applications Officer assigned to the Secretary of the Air Force 
Declassification and Review Team, The Pentagon, Washington, D.C .. 
Captain McAndrew was the coauthor, with Col. Richard L. Weaver, 
of The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert 
(1995), the first Air Force work on the alleged "Roswell Incident." He 
participated in the declassification of the Gulf War Air Power Survey 
(1993) and has served special tours of duty with the Drug Enforcement 
Administration and High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (HID…

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