The Roswell Report : Case Closed [Paperback]

James McAndrew (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1997 | ISBN-10: 0160490189 | ISBN-13: 978-0160490187 | Edition: Book & VHS

Originally published by the United States Force in 1997.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 231 pages
• Publisher: United States Government Printing; Book & VHS edition (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0160490189
• ISBN-13: 978-0160490187
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,018,460 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Forget the UFOs! This is a great story!, July 16, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: The Roswell Report : Case Closed (Paperback)

A lot of folks will order this book to argue with the USAF's final say on the so-called Roswell UFO Crash, but it's so much more than a "no such things as UFOs" book. McAndrew touches on a number of government projects and people who should be remembered: John Strapp, who rode a rocket sled to 632 MPH; and Joseph Kittinger who still hold the record for the highest parachute jump (102,800 feet). Space program? These men did impossibly brave things when we were still wondering if rockets would work. If you want to read about the real beginning of the space program, check this book out!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad for a government publication, September 4, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: The Roswell Report: Case Solved (Paperback)

Great pictures! Good arguments, maybe? I hope the Government Printing Office breaks even on this one

5.0 out of 5 stars THE AIR FORCE'S CONCLUSIONS ABOUT THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT", January 11, 2010

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This review is from: The Roswell Report : Case Closed (Paperback)

The Roswell Army Air Field issued a press release on July 8, 1947, that was carried in the LOCAL newspaper under the headline, "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch in Roswell Region." Coming only two weeks after Kenneth Arnold's famous "flying saucers" sighting, this local story was big news, and the story made the national and international press. But by the next day, the military ordered Major Jesse Marcel----the base's intelligence officer, and the one who had investigated the reported incident at Mac Brazel's ranch and packed the remaining debris from the crash into the trunk of his Buick to take back to the top brass----to be photographed holding up some remains from a common weather balloon, and claim that this was what he had seen ... which it definitely wasn't. This, the "Roswell Cover-up" story began.

After nearly twenty years of increasingly shrill cries of "cover up!", the Air Force has finally published this detailed account, giving their "official" side of the story.

This 1997 report concludes that the "crashed saucer" was actually a secret Project MOGUL spy balloon train. It also concludes that the purported "alien bodies sightings" only became part of the Roswell Incident after 1978, "when they were erroneously linked to the July 1947 retrieval of Project MOGUL's components." The "bodies" seen by witnesses were actually dummies, dropped from high altitude test balloons in the 1950s (where the witnesses confused the dates, when interviewed years later by ufologists).

Of course, there have been more extensive critiques of the Roswell "witnesses" in more recent books (such as The Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup, and The Roswell UFO Crash: What They Don't Want You to Know); but the Air Force's own report, with extensive appendices, interviews, and photographs, is definitely MUST reading for anyone interested in Roswell.