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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 Headquarters United States Air Force report by Captain James McAndrew that follows up the 1994 Air Force report on the Roswell Incident. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from Project MOGUL balloons. It also says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. Claims of bodies at the Roswell hospital most likely combined a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 6 …1993), and appear courtesy of the Fund for UFO Research. The interview of Mr. W. Glenn…
  • p. 67 …Roswell Part II, by the The Fund for UFO Research (see Appendix C). ## Alice Knight ## "I…
  • p. 69 …of Roswell Part II by the Fund for UFO Research (see Appendix C) and Crash at…
  • p. 131 …The Fund for UFO Research, 1995), 2. 10. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report…
  • p. 138 …Fund for UFO Research, 1994), 167. 108. James Ragsdale, interview with Donald R. Schmitt, January 26…
  • p. 139 …Allen Hynek Center for UFO Studies and The Fund for UFO Research, June 1992), 2. 124…
  • p. 141 …Fund for UFO Research, 1994), 167. 166. Ragsdale. 167. Frank J. Kaufman, interview with Kevin Randle…
  • p. 143 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993) (hereafter Recollections of Roswell, Part II). 4. Recollections of Roswell, Part…
  • p. 156 …Fund for UFO Research, 1993). 194. Kittinger and Air Force Form 77, "USAF Officer Effectiveness Report…
  • p. 228 …Signed sworn statement in Appendix B Fund for UFO Research, The 58, 60, 186, 213, 215…
## Notes - Section One

45. ibid.

46. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 1, and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, 18.

47. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., The Long, Lonely Leap, (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961), and Lt. Col. David G. Simons, Man High, (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960), and Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., "The Long, Lonely Leap," National Geographic 118, no. 6 (December 1960): 854-873, "Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth," Life 49, no. 9 (August 29,1960): 20-25, Popular Mechanics Magazine, January 1951: 118, Collier's, June 25, 1954, Time, September 12, 1955, "The Fastest Man on Earth".

48. Don Reilly, "MAD Salutes an Unsung Hero," MAD, no. 61, (March 1961), 46.

49. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II.

50. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, 11-12.

51. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret) and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 16.

52. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 5.

53. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17.

54. ibid., and Memorandum, subj: Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67B-2133, box 65/249, file 2, "Biophysics Branch-Escape Section, High Altitude Escape Studies, 7218-71719," and Robert Blankenship, retired Balloon Branch Recovery Supervisor, telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, July 14, 1995.

55. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).

56. Blankenship, and Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., and Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States (hereafter Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States), AFCRL-66-706 (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, October 1966), 27.

57. Historical Branch, Office of Information Services, Air Force Missile Development Center, Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman AFB, N. Mex. 1947-1958 (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development Command, 1958) (hereafter Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1947-1958), 90.

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