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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.

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“Holloman Air Force Base”16 pages

  • p. 21 …When former Air Force scientists responded to advise the authors that Air Force projects were most…
  • p. 36 …one of our project's two doctors, from ground control at Holloman Air Force Base: "Three…
  • p. 44 …dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. 2. The drop was…
  • p. 48 …length motion picture based on Air Force aero medical projects conducted at Holloman AFB, N.M…
  • p. 51 …Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. 1947-1958, a suspected Holloman…
  • p. 56 …New Mexico by the Holloman Balloon Branch. Today, the Air Force maintains a reduced but still…
  • p. 57 balloon launch facility at Holloman AFB, U.S. Air Force balloon crews have recently launched balloons…
  • p. 124 …Also, based on his experience with project STARGAZER, Hynek was familiar with balloon operations at Holloman…
  • p. 126 …Army Air Forces secretly shipped the alien bodies with large heads to Wright-Patterson AFB for…
  • p. 154 …Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman Air Force Base, N. Mex. 1947-1958…
  • p. 166 …Air Force in 1957 as a flight surgeon and was assigned to Walker AFB, NM, in…
  • p. 168 …Air Force in 1952 as an aviation cadet. I flew F-84s on 100 combat missions…
  • p. 170 …Following graduation I was hired by the Air Force at Holloman AFB and worked continuously as…
  • p. 174 …the old hangers of the former Air Force base. This project was not classified and was…
  • p. 178 …Air Force in 1949 as an Aviation Cadet. From 1950 to 1953 I flew fighters in…
  • p. 180 …I was also involved in the joint Air Force, Navy, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology astronomical…
## Notes - Section One

76. ibid.

77. Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 73.

78. "Flight Summary, Non-Extensible Balloon Operations, 6580th Test Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," 22-24.

79. Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 73-74.

80. Lt. Col. David G. Simons (MC), Stratosphere Balloon Techniques for Exposing Living Specimens to Primary Cosmic Ray Particles, Holloman Air Development Center TR 54-16, November 1954, 10-11.

81. "Flight Summary Non-Extensible Balloon Operations 6580th Test Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," 1-31, and Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 24.

82. "Flight Summary Non-Extensible Balloon Operations 6580th Test Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," 4.

83. Research Division, College of Engineering, New York University, Technical Report No. 93.02, Constant Level Balloons, Section 3, Summary of Flights, July 15, 1949, 32, in Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Appendix 12.

84. Holloman Air Development Center, "Test Report on Radar Target Balloons", October 31, 1955, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, AFB, AL, Reel # 31811, Frame 1139, and Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 40-45.

85. Kevin C. Ruffner, ed., Corona: America's First Satellite Program (Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central Intelligence Agency, 1995), 22.

86. ibid.,21-22.

87. Air Force Missile Development Center, "Chronology of Events," Sept. 1, 1957-Aug 10, 1962, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, AFB, AL, Reel # 31731, Frame 561, and Flight Records of Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch, October 12, 1956 - March 14, 1961.

88. Flight Summary, DISCOVERER Balloon Flights, March 31, 1960 April 22, 1960, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, AFB, AL, Reel# 31811, frame 569.

89. ibid.

90. ibid.

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