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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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“Mission Control”7 pages

  • p. 53 …been plagued by failure with 10 unsuccessful missions in 1959 and 1960. With the eyes of…
  • p. 102 …on board, while on a refueling training mission, experienced a propeller failure four and one half…
  • p. 113 The three pilots, Kittinger, Kaufman and Fulgham, flew training missions together. Kaufman and Fulgham alternately flew…
  • p. 129 …Nenninger who died of injuries received in an aircraft crash during a balloon recovery mission on…
  • p. 171 …The recovery vehicles included, depending on the mission, a crane, weapons carriers, communications van, and occasionally…
  • p. 173 …I recall an overnight balloon training mission that was conducted in May, 1959. Capt Joe Kittinger…
  • p. 223 …ADA 323108 Gildenberg, Bernard G. "General Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control", in Lewis A. Grass…

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## Notes - Section Two

169. Air Force Missile Development Center, Man-High I, MDC-TR-59-24, 1959.

170. Schedule Request- Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight," May 19, 20, 22, 1959, Accession No. 342-65B-3185, Box 4/22 National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.

171. ibid.

172. Ole Jorgeson, MSgt., USAF, (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 28, 1995.

173. Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request-Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight," May 19, 1959, Accession No. 342-65B-3185, Box 4/22, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.

174. Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request-Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight," May 20, 1959, Accession No. 342-65B-3185, Box 4/22.

175. ibid.

176. ibid.

177. ibid., and Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., Col., USAF (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, June 23, 1995.

178. Kittinger

179. ibid.

180. ibid.

181. Dan D. Fulgham, Col., USAF, (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 26, 1995.

182. ibid. and Standard Form 539, "Abbreviated Clinical Record," May 21,1959, Personnel Record of Col. Dan D. Fulgham, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.

183. ibid.

184. Jorgeson and Roland H. Lutz, CMSgt., USAF (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 31, 1995.

185. ibid.

186. Fulgham and William C. Kaufman, Lt. Col., USAF, (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 24, 1995.

187. ibid.

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