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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 Two

207. 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., and Memo: Maj. Lawrence M. Bogard, Chief, Balloon Branch, to MDWXB, subj: Project 7222, 8 May 1959.

208. ibid., and Jorgeson.

209. Jorgeson.

210. ibid.

211. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.

212. ibid.

213. ibid.

214. Karl T. Pflock, "Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence," Omni, Fall 1995, 103.

215. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.

216. Jorgeson.

217. Unit History, 47th Air Division, June 1954, photo section, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.

218. Unit History, 6th Bomb Wing, June 1959, Annex "N," "Base Support Plan, Medical," June 1, 1959.

219. Charles A. Ravenstein, Air Force Combat Wings; Lineage and Honors Histories, 1947-1977 (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), 16.

220. Kaufman.

221. ibid.

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

223. Fulgham.

224. Kittinger.

225. ibid.

226. ibid.

227. ibid., and ltr., Dr. J. Allen Hynek, Director, Dearborn Observatory, Northwestern University, to Maj. Hector Quintanilla, Chief Aerial Phenomena Branch, December 6, 1965, National Air Intelligence Center historical files, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

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