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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. 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…
business, and he said Joe found my files. He said I know he went through everything you had.

He and I had a partnership in a business, and I put up all the money and it went sour and so we had problems.

Q: You and Stan Friedman actually made an effort to try and find that, didn't you?

A: We went down there. The old file was right where I said it was, it was still there. But it was, Stan will tell you, we went down in this old basement, and I knew exactly... See, I kept files on every case that I was involved in, murders, anything that I went to court on, that I was a witness on, I kept all that. I called those my personal files. If I ever had to go back with the insurance companies or anything, I had it all right there. That's why I had those.

Q: You found the filing cabinet but there was nothing in it?

A: No. We went through it. There wasn't a thing in it. Stan and I both.

Q: They'd stripped it out, or was there other stuff in there...

A: There wasn't anything in there.

Q: After all of that excitement, then what? Did it just kind of evaporate?

A: It just kind of evaporated. Then of course two or three days later, I was concerned about her because she was sick. I took her back to the nurse's quarters and let her out. I called back the next day and they said she wasn't on duty, and I called the next day and they said she wasn't on duty. Then I went out there, for some reason, I don't recall. I went out there and I asked about the lieutenant, and they said she'd been transferred out. They said, "She was transferred out yesterday." Well, that was the day after I saw her. They got her out the next day.

Q: Who told you she'd been transferred out?

A: I don't know. Some nurses...

Q: It wasn't anybody that you remember?

A: No.

Q: Did they tell you where she'd been shipped to?

A: They didn't know. They said she had been transferred, and that's all they knew.

Q: But then you heard from her subsequently.

A: About three or four weeks later. I got a card addressed to Ballard Funeral Home. It was from her, and inside it just said, just a short note, she said we will correspond later to see what happened to each other,

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