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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…
something similar to those words. She said the only way you can contact me is through this APO number, and there was an APO number. It was a New York APO number.

Q: So she'd gone to Europe or some place.

A: Then right on the bottom she says, "I'm in London." That was it. I wrote a note, just a note, that said if you feel like it and you get time, then I would love to know and we'll correspond. Mine came back. That was about three or four weeks later. Mine came back.

Q: That was the one that was marked deceased?

A: Yes. It said return to sender, [addressee] deceased.

Q: Then what did you do?

A: (inaudible)

Q: You didn't try to follow up or see if there was any possible...

A No. I asked (inaudible), at the time we called her Slatts

Wilson, a big tall nurse, 6'2", 6'3", big tall skinny girl. We called her Slatts. Everybody called her Slatts. She's the one that told me she'd heard that there was a plane crash and she was the nurse that went down on a training mission. She said that's strictly rumor, I don't know anything about it. That's what I...

Q: No one's been able to turn that one up at all.

A: I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no one believes this damn story. Nobody believes this story.

Q: I don't know if that's true.

A: Anyway, it was a hell of a story. I told (inaudible). I said I told the woman, I don't want to give you her name, because I told the lady I'd give a sacred oath and I didn't want to get involved. Well, it's been 45 years, almost 40 years, and I haven't heard anything. He said I will do it confidentially and nobody else will have this name. Well, that's where he broke his promise after that. I got all over him about it. I called him and I was madder than hell. He said well, Bob Shirkey was the one that told everybody, that he was sitting in the back of us. Bob brought Stan [Friedman] up there when he interviewed me. He said, Bob Shirkey was the one that let out her name. To this day, Stan Friedman (inaudible) still says he did not put her name out. I've been on several shows, not several, but two or three interviews, and I'm not going to mention her name. If somebody says is this her name? I'm not going to say it is or it isn't. I told Stan... I was madder than hell about it, because I did give my word.

Q: There's another side to that, too, from the standpoint of those who are trying to get some answers. By not having her name around, it makes it easier to cross-check the stories that you get from

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