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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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autopsied? To facilitate this examination, researchers reviewed official accident reports, organizational and base histories, individual personnel records of victims, and contemporary newspaper accounts of the accidents. Interviews of persons who participated in the aftermath of these accidents were also conducted. As a result, only one accident met the three criteria, the June 1956 KC-97 accident.
Table 2.3
Analysis of Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB 1947-1960
Date of Accident Aircraft Type Fatalities
Burned? Taken to WAFB Hospital? Autopsied?
8/12/48 B-29 Yes$^{96}$ No$^{97}$ No$^{98}$
5/16/49 C-47 Yes$^{99}$ No$^{100}$ No$^{101}$
12/15/49 B-29 No$^{102}$ Yes$^{103}$ Yes$^{104}$
6/1/50 KB-29 No$^{105}$ No$^{106}$ No$^{107}$
6/16/55 T-33 Yes$^{108}$ No$^{109}$ Yes$^{110}$
10/3/55 B-47 Yes$^{111}$ No$^{112}$ No$^{113}$
6/26/56 KC-97 Yes$^{114}$ Yes$^{115}$ Yes$^{116}$
2/3/60 KC-135 Yes$^{117}$ No$^{118}$ No$^{119}$
Upon detailed review of records of the 1956 accident and interviews with persons who participated in the recovery and identification of the victims, extensive similarities to the description the witness provided were apparent.
## Fatal KC-97 Aircraft Mishap
In 1956, Walker AFB, N.M. was the home of Strategic Air Command's 6th and 509th Bombardment Wings. $ ^{120} $ Additionally, Walker was home of the 509th Aerial Refueling Squadron (509th ARS) equipped with the KC-97G aircraft.
Fig. 7. A KC-97 similar this of the 509th Aerial Refueling Squadron crashed 8.8 miles south of Walker AFB on June 26, 1956 with the loss of 11 lives. Descriptions of the aftermath of this tragedy are believed to be the basis for some of the reports of "bodies" at the Walker AFB hospital. (U.S. Air Force photo) Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 232 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.