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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 12 …Fiction In The New Mexico Desert. 2. The lnternational UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, N…
  • p. 23 …White Sands and the surrounding areas of New Mexico hare been the site of a high…
  • p. 142 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 20…
  • p. 202 …We drove down to the Plains of San Agustin which is west of Socorro, New Mexico…
Fig. 24. Walker AFB
Building 317, hospital
dispensary with attached
ramp, as it appeared in June
1954. It is in this building
that UFO theorists allege
that “alien autopsies” were
accomplished in July 1947.
However, this was the same
building that Capt. Fulgham
received treatment
fallowing the balloon
accident on May 21, 1959.
Persons apparently observed
him and later related the
unusual circumstances
surrounding the balloon
mishap as part of the
“Roswell Incident.”
(U.S. Air Force photo)
security personnel.2x The security personnel escorted them to the hospital
and remained with them until their identities and purpose of their visit were
verified. Kaufman, one of the balloon pilots, recalled that their presence at
Walker AFB was initially met with skepticism.
“The [helicopter] pilot called the tower and said... having come
from an experimental base, it was nothing unusual for him to have a balloon
accident. ‘We’ve got an injured pilot on board. There’s been a balloon
accident and we would like the flight surgeon and an ambulance to meet us
at the tower.’ The tower established the fact that yes, we were an Air Force
chopper and that we seemed to have somebody injured and what had we
been doing? We had been shooting touch and go landings in a balloon?...We
got clearance to land...right in front of the tower, and we were met by an
ambulance and several MPs with machine guns.“**’
Fig. 25. Main gate at Walker
AFB, N.M., formerly Rowe11
AAF, as it appeared in 1954.
During the 195Os, the highly,
secure base was the home of
the nuclear capable 509th and
6th Bombardment Wings of
Strategic Air Command.
(US. Air Force phoro)
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