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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. 58 …to claim this honor.“h The DISCOVERERprogram had been plagued by failure with IO unsuccessful missions…
  • p. 110 …on board, while on a refueling training mission, experienced a propeller failure four and one half…
  • p. 121 The three pilots, Kittinger, Kaufman and Fulgham, flew training missions together. Kaufman and Fulgham alternately flew…
  • p. 139 …Nenninger who died of injuries received in an aircraft crash during a balloon recovery mission on…
  • p. 182 …dcpendiig on the mission. a crane. weapons carriers. communications van, and occasionally tat&r trucks to…
  • p. 237 …Ciildenberg, Bernard G. “General Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control”, in Lewis A. Grass, ed., Proceedings…
Fig. 31. Plaque placed at
Holloman AFB honoring three
Balloon Branch members
killed during a high altitude
balloon recovery when their
L-20 balloon chase plane
crashed in the rugged Gila
Mountains near Stafford, Arir.
(U.S. Air Force />hotoJ
Fig. 32. (bfi) The balloon
launch facility at Holloman
AFB, N.M. was named in
honor of Maj. Richard L.
Nenninger who died of
injuries received in an aircraft
crash during a balloon
recovery mission on April 7,
1970 in the Sacramento
Mountains near Ruidoso. N.M.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Fig. 33. (Right) A semi-
conscious Capt. Joseph W.
Kittinger, Jr., following the
Exc~~smn 1 parachute jump
from 76,000 feet. With his
parachute wrapped around
his neck and body and
hopelessly out of control,
his life was saved by an
ingeniously designed
reserve parachute system
that opened just moments
before contacting the desert
floor; White Sands Proving
Ground, November 16, 1959.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
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