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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

US Air Force · 1997 · 234 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to 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 pmjed's twu dodorB, from ground control at Holloman Air Fon;e Base…
  • p. 44 …dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Forcs Base, New 1-B:cico, 2. The…
  • 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. 53 …Air Force high altitude balloons at Holloman AFB were determined to be the most expedient method…
  • p. 56 …New Mexico by the Holloman Balloon Branch. Today, the Air Force maintains a reduced but still…
  • p. 57 …Air Force photo) balloon launch facility at Holloman AFB, U.S. Air Force balloon crews have…
  • 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 \Vorked continuously as…
  • p. 174 …NASA personnd prepared the spacecraft for launch from the old hangers ofthe tcHmer Air Force base…
  • p. 178 …Air Force in 1949 :.ts an ihiation C<ldct. From 1950 to 1953 1 flew fighters…
  • p. 180 …I was also involved in the joint Air Force, Navy, and l'vlassachm;etts Institute of…
2.2
Aircraft Accidents
The examination of events that involved the Walker AFB
hospital that may explain reports of bodies was begun by reviewing the
most prominent possible source, which were aircraft accident(s).* A
review of aircraft accidents from 194 7 to 1960 revealed eight fatal
accidents that involved Walker AFB.
Table 2.2
Fatal Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB
1947-1960
Year Aircraft Location of Accident Number of
Type (distance from Walker AFB, N.M.) Fatalities
1947
None
1948
8/12/48 B-29 4 miles South 13
1949
5/16/49 C-47 6 miles Northeast 6
12/15/49 B-29 2 miles Northwest 7
1950
6/1/50 KB-29 12 miles East/Southeast 3
1951
None
1952
None
1953
None
1954
None
1955
6/16/55 T-33 On runway 2
10/3/55 B-47 34 miles West 2
1956
6/26/56 KC-97 8.8 miles South 11
1957
None
1958
None
1959
None
1960
2/3/60 KC-135 On runway and ramp 13
The following three basic criteria were used to narrow research
efforts to specific accidents for more detailed examinations: were the victims
burned, resulting in possible descriptions of "black" "little bodies"?; were
the victims transported to the Walker AFB hospital?; and, were the victims
' Other possible explanations such as automobile accidents, house fires, etc., were also
examined. However, none of these were determined to be responsible for this account of bodies.
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