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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.

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  • p. 20 …t he might have found a smoky gray In color and scattered !ly!ng disk. over…
  • p. 26 …a shiny silverish-gray color" 19 and by Maltais as "one-piece and gray in color…
  • p. 38 …This equipment consisted of a one-piece flightsuit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens…
  • p. 39 …This dummy is outfitted in a "sage green" colored flightsuit (a shade of gray) with red…
  • p. 64 …fingers, were bald and wore one-piece gray suits. e. An activity that required recovery by…
  • p. 68 …of the beings was "one-piece and gray in color" 121 The witness concluded that ''As…
  • p. 70 …a shiny silverish-gray color," "trimmed in ...maroon-like cording" 142 is a likely reference 61
  • p. 71 to a standard issue, gray, Air Force flightsuit used to outfit the dummies and red duct…
  • p. 79 …a shiny silverish gray color" 184 Anderson 20. "Their clothing seemed to be one piece and…
  • p. 191 …It was sort of a real shiny silverish gray color. Q: No zippers, buttons? A: No…
  • p. 195 …His hair was kind of light gray. And he walked over there and they got to…
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 Aircraft Fatalities
Accident Type
Burned? Taken to WAFS Autopsied?
Hospital?
8112/48 B-29 Yes96 No97 No9s
5116/49 C-47 Yes 99 Noioo NoiDI
12/15/49 B-29 No1o2 Yesio3 Yesio4
6/1/50 KB-29 Noios Now6 Now7
6/16/55 T-33 Yes 108 No1o9 Yesiio
10/3/55 B-47 Yes III Noii2 Noii3
6/'1,6/56•.•· KC:~97 .Yes115 Y:esit6··
2/3/60 KC-135 Yesii7 No us Noii9
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-970 aircraft.
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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)

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