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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. 13 …Fulgham, James Lovell, Hilary Ray, and Alan Bean. 30. Maj. Dan D. Fulgham at UbonAB, Thailand…
  • p. 126 …Shown with Fulgham (from left) are NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, NASA project engineer Hilary Ray, and…
  • p. 228 …104 Lovell, Jim 120 Luftwaffe 20 Lutz, Roland H. "Hap", SSgt., USAF 117. See also Signed…
Fig. 30. A veteran of 100
combat missions during the
Korean conflict, Fulgham flew
133 combat missions in F-4
aircraft (shown here) in 1966-
67 as a member of the 555th
"Triple Nickel" Tactical Fighter
Squadron at Ubon Air Base,
Thailand. (photo collection of
Dan D. Fulgham)
Fulgham recalled that upon his return to work at the Aero Medical
Laboratory he received reactions of "immediate compassionate sympathy"
from persons he encountered, including his secretary, who cried when she
saw him. 239 Within several weeks, Fulgham returned to flying status with
no permanent effects. Fulgham went on to complete a distinguished career
in the Air Force and retired as a colonel in 1978. Fulgham's assignments
included combat tours in fighter aircraft in both Korea and Vietnam, as well
as an assignment as an experimental parachutist and physiologist for the
space program.
Summary
In this section, documented research revealed that the reports of
"bodies" at the Roswell AAF hospital were grossly inaccurate and most
probably had origins in actual Air Force mishaps. Examinations of official
records of the alleged primary witnesses revealed that the "missing nurse"
was never missing, and the pediatrician did not arrive at the Walker AFB
hospital until 1951-four years after the alleged incident. The many
fundamental errors in the story, combined with the substantial similarities to
the actual mishaps, show that the most credible account associated with the
"Roswell Incident" is certainly not extraterrestrial and is unrelated to any
events that occurred in July 1947.
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