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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. 53 …86 The Drs covERER program had been plagued by failure with 10 unsuccessful missions in 1959…
  • p. 102 …121 A KC-97G aircraft with 11 crewmen on board, while on a refueling training mission…
  • p. 113 The three pilots, Kittinger, Kaufman and Fulgham, flew training missions together. Kaufman and Fulgham alternately flew…
  • p. 129 …Nenninger who died of injuries received in an aircraft crash during a balloon recovery mission on…
  • p. 171 …depending on the mission, a crane, weapons carriers, communications van, and occasionally tanker tmcks to refuel…
  • p. 173 …I recall an overnight balloon training mission that was conducted in .!\1ay, 1959. Capl Joe Kittinger…
  • p. 223 …Gildenberg, Bernard G. "General Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control", in Lewis A. Grass, ed., Proceedings…
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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, Ariz.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Fig. 32. (Left) 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
ExcELSIOR I 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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