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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. 10 …Announcement from November 4, 1992 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan. 9. B.D. "Duke" Gildenberg. 10…
  • p. 18 …For example, one such solicitation appeared in the Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan on November 4…
  • p. 20 …supposed crashes of alien spacecraft in the Socorro area. 8* In response to the newspaper announcement…
  • p. 21 …Announcement from the November 4, 1992 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan soliciting witnesses of flying saucer…
  • p. 131 …Daily Record, July 9, 1947, 1. 8. Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan, November 4, 1992. 9…
  • p. 189 …We drove down to the Plains of San Agustin which is west of Socorro, New Mexico…
  • p. 198 …of here now and you go to Socorro," and this is the redhead again, "Keep you…
  • p. 230 …of Automotive Engineers 32 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan 6, 9 Socorro, N.M. 8 Sonic…
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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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