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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. 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…
Notes - Section One
76. ibid.
77. Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 73.
78. "Flight Summary, Non-Extensible Balloon Operations, 6580th Test
Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," 22-24.
79. Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 73-74.
80. Lt. Col. David G. Simons (MC), Stratosphere Balloon Techniques for
Exposing Living Specimens to Primary Cosmic Ray Particles, Holloman
Air Development Center TR 54-16, November 1954, 10-11.
81. "Flight Summary Non-Extensible Balloon Operations 6580th Test
Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," 1-31, and
Contributions of Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 24.
82. "Flight Summary Non-Extensible Balloon Operations 6580th Test
Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," 4.
83. Research Division, College of Engineering, New York University,
Technical Report No. 93.02, Constant Level Balloons, Section 3, Summary
of Flights, July 15, 1949, 32, in Headquarters United States Air Force, The
Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington,
D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Appendix 12.
84. Holloman Air Development Center, "Test Report on Radar Target
Balloons", October 31, 1955, Air Force Historical Research Agency,
Maxwell, AFB, AL, Reel# 31811, Frame 1139, and Contributions of
Balloon Operations 1947-1958, 40-45.
85. Kevin C. Ruffner, ed., Corona: America's First Satellite Program
(Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study of Intelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency, 1995), 22.
86. ibid., 21-22.
87. Air Force Missile Development Center, "Chronology of Events,"
Sept. 1, 1957- Aug 10, 1962, Air Force Historical Research Agency,
Maxwell, AFB, AL, Reel # 31731, Frame 561, and Flight Records of
Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch,
October 12, 1956- March 14, 1961.
88. Flight Summary, DrscovERER Balloon Flights, March 31, 1960-
April22, 1960, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell, AFB,
AL, Reel# 31811, frame 569.
89. ibid.
90. ibid.
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