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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. 6 …For additional information on this subject, see Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact…
  • p. 87 …The two mysterious doctors at the hospital were sent to Roswell AAF from a higher headquarters…
  • p. 121 …SAC units, was unannounced "surprise" visits of Headquarters SAC inspection teams. A favored method of transportation…
  • p. 131 Notes - Section One 1. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in…
  • p. 133 …Daler, Headquarters Air Materiel Command, subject: Proposal, Purchase Request No. 301200, September 16, 1954, National Archives…
  • p. 136 …93.02, Constant Level Balloons, Section 3, Summary of Flights, July 15, 1949, 32, in Headquarters…
  • p. 144 …New York: Paragon House, 1992), 119. 39. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact…
  • p. 148 …Schick, Investigating Officer, Headquarters, USAF, subj: Investigation of B-29 Crash, 18 August 1948, Aircraft Accident…
  • p. 150 …Air Force Form 14, "Report of Air Force Aircraft Accident," June 26, 1956, Headquarters Air Force…
  • p. 152 …in AF Aircraft Accident," June 26, 1956, Headquarters Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland AFB, N.M…
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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