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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…
Notes - Section One
91. Kevin C. Ruffner, ed., Corona: America's First Satellite Program
(Washington, D.C.: Center for the Study oflntelligence, Central
Intelligence Agency, 1995), 21-22.
92. ibid.
93. ibid.
94. Martin Marietta Corporation, "Viking '75, Balloon Launched Decelerator
Test Program Post Flight Report, BLDT Vehicle AV-3;' TR 3720293, 1972,
IV-I and Edward J. Kirschner, Aerospace Balloons; From Montgol.fiere
to Space (Blue Ridge Summit, Pa.: Aero Publishers, 1985), 64-66.
95. Martin Marietta Corporation, "Viking '75, Balloon Launched
Decelerator Test Program Post Flight Report, BLDT Vehicle AV-3,"
TR 3720293, 1972, IV-I.
96. Kevin D. Randle and Donald R. Schmitt, The Truth About the UFO
Crash at Roswell (New York: Avon Books, 1994), photograph section.
97. Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, "Report on Research, for the
Period July 1965- June 1967", AFCRL TR-68-0039, November 1967, 150-151.
98. Gildenberg.
99. Database of high altitude balloon operations on file at SAF/AAZD
compiled from the following sources: Research Division, College of
Engineering, New York University, Technical Report No. 93.02,
Constant Level Balloons, Section 3, Summary of Flights, July 15, 1949;
"Flight Summary Non-Extensible Balloon Operations 6580th Test
Squadron (Special), June 1950 to October 1954," National Archives and
Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis,
Mo., Accession No. 342-62A-181, box 14118; Flight Records of
Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch.,
October 12, 1956- March 14, 1961; "Summary of Balloon Flights
Launched from Holloman AFB, N.M., 1962 thru 1987", Space and
Missile Command, Test and Evaluation Unit (SMC/TE, OL-AC) files,
Holloman AFB, N.M. Additional flight data on file (microfilm), U.S. Air
Force Phillips Laboratory, Geophysics Directorate, Hanscom AFB, Mass.
100. Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level
Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States, AFCRL-66-706
(L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force Cambridge Research
Laboratories, October 1966), and Bernard D. Gildenberg, General
Philosophy and Techniques of Balloon Control, in Lewis A. Grass, ed.,
Proceedings, Sixth AFCRL Scientific Balloon Symposium,
AFCRL-70-0543, (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Mass.: Air Force
Cambridge Research Laboratories, October 1970).
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