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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…
Notes - Section One
141. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
142. ibid.
143. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).
144. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
145. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 22.
146. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
147. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 9, and High Altitude
Balloon Dummy Drops, Part II, 8.
148. Berliner and Friedman, 91.
149. ibid., 92-94.
150. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
151. ibid.
15 2. Memorandum, subject: Balloon Tracking and Recovecy Equipment, n.d., National
Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St.
Louis, Mo., Accession No. 342-67B-2133, box 65/249, file 2, ''Biophysics Branch-
Escape Section, High Altitude Escape Studies, 7218-71719;' and High Altitude
Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17, and 'Weekly Test Status Report on Project
7218, Manned Balloon Flights, (MX-145GB)", for Week Ending 28 February
1955, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel
Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., Accession No. 342-66A-181, Box 14/18.
153. Kittinger and Historical Branch, Office of Information Services,
Air Research and Development Command, History of Flight Support
Holloman Air Development Center 1946-1957 (Holloman AFB, N.M.:
Holloman Air Development Center, 1957), 101.
154. Blankenship.
155. Berliner and Friedman, 106.
156. Bernard D. Gildenberg, Techniques Developed for Heavy Load Non-
Extensible Balloon Flights, Report No. HADC-TN-54-3 (Holloman
AFB, NM: Holloman Air Development Center, March 1954), 7.
157. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
158. Blankenship and Ole Jorgeson, MSgt., USAF, (Ret), Balloon Branch
Communications Supervisor, interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew,
May 28, 1995.
159. ibid.
160. Berliner and Friedman, 107.
161. ibid.
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