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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. 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 Two
169. Air Force Missile Development Center, Man-High I,
MDC-TR-59-24, 1959.
170. Schedule Request- Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight,"
May 19, 20, 22, 1959, Accession No. 342-65B-3185, Box 4/22,
National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel
Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
171. ibid.
172. Ole Jorgeson, MSgt., USAF, (Ret), interview with
1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 28, 1995.
173. Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request-
Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight," May 19, 1959, Accession
No. 342-65B-3185, Box 4/22, National Archives and Records
Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
174. Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request-
Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight," May 20, 1959, Accession
No. 342-65B-3185, Box 4/22.
175. ibid.
176. ibid.
177. ibid., and Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., Col., USAF (Ret), interview with
1st Lt. James McAndrew, June 23, 1995.
178. Kittinger
179. ibid.
180. ibid.
181. Dan D. Fulgham, Col., USAF, (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James
McAndrew, May 26, 1995.
182. ibid. and Standard Form 539, "Abbreviated Clinical Record,"
May 21,1959, Personnel Record of Col. Dan D. Fulgham, National
Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records
Center, St. Louis, Mo.
183. ibid.
184. Jorgeson and Roland H. Lutz, CMSgt., USAF (Ret), interview with
1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 31, 1995.
185. ibid.
186. Fulgham and William C. Kaufman, Lt. Col., USAF, (Ret), interview
with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 24, 1995.
187. ibid.
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