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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…
-- . Major Achievements in Biodynamics:
Escape Physiology at the Air Force Missile
Development Center, Holloman AFB,
New Mexico, 1953-1958, 1958.
-- . Origin and Operation of the First
Holloman Track, 1949-1956, 1956.
-- . Research Accomplishments in Biodynamics:
Deceleration and Impact at the Air Force
Missile Development Center, Holloman AFB,
New Mexico, 1955-1958, 1958.
-- . The Aeromedical Field Laboratory: Mission,
Organization, and Track Test Programs,
1958-1960, 1960.
-- . The Beginnings of Research in Space Biology
at the Air Force Missile Development Center,
HollomanAFB, New Mexico, 1946-1952, 1958.
Cobb, D. B. and Waters, M.H.L. Royal Aircraft
Establishment Famborough. The Behavior
of Dummy Men During Long Free Falls,
Mechanical Engineering Note 179, 1954.
Firestone, James R. and Patterson, Jack H.
Recovery of Parachute-Borne Packages
by Helicopter, TDR 62-6, 1962.
Flight Summary, Non-Extensible Balloon
Operations, 6580th Test Squadron (Special),
June 1950 to October 1954.
Gildenberg, Bernard G. "General Philosophy and
Techniques of Balloon Control", in Lewis A.
Grass, ed., Proceedings, Sixth AFCRL Scientific
Balloon Symposium, AFCRL-70-0543, 1970.
-- . Capacity and Fatigue Tests on Three Mil
Polyethylene Balloons, HADC TN-55-4, 1955.
-- . Crane Launch Techniques for Polyethylene
Balloons, HADC TN 57-3, 1957.
-- . Development of Shroud Inflation Techniques
for Plastic Balloons, HADC TN-54-4, 1954.
-- . Investigation of Inflation Techniques for
Nonextensible Balloons, HADC TN 54-7, 1954.
--. Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level
Balloon Operations in the Southwestern
United States, AFCRL-66-706, 1966.
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