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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 …Fiction In The New Mexico Desert. 2. The International UFO Museum and Research Center, Roswell, N…
  • p. 20 …Since the 1940s, White Sands and the surrounding areas of New Mexico have been the site…
  • p. 21 …1992 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan soliciting witnesses of flying saucer crashes in New Mexico. When…
  • p. 131 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), 20…
  • p. 189 …We drove down to the Plains of San Agustin which is west of Socorro, New Mexico…
  • p. 230 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert 2 rubber 5, 8 Ruidoso, N.M. 124 s SAC…
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ATrn'r Mr. R.L. Maeon
toss of MR Equipment
'iCllDB-4 19 J"an 56
Lt. Nielsen/lbc
Ext. 2-4194/B.J3
1. On 17 November 1955, en anthropo!!Orphic dlllllley'o B-15 jacket and a stop watch
were lost during a hi&~ altitude dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Forcs Base,
New 1-B:cico,
2. The drop was performed to determine the affectiTeness of a two stc.ge
personnel parechute ill lowering a =·like dllllley from 85\000 feet. The test was part
of a continuing task •High Altitude Escape Studiaa•, 7218-71719. The point at which
the dUOJllllY reached the ground vas not lalovn to the recovery crews at the time and an ex-
tensive search lasting through the firat week of DeceMber 1955 failed to discoTer the
lC>st items.
3· !.ost ores
a, l ea., dllllllcy', anthropomorphic, Sierre Ecgineering Co. model 120, stock
no. 3500-NL-30010,
b. 1 ea,, jacket, B-l-5, spec. ,3220, abe 36, stock no. 8415-269-0512,
c. 1 ea., stop watch, Fisher Scientific eo. P/N 14-646, stock no, BT,\A
9854.5.
4, Because of the loss of these i tams as a result ot a test, 1 t is requested
that Lt. Henry F. Nielsen be relieved of tha responaibilit7 for these items,
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Figs. 36-38. Actual
photographs of an Alderson
Laboratories type
anthropomorphic dummy
falling away from its
suspension rack at high
altitude over New Mexico.
Fig. 37 (center) appears on
the cover of this publication.
(U.S. Air Force photos)
Fig. 39. Memo taken from
Project HIGH DIVE files
explaining the loss of a
dummy near Roswell, N.M.
in November 1955.

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