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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…
Fig. 40. Air Force personnel
used stretchers and gurneys to
pick up 200-pound dummies
in the field and to move them
in the laboratory.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
What may have contributed to a misunderstanding if the
dummies were viewed by persons unfamiliar with their intended
use, were the methods used by Holloman AFB personnel to transport
them. The dummies were sometimes transported to and from off-
range locations in wooden shipping containers, similar to caskets,
to prevent damage to fragile instruments mounted in and on the
dummy. 65 Also, canvas military stretchers and hospital gurneys were
used (a procedure recommended by a dummy manufacturer) to move
the dummies in the laboratory or retrieve dummies in the field after
a test. 66 The first 10 dummy drops also utilized black or silver
insulation bags, similar to "body bags" in which the dummies were
placed for flight to guard against equipment failure at low ambient
temperatures of the upper atmosphere. 67
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