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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. 75. "It's uniform was
tom in a couple spots ...their
uniforms were in pretty sad
shape"-witnesses description
of secondhand flightsuits that
were used repeatedly on tests;
tears and other damage were
common. In this photo, 1st Lt.
Raymond A. Madson "rigs" a
dummy to its suspension rack
for project HIGH DIVE at
HollomanAFB, N.M.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Fig. 76. A witness described
at least one person at a
"crash" site wearing a pith
helmet. In the 1950s, the pith
helmet was part of the Air
Force uniform and was often
worn on balloon launches and
recoveries. In this publicity
photo from On the Threshold
of Space, Air Force members
at Holloman AFB who were
extras in the film can be seen
wearing pith helmets. (also
see figure 49)
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