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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. 21 …When former Air Force scientists responded to advise the authors that Air Force projects were most…
  • p. 36 …one of our pmjed's twu dodorB, from ground control at Holloman Air Fon;e Base…
  • p. 44 …dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Forcs Base, New 1-B:cico, 2. The…
  • p. 48 …length motion picture based on Air Force aero medical projects conducted at Holloman AFB, N.M…
  • p. 51 …Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman Air Force Base, N.Mex. 1947-1958, a suspected Holloman…
  • p. 53 …Air Force high altitude balloons at Holloman AFB were determined to be the most expedient method…
  • p. 56 …New Mexico by the Holloman Balloon Branch. Today, the Air Force maintains a reduced but still…
  • p. 57 …Air Force photo) balloon launch facility at Holloman AFB, U.S. Air Force balloon crews have…
  • p. 126 …Army Air Forces secretly shipped the alien bodies with large heads to Wright-Patterson AFB for…
  • p. 154 …Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman Air Force Base, N.Mex. 1947-1958…
  • p. 166 …Air Force in 1957 as a flight surgeon and was assigned to Walker AFB, NM, in…
  • p. 168 …Air Force in 1952 as an aviation cadet. I flew F-84s on 100 combat missions…
  • p. 170 …Following graduation I was hired by the Air Force at Holloman AFB and \Vorked continuously as…
  • p. 174 …NASA personnd prepared the spacecraft for launch from the old hangers ofthe tcHmer Air Force base…
  • p. 178 …Air Force in 1949 :.ts an ihiation C<ldct. From 1950 to 1953 1 flew fighters…
  • p. 180 …I was also involved in the joint Air Force, Navy, and l'vlassachm;etts Institute of…
Witness Description
31. "it was ice cold, it felt like
it just came out of a freezer" 196
Anderson
Vehicles
32. a "jeeplike truck that had
a bunch of radios in it and two
big antennas .... There was a
guy sittin' in there wearin'
earphones and he was talking
on the radio." 197
Anderson
33. "weapons carriers" 198
Ragsdale
34. "six by six Army trucks" 199
Ragsdale
35. "six by [six] ... military
truck with canvas ... wagon
type ... thing over it"200
Anderson
36. "wreckers [with] cranes
on 'em"2ot
37. "a wrecker" 202
38. "there was military
ambulances " 203
39. "the pick-up" 204
Anderson
Ragsdale
Anderson
Anderson
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
Condition of a balloon
payload after it has been
"cold soaked" in the upper
atmosphere at temperatures
far below zero.
Reference to a modified
M-37 3/4-ton utility truck,
commonly referred to as a
weapons carrier, unique to
I the Balloon Branch. >One
of the primacy vehicles
used by recovery crews.
Balloons were tracked by
direction finding gear and
required a. radio operator to
wear headphones (fig. 32).
Corroboration of description
#32. See above.
Reference to M-35 2l/2~ton
cargo truck used to transport
. dunnnies and suspension
racks for launch and
re.coveries (fig. 31).
Corroboration· of description
#34. See.aboVe,
reference to M-246wrecker
11sed to la11nch and recover
··anthropomorphic dummy
payloads (tlgs. 23, 28, 70).
Corroboration of description
# 36. See above.
Reference to a converted M-43
ambulances used as balloon
recovery communications
vehicles (figs. 64, 71, 80).
Pick-up trucks were often
used to recover
anthropomorphic dummies
(figs. 71, 79).
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