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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. 14 …1 Records located describing research carried out under the MoGUL project, most of which were never…
  • p. 27 …There was never a program that required a dummy or doll to be placed inside a…
  • p. 60 …There was never a reason to mislead or threaten individuals who observed balloon operations. Relations with…
  • p. 70 …There was never a reason to disrespect, "scream," "holler," or forbid any person from talking about…
  • p. 86 …The officer, whom Dennis had never seen before, asked him: "Who in the hell are you…
  • p. 87 After this meeting Dennis claimed he never saw the nurse again, and he was told she…
  • p. 92 …recall ever meeting Dennis and had certainly never been visited by Dennis as he has claimed…
  • p. 94 …Since the witness has never provided documentation to support his claims, the only source of additional…
  • p. 127 …Examinations of official records of the alleged primary witnesses revealed that the "missing nurse" was never…
  • p. 164 …During these conversations Dr Nordstrom never mentioned any activities during his tour of duty I considered…
  • p. 167 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 169 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 172 …related to this inquiry and 1 have never been threatened by C. S. Go\lernmcnt persons…
  • p. 174 …rdated to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 177 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by U.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 181 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by t:.s. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 183 …related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by C.S. Government persons concerning…
  • p. 185 …I never found out what happened to the other one. ·n1e next recovery I remember was…
  • p. 186 …with him, and he, to my knowledge, never visited me in Farmington, NM, in Colorado, or…
  • p. 190 …I never heard a sound one, not out of any of the creatures including the one…
  • p. 196 …But he never got up? A: He never got up. He never left the beings that…
  • p. 197 …They never searched us, ever. They ran us back up the hill and when we got…
  • p. 200 …up and leaves and swears I'm never going to go back, and then I go…
  • p. 203 …She never went out of the city until she went to ... My understanding was she never…
  • p. 206 …These were all people that I'd never seen before. That's why I got in…
  • p. 209 …I never did. I went and took it back and put it in my personal file…
  • p. 211 …I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no one believes this damn…
  • p. 212 …I've never read this stuff, I've never watched the videos, I've never read…
  • p. 213 …He never was really a good friend of mine. We lived across the street from each…
  • p. 218 …I never seen anythig like it. Looked like something between a plastic ... looked like carbon paper…
some of his statements, especially regarding the time frame of these events.
The following facts have been established:
a. The only physician who ever relocated to Farmington, N.M.,
following his military service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB was
the former Chief of Pediatric Services at the Walker AFB hospital,
the former Capt. Frank B. Nordstrom. Further, he did not arrive
at Walker AFB until June 1951, four years after the purported
Roswell Incident, has no recollection of Dennis, the statements
Dennis attributes to him, or of any actual events that explain his
account.
b. The only nurse ever assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital
(subsequently renamed Walker AFB) named Wilson, was Idabelle
Wilson. She served at the Walker AFB hospital from 1956 until
1960 and had no recollection of ever meeting or speaking with
Dennis or any of the activities he described.
c. Captain Lucille C. Slattery, the only Air Force nurse ever
known by the distinctive nickname "Slatts," was stationed at the
Roswell AAF hospital. However, she did not arrive until August 7,
1947. This was one month after the Roswell Incident, making it
improbable that Dennis spoke with her in early July 1947.
d. There is no record that a nurse named Naomi Maria Selff, was
ever assigned to Roswell AAF, Walker AFB, or was ever a member
of the U.S. military.
e. All nurses assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947,
have been accounted for, thereby eliminating any possibility that
there was ever a missing nurse.
Since actual Air Force members who served at Roswell AAF/
Walker AFB hospital were described in this account, the next step was
to determine if actual events that occurred at the hospital were possibly
the source of this story. As stated earlier in this report, a thorough
examination of both classified and unclassified records from 194 7
revealed no Army Air Forces or U.S. Air Force activities that explained
the alleged events. Therefore records were reviewed from other time
periods, based on personnel records of individuals believed to have been
identified. These persons and the periods when they were assigned to
Roswell AAF/Walker AFB are listed in Table 2.1.
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