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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.

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Table 2.1
Persons Described and Periods of Service
at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB
Witness
Description
the "missing" nurse
"Capt. 'Slatts' Wilson"
(composite of two
individuals)
"the pediatrician"
"big redheaded colonel"
Actual Individual
Described
1st Lt. Eileen M. Fanton
Capt. Lucille C. Slattery
and
Maj. Idabelle M.Wilson
Capt. Frank B. Nordstrom
Col. Lee F. Ferrell
The Research Profile
Period of Service at
Roswell AAF/Walker AFB
Dec. 1946- Sept. 1947
Aug. 1947- Sept. 1950
Feb. 1956- May 1960
June 1951 -June 1953
Oct. 1954- June 1960
With the establishment of a possible time frame, research efforts
paralleled the previous examination in Section One of this report that
determined high altitude balloons with anthropomorphic dummy payloads
were responsible for the reports of aliens at the two rural New Mexico
"crashed saucer" locations. A further review of Air Force activities was
then made to determine if any were significantly similar to the information
provided. Based on the time period established by personnel records and
statements contained in the witness' own account, the following profile of
possible events was established:
An event involving the Walker AFB hospital that took place
between 1947 and 1960;
a. that may have resulted in "very mangled," "black," "little
bodies," that had a strong "odor" being placed in "body bags";
b. that may have resulted in two persons not normally assigned
to the hospital, believed to be doctors, that were "supposedly doing
preliminary autopsies" on the "little bodies";
c. that may have involved a body with a head that was much
larger than normal which was transported to Wright-Patterson
AFB, Ohio;
d. that may have involved a redheaded captain or a big red-
headed colonel;
e. that may have resulted in an ambulance parked in the rear
of the hospital containing wreckage with inscriptions, that were
bluish-purplish which looked kind of like the bottom of a canoe;
and,
f. that may have required a heightened state of security.
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