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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 Headquarters United States Air Force report by Captain James McAndrew that follows up the 1994 Air Force report on the Roswell Incident. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from Project MOGUL balloons. It also says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. Claims of bodies at the Roswell hospital most likely combined a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 4 …Unidentified flying objects—Sightings and encounters—New Mexico—Roswell. I. Title TL789.5.N6M33 1997 001…
  • p. 84 …Incident, are based on activities he allegedly encountered as a mortician providing contract services to the…
  • p. 85 …When he went inside the hospital, he encountered a military nurse who was assigned there and…
  • p. 86 …examining room to get some supplies and encountered two doctors whom she did not recognize that…
  • p. 116 …present in the hospital that day recalled encountering Dennis. $ ^{201} $ What may have led an uninformed…
  • p. 124 …advisor for the science-fiction film Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Also, based on his…
  • p. 127 …of "immediate compassionate sympathy" from persons he encountered, including his secretary, who cried when she saw…
  • p. 184 …We encountered considerable difficulty dropping the dummies from the balloons. I designed the rack that suspended…
  • p. 227 …81 caskets 35, 76 Chavez, Dennis, Sen. (N.M.) 87 Cheney Award 31-32 Close Encounters…
## Notes - Section One

34. Memo, Ted Smith, to W.A. Daler, subj: Bid for Purchase Request No. 301200, September 17, 1954, National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67E-2954, box 5/15, file 28.

35. H.T. E. Hertzberg, Anthropology of Anthropomorphic Dummies, Air Force Medical Research Laboratory, AMRL-TR-69-61, February 1970, 3.

36. Maj. John P. Stapp, Human Tolerance to Linear Deceleration, Part I. Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, 1949) and Maj. John P. Stapp, Part II. The Aft Facing Position and the Development of a Crash Harness, Air Force Technical Report 5915 (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, 1951).

37. H.T. E. Hertzberg, Anthropology of Anthropomorphic Dummies, Air Force Medical Research Laboratory, AMRL-TR-69-61, February 1970, 3.

38. ibid.

39. ltr., H.L. Daulton, Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, Sierra Engineering Company, to W.A. Daler, Headquarters Air Materiel Command, subject: Proposal, Purchase Request No. 301200, September 16, 1954, National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67E-2954, box 5/15, file 28.

40. Joseph Smrcka, Senior Design Engineer, First Technology Safety Systems, "Dummies - Past and Present," 2 (unpublished manuscript).

41. Sierra Engineering Co., "Sierra Sam," 1955, National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67E-2954, box 5/15, file 28.

42. 1st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I. The Unstabilized Dummy Drops, WADC Technical Report 57-477, (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, Oct 1957) (hereafter High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I), 27, and 1st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, II. The Stabilized Dummy Drops, WADC Technical Report 57-477 (II) (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, August 1961) (hereafter High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II), 18.

43. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 1.

44. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, and Holloman Air Development Center, Weekly Test Status Reports, Project MX-1450B (Manned Balloon), National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, MO, Accession No. 342-62A-A-641, box 115/248, folder; R-695-61D, "High Altitude Escape Studies, Gen B-1, Manned Balloon Flights."

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