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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. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB—1947…
  • p. 14 …Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 "Roswell" events…
  • p. 15 …earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to…
  • p. 17 …Force report determined that project MOGUL was responsible for the 1947 events. MOGUL was an experimental…
  • p. 18 …An illustration of a Project MOGUL balloon train similar to one found on a ranch 75…
  • p. 19 …in June 1947. When compared to a standard radar target used by project MOGUL, it is…
  • p. 20 …This account from the July 9, 1947 Roswell Daily Record, described the materials "tinfoil, paper, rubber…
  • p. 21 …technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon train on June 4, 1947, that when combined…
  • p. 22 …landing site of a Project MOGUL balloon train in June 1947. $ ^{10} $ The MOGUL landing site…
  • p. 23 …July, 1947—in order to "fit" with the rest of the story. The actual Project MOGUL…
  • p. 24 …Roswell area in July 1947. Examination of research and development projects, aircraft crashes, errant missiles and…
  • p. 50 …Polyethylene balloons, first produced in 1947 for Project MOGUL, are still widely used today for a…
  • p. 52 …AFB which began with the Project MOGUL flights in June 1947, covered a wide spectrum of…
  • p. 64 …Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy…
  • p. 87 …9, 1947. These dates coincide with an actual event: the retrieval of experimental Project MOGUL research…
  • p. 131 …Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New…
  • p. 154 …1947-1958), 11. 165. ibid., and Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request- Project…
  • p. 157 …Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request-Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight…
  • p. 224 . Summary Report Project Moby Dick: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952…
Fig. 8. Announcement from the November 4, 1992 Socorro (N.M.) Defensor Chieftan soliciting witnesses of flying saucer crashes in New Mexico. When former Air Force scientists responded to advise the authors that Air Force projects were most probably responsible for the UFO accounts, they were summarily dismissed by the authors who placed the announcement, and then were accused of participating in a cover-up.

Fig. 9. (Left) B.D. "Duke" Gildenberg served as the civilian meteorologist, engineer, and physical science administrator for the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch from 1951-1981. Gildenberg actively participated in thousands of high altitude balloon operations, including the flights that dropped anthropomorphic dummies at off-range locations throughout New Mexico. Gildenberg, the "father" of Air Force scientific ballooning, was instrumental in identifying the many actual Air Force activities now known as the "Roswell Incident."

Fig.10. (Right) Charles B. Moore, Professor Emeritus of Atmospheric Physics at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, was the project engineer for New York University under contract to the U.S. Army Air Forces to develop high altitude balloon technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon train on June 4, 1947, that when combined with other events, are now known as the "Roswell Incident."

# Authors seek UFO witnesses

Co-authors of a major book on the 1947 crash of at least one alien spacecraft in the New Mexico desert will be at the Golden Manor Motel in Socorro on Monday, Nov. 16 to seek out additional witnesses to these events.

Nuclear physicist Stanton T. Friedman and aviation/science writer Don Berliner, whose "Crash at Corona" is now in its second printing, want to meet with people having knowledge of the 1947 crashes.

Their book, being published in August by Paragon House of New York, is being prepared for a made-for-TV movie. It is the story of the discovery, retrieval, shipping and cover-up of what the authors call the most important scientific discovery of the past thousand years.

It is based on dozens of interviews with first- and second-hand civilian and ex-military witnesses to various parts of what is referred to as a very complex series of events.

In order to strengthen their case for government knowledge of what they call "the truth behind almost 50 years of UFO sightings," the authors are seeking out additional, reliable witnesses. It remains their policy to honor requests to keep the names of witnesses private.

For more information, contact Don Berliner, 1202 S. Washington St., Alexandria, VA., 22314 (703548-0405); or Stanton T. Friedman, 79 Pembroke Crescent, Fredericton, New Brunswick E3B 2V1, Canada (506 457-0232).

Witnesses are invited to call either author collect or to make arrangements to meet them at any of their stops in New Mexico, which include the cities of Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Las Cruces, Alamogordo and Roswell.

Since many of the Roswell accounts and allegations were collected by irregular methods and are not specifically documented, the series of events as alleged by UFO theorists has become very complex and requires clarification. Therefore, the following section will briefly examine some of the more confusing elements of the Roswell stories, specifically, the multiple crash sites and complex scenarios, in order to facilitate an objective analysis of actual events.

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