“Holloman AFB”60+ pages
- p. 11 …Target Balloon Launch Near Holloman AFB, N.M.
50. DISCOVERER Nosecone Rigged for High Altitude Balloon…
- p. 12 …57. "Vee" Balloon at Holloman AFB, N.M.
58. Current Members of the Holloman AFB Balloon…
- p. 13 …Memorial Plaque at Holloman AFB, N.M.
32. Nenninger Balloon Launch Facility at Holloman AFB, N…
- p. 20 …Gildenberg, retired Holloman AFB Balloon Branch Physical Science Administrator and Meteorologist, came forward with pertinent information…
- p. 21 …engineer, and physical science administrator for the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch from 1951-1981. Gildenberg actively…
- p. 26 …AAF (renamed Walker AFB in 1948), White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB, N.M. The…
- p. 27 …Missiles (left) and drones (right) under development at Holloman AFB, N.M. were determined not to…
- p. 28 …unpredictable and did not usually remain over Holloman AFB or White Sands Missile Range. $ ^{28} $ Many…
- p. 36 …and other aero medical projects conducted at Holloman AFB also resulted in a 1956 Twentieth Century…
- p. 37 …Contemporary magazines that featured experiments at Holloman AFB, N.M. Clockwise from top left, Time, September…
- p. 40 …dummies were accomplished by personnel from the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch. $ ^{53} $ Typically, eight to twelve…
- p. 41 …at Muroc (now Edwards AFB), Calif., $ ^{61} $ and later at Holloman AFB, N.M. Developments from…
- p. 42 …Air Force Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman AFB, N.M. and later the Aero Medical Laboratory…
- p. 45 …intended use, were the methods used by Holloman AFB personnel to transport them. The dummies were…
- p. 47 …Air Force research organizations at Holloman AFB, N.M., have launched and recovered approximately 2,500…
- p. 48 …Filmed on location at Holloman AFB, Air Force personnel, high altitude balloons, aircraft, vehicles, and other…
- p. 51 …by Holloman technicians to supplement early balloon tracking techniques. $ ^{76} $ Balloons launched at Holloman AFB generated…
- p. 52 …Research projects of the late 1940's and 1950's conducted at Holloman AFB which began…
- p. 53 …Air Force photo)
An illustration of the important contributions of the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch, and…
- p. 54 …American satellite, made possible in part by Holloman AFB high altitude balloons, enabled the U.S…
- p. 55 …The Holloman Balloon Branch, in addition to high altitude research activities, also conducted low altitude tethered…
- p. 56 …57. (Right) A tethered "Vee" balloon shown here at Holloman AFB, N.M. in March 1965…
- p. 57 balloon launch facility at Holloman AFB, U.S. Air Force balloon crews have recently launched balloons…
- p. 59 …Air Force scientific study and were given a telephone number at Holloman AFB if they required…
- p. 62 …Examples of unusual payloads flown by Air Force high altitude balloons at Holloman AFB, N.M…
- p. 63 …Army communications payload was flown at Holloman AFB, N.M. on September 30, 1976. (U.S…
- p. 68 …NASAs APOLLO spacecraft three-man couch at Holloman AFB, N.M. in 1965. (U.S. Air…
- p. 70 …aircraft, equipment, and procedures used by the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch to launch and recover anthropomorphic…
- p. 72 …Madson "rigs" a dummy to its suspension rack for project HIGH DIVE at Holloman AFB, N…
- p. 73 …Air Force L-20 aircraft used extensively by Holloman AFB crews to track and recover anthropomorphic…
- p. 74 …The Holloman AFB Balloon Branch modified these vehicles in 1953, ruling out the possibility that the…
- p. 82 …by remote control by balloon controllers at Holloman AFB Site1
47. “they took everybody’s name…
- p. 109 …Air Force photo)
Fig.13. (Right) Holloman AFB Balloon Branch Meteorologist and Engineer, Bernard D. Gildenberg…
- p. 110 …Kittinger, Jr., standing beside the EXCELSIOR gondola at Holloman AFB, N.M. On his third and…
- p. 112 …Additionally, two training flights at Holloman AFB also resulted in injuries to pilots. These injuries prompted…
- p. 113 …850 at Holloman AFB. $ ^{176} $ Near the end of another successful training mission with the same…
- p. 114 …The balloon training missions flown from Holloman AFB, N.M. in May 1959, were made in…
- p. 117 …In 1953, Kittinger received an assignment as a test pilot to Holloman AFB, N.M. While…
- p. 119 …The other ambulance had been converted by the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch and served as a…
- p. 120 …The ramp was attached to the hospital dispensary, Walker AFB Bldg. 317. $ ^{217} $ The other ambulances…
- p. 124 …REGISTER NUMBER 6580TH USAF HOSPITAL HOLLOMAN AFB MM 93. REGISTER NUMBER 16059
Fig. 27. Clinical Record…
- p. 125 …to Wright-Patterson AFB aboard a specially arranged flight from Holloman AFB, N.M. (photo collection…
- p. 126 …Although Fulgham did not require hospitalization at Walker AFB, upon his return to Holloman AFB he…
- p. 129 …Plaque placed at Holloman AFB honoring three Balloon Branch members killed during a high altitude balloon…
- p. 133 …Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB…
- p. 134 …1947-1958 (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development Command, 1958) (hereafter Contributions of Balloon Operations…
- p. 136 …Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch, October 12, 1956 - March 14, 1961.
88. Flight Summary, DISCOVERER…
- p. 137 …Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch., October 12, 1956 - March 14, 1961; "Summary of Balloon Flights…
- p. 140 …HADC-TN-54-3 (Holloman AFB, NM: Holloman Air Development Center, March 1954), 7.
157. Recollections…
- p. 154 …Simons, MAN HIGH II, Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman AFB, N.M., AFMDC-TR-59…
- p. 161 …Holloman AFB, N.M.
18 1/25/56 Holloman AFB, N.M. Holloman AFB, N.M…
- p. 162 Number Date Launch Site Landing Site
24 8/21/56 Holloman AFB, N.M. Holloman AFB…
- p. 166 …pilots and he wanted them returned to Holloman AFB as quickly as possible.
The hospital was…
- p. 168 …Capt Kittenger and Capt Bill Kaufman from Holloman AFB, NM in May, 1959. On the second…
- p. 170 …Following graduation I was hired by the Air Force at Holloman AFB and worked continuously as…
- p. 171 …The balloon was launched around midnight from behind the Balloon Branch at Holloman AFB. I remember…
- p. 173 …I completed three tours at the Balloon Branch at Holloman AFB, NM. I retired from the…
- p. 174 …provide them with a telephone number at Holloman AFB if they wanted to report any damages…
- p. 175 …of the Aero Medical Field Laboratory at Holloman AFB, NM.
During my third assignment at Wright…
- p. 176 …When the medical personnel were finished treating Fulgham, all three of us returned to Holloman AFB…
# 1.3 High Altitude Balloon Operations
Research has shown that many high altitude balloons launched from Holloman AFB, N.M., were recovered in locations, and under circumstances, that strongly resemble those described by UFO proponents as the recovery of a "flying saucer" and "alien" crew. When these descriptions were carefully examined, it was clear that they bore more than just a resemblance to Air Force activities. It appears that some were actually distorted references to Air Force personnel and equipment engaged in scientific study through the use of high altitude balloons.
Fig. 44. Inflation of a U.S. Air Force 626 ft. long, 34.6 million cu. ft. research balloon on August 13, 1972. This balloon was launched from Roswell Industrial Air Center (formerly Roswell AAF), Roswell, N.M., to test components of the NASA VIKING space probe. (photo by Ole Jorgeson)
Since 1947, U.S. Air Force research organizations at Holloman AFB, N.M., have launched and recovered approximately 2,500 high altitude balloons. The Air Force organization that conducted most of these activities, the Holloman Balloon Branch, launched a wide range of sophisticated, and from most perspectives, odd looking equipment into the stratosphere above New Mexico. In fact, the very first high altitude data gathering balloon flight launched from Alamogordo Army Airfield (now Holloman AFB), N.M., on June 4, 1947, was found by the rancher and was the first of many unrelated events now collectively known as the "Roswell Incident."