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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. 13 …Fulgham at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. 29. Maj. Dan D. Fulgham, James Lovell, Hilary Ray, and…
  • p. 23 …Roswell AAF to another facility, usually Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (or a host of other facilities…
  • p. 33 …In 1959, 150 dummies were dropped by aircraft over Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (possibly accounting for…
  • p. 42 …and later the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, Stapp won support for the…
  • p. 86 …was taken to "Wright Field" (now Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio). $ ^{29} $ The nurse described the little…
  • p. 87 …were transported to what is now Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio. c. The bluish-purplish wreckage that…
  • p. 99 …than normal which was transported to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; d. that may have involved a…
  • p. 102 …the crash, an identification specialist from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio arrived at the hospital to assist…
  • p. 105 …24-hour standby basis, responded from Wright-Patterson AFB to the location of an incident. $ ^{152…
  • p. 107 …the shipment of a body with a large head to Wright-Patterson AFB. Based on previous…
  • p. 111 …Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, appointed a new project officer for Project…
  • p. 112 …to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB. During the third week of May 1959…
  • p. 113 …Kaufman, pilots and Aero Medical Research officers from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio were assigned temporary duty…
  • p. 114 …Stapp, Aero Medical Laboratory commander at Wright-Patterson AFB (the pilots and Project EXCELSIOR were assigned…
  • p. 123 …of the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. ## The "Red-headed Captain" and Dr…
  • p. 124 …ORGANIZATION AND BRANCH OF SERVICE ARDC Wright Patterson(a) 14. PLITING STATUS Yes 13. NAME AND…
  • p. 125 …Fulgham at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio several days after the balloon accident with a "traumatic hematoma…
  • p. 126 # "Bodies" with Large Heads and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio UFO theorists contend that the U.S…
  • p. 132 …Wheeler, High Altitude Bailouts, MCREXD-695-66M (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: USAF Air Materiel Command, September…
  • p. 133 …Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB…
  • p. 135 …Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB…
  • p. 157 …Aerial Phenomena Branch, December 6, 1965, National Air Intelligence Center historical files, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.
  • p. 168 …to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Patterson. I participated in both the Air Force Man…
  • p. 169 …Several days later I returned to Wright Patterson with Capt Kittenger and Capt Kaufman. My wife…
  • p. 175 …During my third assignment at Wright Patterson, I volunteered, along with Capt Dan Fulgham, to be…
  • p. 176 …Three days later, on Sunday, Kittinger, Fulgham and I returned to Wright Patterson via a special…
  • p. 177 …Many scientific accomplishments came out of the various laboratories at Wright Patterson but I am unaware…
  • p. 178 …We also dropped dummies, from aircraft only, at Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. The object of the…
  • p. 179 …they were sent to Holloman from Wright-Patterson for training on a temporary duty basis. On…
  • p. 180 …I made arrangements for all of us to fly to Wright-Patterson on a C-131…
  • p. 184 …before being reassigned to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Patterson. I retired in from the…
  • p. 223 …and Patterson, Jack H. Recovery of Parachute-Borne Packages by Helicopter, TDR 62-6, 1962. AD…
  • p. 232 …Wright Field, Ohio 19, 21, 77 Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio 12, 77-78, 91, 95, 98…
## 2.1 The "Missing" Nurse and the Pediatrician

To illustrate the errors in this account and to identify actual events, the following section will examine the accounts of the missing nurse and the unidentified pediatrician. Both of these persons were allegedly present at the Roswell AAF hospital when the events described by the witness occurred.

## The "Missing" Nurse

Dennis recalled that the nurse was quickly and suspiciously shipped out either the same day or the day after he met with her in the Roswell AAF Officers' Club. If this allegation was true, it certainly seemed unusual—and verifiable. Therefore, the morning reports, the certified daily personnel accounting records required to be kept by all Army Air Forces units at that time, were obtained and reviewed. These reports did not indicate that a nurse or any other person was reassigned on the days alleged, July 8 or July 9, 1947. $ ^{40} $ The morning reports of the 427th Army Air Forces Base Unit (AAFBU) Squadron "M," the unit that all the medical personnel at Roswell AAF were assigned in July 1947, did not indicate a sudden or overseas transfer of a nurse or any other person. Records indicated that one nurse was reassigned on July 23, 1947, over two weeks after the purported events described by Dennis. $ ^{41} $ That nurse was transferred by normal personnel rotation procedures to Ft. Worth AAF (now Carswell AFB), Texas, where she remained on active duty until March 1949. $ ^{42} $ In fact, the Squadron "M" morning reports revealed the strength of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at Roswell AAF for July 1947 was only five nurses. Of these five nurses none were transferred overseas or killed in a plane crash—the "rumored" fate of the missing nurse. $ ^{43} $

This review of the hospital morning reports also indicated that the name of the missing nurse provided by the witness was inaccurate. The witness stated in several interviews that he believed the nurse's name was Naomi Maria Selff. $ ^{44} $ A comprehensive search of morning reports and rosters from the Roswell AAF Station Hospital indicated that no person by this name, or a similar name, had ever served there. This finding was supported by a search of personnel records at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Mo., a part of the National Archives and Record Administration. NPRC is the depository for all U.S. military personnel records. The search at NPRC also did not find a record that a person named Naomi Maria Selff had ever served in any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.

These findings were consistent with previous efforts of several pro-UFO researchers who have also attempted to locate this nurse or

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