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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…
Slattery replaced Goddard as the Chief Nurse and was the only female captain assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital. Interviews of persons with longtime professional and personal associations with Slattery, revealed that she was known by the unusual nickname of Slatts. $ ^{88} $ Additionally, former associates of Slattery interviewed for this report, recalled that she was the only Air Force nurse that had ever been known as Slatts. $ ^{89} $ Persons interviewed were Air Force nurses who retired in the 1960s, each with more than 20 years of service, including retired Air Force Col. Ethel KovatchScott, who served as Chief Nurse of the Air Force from 1963 to 1965.

Upon review of Slattery's personnel file it was learned that she was only 5'3" tall and therefore was most likely not the 6'2" or 6'3""tall skinny" nurse described. $ ^{90} $ This discrepancy in physical description and the fact that she did not arrive at Roswell AAF until nearly one month after Dennis claims he spoke to her, led to the conclusion that perhaps he confused Slattery with some other tall thin nurse, possibly named Wilson, who was stationed at the Roswell AAF or Walker AFB hospital at some other time.

Consequently, a comprehensive review of the morning reports and rosters of the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB hospital revealed that only one nurse named Wilson had ever served there and she did not arrive until February 1956. $ ^{91*} $ Capt. Idabelle Miller, who became Maj. Idabelle Wilson in 1958 due to marriage and a promotion, was assigned to the Walker AFB hospital from February 1956 until May 1960. $ ^{92} $

Upon review of Maj. Wilson's personnel file, it was learned that she was 5'9" tall and thin. Also, she served as the Head Nurse of the surgical ward at the Walker AFB hospital. $ ^{93} $ Therefore, Wilson's physical attributes, tall and thin, and position as Head Nurse matched Dennis' recollections of "Captain Wilson." When contacted by Air Force researchers, Wilson stated she had no recollection of Dennis, of ever having conversations with him, any of the events he described, or of a nurse that was missing. $ ^{94} $ She also made it abundantly clear that as an Air Force officer and medical professional she would not spread a rumor of a plane crash, as Dennis alleged "Captain Wilson" did in conversations with him. $ ^{95} $

## Results of Missing Nurse and Pediatrician Research

Examination of the missing nurse and the pediatrician stories, and other facts established by research, provide a foundation for further analysis to determine what actual event(s), if any, were responsible for these claims. Based on information developed, it appears this witness may be mistaken in

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