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The Roswell Report: Case Closed
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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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- p. 6 …Air Force scientific research projects High DIVE and EXCELSIOR. Appendix B is a collection of signed…
- p. 9 …Comparison of Testimony to Actual Air Force Equipment and Procedures Used to Launch and Recover Anthropomorphic…
- p. 17 …Army Air Forces recovered a "flying disc" in 1947, were based primarily on the lack of…
- p. 19 …used on the MOGUL balloon train to make it visible to radar. (U.S. Air Force…
- p. 20 …Army Air Forces contract engineer, and Bernard D. Gildenberg, retired Holloman AFB Balloon Branch Physical Science…
- p. 23 …Flying saucer enthusiasts use the documented presence of U.S. Army Air Forces personnel at the…
- p. 25 …Air Force or U.S. Government activities?
## Common Threads
Careful examination of the testimony revealed that…
- p. 27 …Air Force photos)
- p. 28 …Air Force dropped the odd-looking test devices from high altitude balloons in its program to…
- p. 29 …Air Force high altitude balloons. These dummies landed at numerous locations throughout New Mexico during the…
- p. 30 # Test Dummies Used by the U.S. Air Force
Since the beginning of manned flight, designers…
- p. 31 …17. (Left) Early rope and sandbag dummy used to test parachutes. (U.S. Air Force photo…
- p. 32 …and rate gyros. $ ^{41} $ Models used by the Air Force were primarily parachute drop and ejection…
- p. 33 …1959, anthropomorphic dummies were used by the U.S. Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory as part…
- p. 35 …Air Force photo)
- p. 36 ## A Cover-Up?
Countering claims of a cover-up, Air Force projects that used anthropomorphic dummies…
- p. 38 …The dummies used for the balloon drops were outfitted with standard equipment of an Air Force…
- p. 40 …Air Force photo)
Fig. 32. M-37 $ \frac{3}{4} $ -ton utility trucks, known as "weapons…
- p. 41 …Air Force photo)
## The Bravest Man
America was introduced to Col. John Paul Stapp on December…
- p. 45 …Air Force personnel used stretchers and gurneys to pick up 200-pound dummies in the field…
- p. 46 …Air Force photo)
Figs. 42 & 43. These reports detailed the methods and procedures used for the…
- p. 47 …references to Air Force personnel and equipment engaged in scientific study through the use of high…
- p. 48 …Filmed on location at Holloman AFB, Air Force personnel, high altitude balloons, aircraft, vehicles, and other…
- p. 50 …Army Air Forces, made a significant technological discovery: the use of polyethylene for high altitude balloon…
- p. 51 …Air Force have reached altitudes of 170,000 feet and lifted payloads of 15,000 pounds…
- p. 52 …s high altitude balloons were used in support of Air Force, and other U.S. Government…
- p. 53 …Air Force photo)
An illustration of the important contributions of the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch, and…
- p. 56 …Today, the Air Force maintains a reduced but still highly capable high altitude balloon program at…
- p. 58 Many of the procedures used to position Air Force balloons are described in General Philosophy and…
- p. 60 …Air Force photo)
- p. 64 …Air Force Activities
Were they aliens or dummies? This question can be answered by comparing witness…
- p. 66 …Another portion of his testimony suggesting that the witness observed an Air Force high altitude balloon…
- p. 68 …Air Force photo)
- p. 70 …The use of such heavy-handedness was not a tactic used by the Air Force. A…
- p. 71 to a standard issue, gray, Air Force flightsuit used to outfit the dummies and red duct…
- p. 72 …Air Force photo)
Fig. 76. A witness described at least one person at a "crash" site…
- p. 73 …Air Force L-20 aircraft used extensively by Holloman AFB crews to track and recover anthropomorphic…
- p. 74 …Air Force photo)
- p. 75 …Air Force photo)
Fig. 81. Scene typical of a mid- to late 1950s off-range high…
- p. 76 …Air Force are compared to documented Air Force activities, it is reasonable to conclude, with a…
- p. 78 Table 1.1
Comparison of Testimony to Actual Air Force Equipment, Vehicles, and Procedures Used to…
- p. 80 Witness Description Air Force Equipment/Procedure “Crash Site”
21. “It's uniform was torn in…
- p. 81 Witness Description Air Force Equipment/Procedure “Crash Site”
31. “it was ice cold, it felt like…
- p. 82 Witness Description Air Force Equipment/Procedure “Crash Site”
40. “tankers, like, maybe had fuel or water…
- p. 83 …Air Force Equipment/Procedure “Crash Site”
49. “they had the road barricaded off”214Anderson Procedure used…
- p. 93 …Air Force. $ ^{66} $
In his book, Scully claimed he had information from two scientists, Silas M…
- p. 94 ## Descriptions of Other Air Force Members
Since official records proved that none of the nurses at…
- p. 103 …One of the first exploitation attempts involved a fatal August 1, 1947 Army Air Forces B…
- p. 105 In fact, the Air Force manual that prescribed the policies, standards and procedures relating to the…
- p. 108 …The only other manned high altitude balloon project in Air Force history, STARGAZER, did not fly…
- p. 110 …Air Force photo)
widely publicized manned high altitude balloon programs. The objective of Project MAN HIGH…
- p. 115 …Some senior research and development officials within the Air Force were reluctant to support a project…
- p. 117 …Air Force photo)
## Colonel Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., USAF (Ret)
Colonel Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr.'s…
- p. 119 …two steel panels painted Air Force blue on a converted ambulance used by the Balloon Branch…
- p. 122 …us at the tower.' The tower established the fact that yes, we were an Air Force…
- p. 164 …I was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
- p. 168 …Air Force in 1952 as an aviation cadet. I flew F-84s on 100 combat missions…
- p. 169 …During my Air Force career I was involved in many different scientific research projects including the…
- p. 171 …The crews consisted primarily of Air Force members in uniform and they operated military vehicles. I…
- p. 175 …Later during my Air Force career, in 1961, I earned a Ph.D. in Physiology and…
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CASE
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