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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 Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
“Works”31 pages
- p. 9 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
(1995), the first Air Force work on the alleged “Roswell…
- p. 28 …From the remaining testimony, Air Force researchers developed
the following set of working hypotheses to assist…
- p. 29 …regard both to
the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common
threads…
- p. 55 …Moore, a New York University graduate student working under
contract for the U.S. Army Air…
- p. 82 …hs
However, since Ragsdale reportedly lived or worked in the
Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad, N.M…
- p. 91 …at the Ballard Funeral Home, where he worked, from the Mortuary
Affairs officer at Roswell Army…
- p. 92 …day at the funeral home where he
worked and agreed to meet with him at the…
- p. 99 …In 1948, a work of
fiction reportedly appeased in the Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review describing…
- p. 101 …units of assignment, and work
assignments for his/her entire military career.
This detailed examination revealed…
- p. 102 …I was informed that she
wasn’t working that day. Dennis then telephoned An old girl…
- p. 112 …home.‘“5
‘ It is unclear when Dennis worked at this funeral home since city and phone…
- p. 133 …that at first appeared to be
the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible.
Fig. 27…
- p. 136 …Fulghamj
Fulgham recalled that upon his return to work at the Aero Medical
Laboratory he received…
- p. 179 …I also participated in the X- 15 and X-10 programs
and worked as a bioastronautics…
- p. 181 …Follow~ing graduation I was hired by the .ti Force at
Holloman .+‘I3 and worked continuously…
- p. 182 …I also worked with Capt Kittinger on Project Stargazer. I also had met several times the…
- p. 186 …During that
time I was a physiological training officer and worked in the
development of early…
- p. 187 …uniform hat
for some time..1 later worked with Capt Kittinger on the Stargazer
project and…
- p. 191 …I worked very eloselv with Dr IQnek over a petiod of five years from
1958 to…
- p. 206 …know, sign language and that didn’t work.
And I don’t know, for some reason…
- p. 208 …everybody and he told them that he worked out on the plains out there and
that…
- p. 212 …Was this a guy you’d worked with before? Somebody you
knew real well?
A: No…
- p. 213 …When did you first go to work for him?
A: I went to work for him…
- p. 215 …That had been worked over two or three times.
Q: When you look at it looks…
- p. 217 …When you
put flame on stainless, see, I do sculpture work and all that, and I…
- p. 218 …I worked on a hell of a lot of stuff.
kind of stt%, In ‘hat ’
ape…
- p. 220 …I knew the work station that she always worked at. She was a general nurse.
They…
- p. 222 …doesn’t
know, because when he was working up there was another manager, and
he said…
- p. 225 …When they were doing the writing, they were working from
Stan’s tape.
A: Evidently.
Q…
- p. 228 …He was out
working in the tield and I understood that he was out on the…
- p. 233 …But it could have been
out lonqer than that there but see I worked in Carlsbad…
of a dummy’s arms and legs during tests.lJ5 A reference to a bandage
“around his [the crewmember’s] midsection and partially over his
shoulder”‘“” 1s a likely reference to the standard B-4 or B-5 parachute
with chest and shoulder straps worn by the dummies.‘“’
The “Craft.” In what appears to be a clear reference to a balloon,
was that when he saw the crashed vehicle he “thought it was a blimp.“‘“”
Additional descriptions of cables that “went from one kind of a package
of components to another kind of package” and a “metal box” were likely
references to the balloon control package that was positioned on top of the
dummy suspension rack. I49A further reference to a balloon payload is the
statement that on a hot New Mexico day the crashed vehicle was “ice cold,
it felt like it just came out of the freezer.“15” This accurately describes a
physical condition known as “cold soaking” common to high altitude
payloads that had recently been exposed to sub-zero temperatures of the
upper atmosphere.
Military Aircraft. The witness also described two aircraft of the
same type used for anthropomorphic dummy recoveries as having been
involved in the activity he witnessed. One aircraft was described as a “C-47”
and another as an “observation aircraft...a high-winged aircraft.““’ These
were a C-47 and a L-20 aircraft used extensively by the Balloon Branch
during the mid 1950s for tracking and recovering anthropomorphic dummy
Fig. 77. “An observation
aircraft...a high-winged
aircraft”--a witness‘s probable
reference IU a U.S. Air Force
L-20 aircraf used rxtrnsively by
Ho,,oman AFB crews to track
and recover anthropomorphic
dummies. (US Air FinwphoroJ
Fig. 78. Described as present
at a flying saucer “crash” site
was a C-47 aircraft. This is
a probable reference to a U.S.
Air Force c-47 transp”rt
aircraft used to move
equipment to launch sites
distant from Holloman AFB.
These aircraft were also used
for aerial tracking of high
altitude balloon flights
including those that ilew
anthropomorphic dummies.
(U.S. Air Four phoro)
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