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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

US Air Force · 1997 · 234 pages · text from the file's own layer

The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.

  • p. 9 …69 SECTION TWO 2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
  • p. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB-1947…
  • p. 13 …Hospital Dispensary, Building 317, Walker AFB, N.M., 1954. 25. Main Gate at Walker AFB, N…
  • p. 26 …Due to the location of the sites, attention was focused on Roswell AAF (renamed Walker AFB…
  • p. 27 …h Strategic Missile Squadron in areas surrounding Walker AFB, N.M. These missiles were determined not…
  • p. 55 …space probe just prior to launch at Walker AFB, N.M. (formerly Roswell AAF). (U.S…
  • p. 91 …Nordstrom served at Walker AFB from June 1951 until June 1953.60 Records also revealed that…
  • p. 94 …hospital at Roswell AAF or Walker AFB (RoswellAAF was renamed Walker AFB in January 1948). 86
  • p. 95 …Ferrell (left), was commander of the Walker AFB hospital from 1954-1960. In this photo Ferrell…
  • p. 96 …of individuals assigned to the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB hospital indicated that Dennis'recollections of events…
  • p. 97 …Consequently, a comprehensive review of the morning reports and rosters of the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
  • p. 98 …Further, he did not arrive at Walker AFB until June 1951, four years after the purported…
  • p. 99 Table 2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB Witness Description…
  • p. 100 2.2 Aircraft Accidents The examination of events that involved the Walker AFB hospital that may…
  • p. 101 …Table 2.3 Analysis of Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker…
  • p. 102 …Main entrance of the 4036th USAF hospital at Walker AFB, 1956. Initial identification procedures of the…
  • p. 104 …142 Finally, records revealed that due to limited facilities at the Walker AFB hospital, the autopsies…
  • p. 105 …Ferrell served at the Walker AFB hospital from 1954 until 1960. 150 It would not be…
  • p. 106 …In June 1956, the Walker AFB hospital did not have a pathologist on staff. 160 All…
  • p. 107 …the heightened state of security at the Walker AFB hospital; and, d. the shipment of a…
  • p. 108 …descended and were recovered in areas surrounding Walker AFB and Roswell. But based on the descriptions…
  • p. 109 …166 The accident occurred on May 21, 1959, 10 miles northwest of Walker AFB, on a…
  • p. 114 …184 For medical treatment, the pilots were transported by the helicopter to nearby Walker AFB. 185…
  • p. 115 …Kittinger, who has red hair, was present at the Walker AFB hospital the entire time the…
  • p. 116 …the injured balloon pilots arrived at the Walker AFB hospital, even though Project ExcELSIOR was unclassified…
  • p. 119 …the rear of an ambulance at the Walker AFB hospital also appear to be related to…
  • p. 120 …The ramp was attached to the hospital dispensary, Walker AFB Bldg. 317. 217 The other ambulances…
  • p. 121 …like broken glass," a witness' description of debris in the rear of an ambulance at Walker…
  • p. 122 …Main gate at Walker AFB, N.M., formerly Roswell AAF, as it appeared in 1954. During…
  • p. 123 …we could have been ... trying to penetrate the security."223 Walker AFB security officials were satisfied…
  • p. 126 …Although Fulgham did not require hospitalization at Walker AFB, upon his return to Holloman AFB he…
  • p. 127 …the pediatrician did not arrive at the Walker AFB hospital until 1951-four years after the…
  • p. 146 …Roster of Officers, 6th Bomb Wing, Walker AFB, N.M., December 30, 1952, "History of the…
  • p. 149 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7, 1955, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 150 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 151 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 152 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7, 1955, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 153 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 164 …l was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
  • p. 166 …Air Force in 1957 as a flight surgeon and was assigned to Walker AFB, NM, in…
  • p. 167 At no time was there ever any involvement of the Walker hospital with UFO's or…
  • p. 168 …Security was very tight at Strategic Air Command bases such as Walker. On occasion surprise inspection…
  • p. 173 …transpm1ed the three aii·crew members to Walker AFB for medil:al attention. I n:call…
  • p. 176 …Fulgham was loaded into the helicopter and we were taken to the nearest hospital, at Walker…
  • p. 180 …When we arrived at Walker I remember that security \Vas tight as it was at all…
  • p. 182 …At Walker I remember a telephone conversation with a flight surgeon \Vho told me to "go…
  • p. 186 …I was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
  • p. 231 …and Larry" 19 VoYAGER-MARS 44 w Walker AFB, N.M. 15, 17, 45, 83, 86…
2.2
Aircraft Accidents
The examination of events that involved the Walker AFB
hospital that may explain reports of bodies was begun by reviewing the
most prominent possible source, which were aircraft accident(s).* A
review of aircraft accidents from 194 7 to 1960 revealed eight fatal
accidents that involved Walker AFB.
Table 2.2
Fatal Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB
1947-1960
Year Aircraft Location of Accident Number of
Type (distance from Walker AFB, N.M.) Fatalities
1947
None
1948
8/12/48 B-29 4 miles South 13
1949
5/16/49 C-47 6 miles Northeast 6
12/15/49 B-29 2 miles Northwest 7
1950
6/1/50 KB-29 12 miles East/Southeast 3
1951
None
1952
None
1953
None
1954
None
1955
6/16/55 T-33 On runway 2
10/3/55 B-47 34 miles West 2
1956
6/26/56 KC-97 8.8 miles South 11
1957
None
1958
None
1959
None
1960
2/3/60 KC-135 On runway and ramp 13
The following three basic criteria were used to narrow research
efforts to specific accidents for more detailed examinations: were the victims
burned, resulting in possible descriptions of "black" "little bodies"?; were
the victims transported to the Walker AFB hospital?; and, were the victims
' Other possible explanations such as automobile accidents, house fires, etc., were also
examined. However, none of these were determined to be responsible for this account of bodies.
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