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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. 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 …126 On the day following the crash, an identification specialist from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio arrived…
  • 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. ================a~~F=============== The "Red-headed Captain…
  • 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 …Phenomena Branch, December 6, 1965, National Air Intelligence Center historical files, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. 153
  • 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 …at \\'tight-Patterson . \FB. OH. The object of the Holloman tests were to study the free…
  • p. 179 …they were sent to Holloman tfom \\'right-Patterson for training on a temporary duty basis. On…
  • p. 180 …I made an·angements for all of us to tly to Wright-Patterson on a C…
  • p. 184 …before being reassigned to the . \ero \ kdical Laboratory at Wright Patterson. I rctinxl in trom the…
  • p. 223 …and Patterson, Jack H. Recovery of Parachute-Borne Packages by Helicopter, TDR 62-6, 1962. Flight…
Fig. 9. Three of the 11 Air
Force members killed in the
June 26, 1956 KC-97 accident
were autopsied at the Ballard
Funeral Home in Roswell.
The actual descriptions of
the remains (only three were
autopsied), closely corresponds
with Dennis' descriptions
regarding the "little bodies."
Additionally, this is the same
funeral home where Dennis
claimed to be employed from
1947 untill962.
Statements made by Dennis described bodies that were "three-and-
a-half to four feet tall," and "black" in color. 135 The autopsy protocols of
two victims described extensive third degree burns and loss of the lower
extremities. 136 Dennis also described a head of one of the bodies that was not
rigid but "flexible" and tissues of a body in "strings" that looked as if they were
"pulled" by predatory animals after the crash. 137 An autopsy protocol of a victim
described "multiple fractures of all bones of the skull" and "partially cooked
strands of bowel... over the abdomen and in the chest." 138 Additional similarities
between the autopsy protocols and Dennis' statements were a detached hand and
descriptions of the fingers and arms of the crash victims. 139
The autopsy protocol of one victim also described remains with
a "face completely missing." 140 This description corresponds with Dennis'
recollections of a body with eyes and nose that were concave. Also, the drawing
of the head of one of the "little bodies" Dennis claims is representative of a
drawing given to him by the missing nurse is a reasonably accurate representation
of a human body with its face completely missing. 141
Another similarity to Dennis' account is that of the 11 victims of
this accident, only three were autopsied-the same number of bodies that were
allegedly autopsied in the missing nurse's account. 142 Finally, records revealed
that due to limited facilities at the Walker AFB hospital, the autopsies were
performed at the Ballard Funeral Home in Roswell. 143 This is the same funeral
home where Dennis claimed to be employed in 1947 until1962. 144*
The Odor. Transportation of remains to a small base hospital
was unusual since the hospital did not have the necessary facilities- a
preparation room, refrigeration equipment or a morgue, to accommodate
multiple deceased persons. Records of other crashes involving Walker AFB
showed that the remains of crash victims were transported either to another
facility on Walker AFB or directly to a local funeral home. 145
' It is unclear when Dennis worked at this funeral home since city and phone directories
listed him as co-owning a different funeral home in Roswell, as vice-president of another funeral
home in Roswell, and as having been employed as a drug store supervisor and oil field worker
during the periods when he claims he worked at the Ballard Funeral Home.
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