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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).
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- 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
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Walker AFB, N.M. 15, 17, 45, 83, 86…
The statements attributed to the redheaded captain, "You did not
see anything. There was no crash here. You don't go into town making
any rumors that you saw anything or that there was any crash," 200 were
consistent with Kittinger's desire to avoid an accident investigation.
However, when interviewed for this report, neither Kittinger nor any of
the other persons documented as having been present in the hospital that
day recalled encountering Dennis. 201
What may have led an uninformed person, such as Dennis, to
believe they were witnessing, or were told of, an unusual or classified
event, was that when the injured balloon pilots arrived at the Walker AFB
hospital, even though Project ExcELSIOR was unclassified, Kittinger
sought to limit disclosure of negative information and publicity. 202
By 1959, having been the subject of intense media scrutiny
following his June 1957 MAN HIGH I high altitude balloon flight, Kittinger
was aware of both the positive and negative aspects of publicity. In his
1961 book, The Long, Lonely Leap, Kittinger described this self-imposed
secrecy regarding Project ExcELSIOR, "The secrecy imposed upon
ExcELSIOR was of our own choosing. We believed ... that any unnecessary
conversation about our activities ... would simply be premature."203
When interviewed for this report, Kittinger further explained of Project
ExcELSIOR and the visit to the hospital at Walker AFB: "We didn't want
publicity... about anything we were doing. So it would have appeared to
someone not conversant with the project that we were 'hush-hush,' that
we were secretive ... it might look like we were trying to cover up a
classified mission."204
The allegations that the redheaded captain, an apparent
reference to Kittinger, threatened anyone while he was at the Walker
AFB hospital are untrue. When interviewed for this report and in signed
statements obtained from Kittinger, the two other balloon pilots, the
doctor who treated them, the medic aboard the helicopter, and the Balloon
Branch communications technician who were present at the hospital that
day (see Appendix B), none of them recalled that Kittinger was involved
in an altercation or made threatening remarks to anyone. 205 Involvement
in an altercation with a civilian would have highlighted the presence of
the balloon crew and possibly brought the type of negative publicity
Kittinger sought to avoid. This would not only have violated Kittinger's
policy of maintaining a low profile in regard to ExcELSIOR, but would be
completely out of character for the seasoned test pilot.
Throughout his career, Kittinger was renowned for his ability
to maintain his composure in difficult, often life threatening, situations.
He faced these situations as a test pilot, as a combat pilot and squadron
commander in Southeast Asia, and as a Prisoner of War while subjected
to severe torture at the hands of the North Vietnamese. In The Pre-
Astronauts, which chronicles many of Kittinger's accomplishments in
the field of aeronautics, including Project ExcELSIOR and STARGAZER, the
author offered the following description of him:
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