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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.
“Patterson”31 pages
- 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.
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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. 20. Balloon Branch
Communications Technician,
A2C Ole Jorgeson, now a
retired Master Sergeant, in the
rear compartment of an M-43
ambulance. Ambulances of
this type were converted
by the Balloon Branch to
communications vehicles in
the late 1950s. It appears the
witness described the two
panels painted Air Force
blue (lower right and left
of ambulance) as "bluish-
purplish" "wreckage" that
looked "kinda like the bottom
of a canoe" and the stenciled
writing above them as
"hieroglyphics"-See figs. 21
and 22 on next page. (photo
collection of Ole Jorgeson)
The "Wreckage" in the
Rear of the Ambulance
The various types of wreckage described in the rear of an
ambulance at the Walker AFB hospital also appear to be related to the 1959
balloon accident. Some of this wreckage allegedly had odd inscriptions,
touted by UFO theorists as "alien" hieroglyphics.
A requirement of balloon pilot training missions were that they
be closely monitored by balloon recovery and medical personneP07 Ground
crews from Holloman AFB followed the balloon flight from its launch site
there to its landing site 10 miles northwest of RoswelF08 Two of the
vehicles that followed the balloon were Dodge M-43 3/4-ton field
ambulances and a third was an M-37 3/4-ton utility vehicle or "weapons
carrier."209 One ambulance was assigned to this mission for its standard
use-a medical response vehicle. The other ambulance had been converted
by the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch and served as a communications
vehicle on balloon recovery missions. 210 The additional communications
equipment, mounted in the rear compartment of the ambulance, drastically
altered what someone expected to see in an ambulance of this type.
Dennis related that he was walking fast when he observed what
he thought was wreckage in the rear of an ambulance. 211 This quick glance
apparently resulted in descriptions of two pieces of wreckage leaning against
the interior of the rear compartment of the ambulance that "was kind of like the
bottom of a canoe .. .like stainless steel... with kind of a bluish-purplish tinge to
it."212 UFO theorists have suggested that these objects were alien spaceship
"escape pods" recovered by the Army Air Forces. However, this appears to be a
remarkably accurate description of two steel panels painted Air Force blue on a
converted ambulance used by the Balloon Branch for this mission.
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