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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.
“Works”32 pages
- p. 7 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert
(1995), the first Air Force work on the alleged "Roswell…
- p. 24 …From the remaining testimony, Air Force researchers developed
the following set of working hypotheses to assist…
- p. 25 …regard both to
the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common
threads…
- p. 50 …Moore, a New York University graduate student working under
contract for the U.S. Army Air…
- p. 76 …165
However, since Ragsdale reportedly lived or worked in the
Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad, N.M…
- p. 85 …at the Ballard Funeral Home, where he worked, from the Mortuary
Affairs officer at Roswell Army…
- p. 86 …23
The nurse called Dennis later that same day at the funeral home where he
worked…
- p. 92 …In 1948, a work of
fiction reportedly appeared in the Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review describing…
- p. 94 …NCO to accompany and seem to be
working with a white officer, it would be unlikely…
- p. 95 …I was informed that she
wasn't working that day. Dennis then telephoned An old girl…
- p. 104 …145
' It is unclear when Dennis worked at this funeral home since city and phone directories…
- p. 124 …that at first appeared to be
the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible.
Ll!lSUE…
- p. 127 …Fulgham)
Fulgham recalled that upon his return to work at the Aero Medical
Laboratory he received…
- p. 168 …I also participated in the X-15 and X-20 programs
and worked as a bioastronautics…
- p. 170 …I also worked on the ~1oby Dick
Project that collected meteorological data and the classified Gopher…
- p. 171 …I also worked with Capt Kininger on Project Stargazer. I also had met several times the…
- p. 175 …During that
time I was a physiological training officer and worked in the
development of early…
- p. 176 …I later worked with Capt Kittinger on the Stargazer
project and and occasionally flew aircraft with…
- p. 180 …I worked very closely with Dr Hynek over a period of five years from
1958 to…
- p. 184 …aspe~.,:ts of the space program
and worked on the highly classiftcd t~-2 project. I…
- p. 193 …know, sign language and that didn't work.
And I don't know, for some reason…
- p. 195 …everybody and he told them that he worked out on the plains out there and
that…
- p. 199 …Was this a guy you'd worked with before? Somebody you
knew real well?
A: No…
- p. 200 …When did you first go to work for him?
A: I went to work for him…
- p. 202 …That had been worked over two or three times.
Q: When you look at it looks…
- p. 204 …When you
put flame on stainless, see, I do sculpture work and all that, and I…
- p. 205 …I worked on a hell of a lot of stuff.
Q: In that tape you talked…
- p. 207 …I knew the work station that she always worked at. She was a general nurse.
They…
- p. 209 …doesn't
know, because when he was working up there was another manager, and
he said…
- p. 212 …When they were doing the writing, they were working from
Stan's tape.
A: Evidently.
Q…
- p. 215 …He was out
working in the field and I understood that he was out on the…
- p. 220 …But it could have been
out longer than that there but see I worked in Carlsbad…
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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