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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. 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…
"Bodies" with Large Heads
and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio
UFO theorists contend that the U.S. Army Air Forces secretly
shipped the alien bodies with large heads to Wright-Patterson AFB for
further processing and deep-freeze storage. However, it is likely that, in this
account, this is a reference to Fulgham's return to Wright-Patterson AFB
following the balloon mishap.
Although Fulgham did not require hospitalization at Walker AFB,
upon his return to Holloman AFB he was admitted to the base hospital for
observation. Three days later on May 24, 1959, the balloon pilots were
flown from Holloman to Wright-Patterson AFB on a specially arranged flight
aboard a C-131 hospital aircraft. 234
The return to Wright-Patterson AFB was directed by Stapp and
coordinated by Kittinger. 235 The preliminary arrangements for this flight
were made by Kittinger while at the Walker AFB hospital. 236 Kittinger
recalled that conversations with Stapp regarding their return to Wright-
Patterson AFB were made by phone in busy areas of the hospital and these
conversations could have been overheard by nearly anyone present. 237
Upon their arrival at Wright-Patterson, Fulgham, who Kittinger did
not want to transport on a commercial flight due to his odd appearance, still
could not open his eyes and had to be led down the steps of the aircraft.
Kittinger recalled that Fulgham's wife was waiting at the bottom of the
aircraft steps when they arrived.
"They dropped the ramp and I looked down at the bottom and there
was Dan Fulgham's wife," Kittinger said. "Dan couldn't see ... so I grabbed
him by the arm ... Dan's wife sees me leading this blob down the staircase ...
and she looks right at me and says, 'Where's my husband?' I said, 'Ma'am,
this is your husband'. I presented her this blob that I was leading down the
ramp. And she let out this scream you could hear a mile away. He was such
a horrendous looking thing that she had no idea that the thing I was leading
down that ramp was her husband."238
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Fig. 29. As a physiologist for
the space program, Fulgham
(third from left) discusses
Project GEMINI emergency
escape systems at the U.S.
Navy Aerospace Recovery
facility at El Centro, Calif. on
January 28, 1965. Shown with
Fulgham (from left) are NASA
astronaut Jim Lovell, NASA
project engineer Hilary Ray,
and NASA astronaut Alan
Bean. (U.S. Navy photo)

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