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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. 36 …Simons (MC), a feature article in National Geographic, and cover stories in Life, Collier's, Popular…
  • p. 37 …Clockwise from top left, Time, September 12, 1955; Life, August 29, 1960; Popular Mechanics Magazine, (center…
  • p. 46 …MADSON, 1ST/LT, USAF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS LABORATORY AEROSPACE MEDICAL LABORATORY RAY~OND A. MADSON, 1ST…
  • p. 65 …said that he was easily confused" and "memories of his life were jumbled and reordered." 56
  • p. 116 …to maintain his composure in difficult, often life threatening, situations. He faced these situations as a…
  • p. 129 …With his parachute wrapped around his neck and body and hopelessly out of control, his life…
  • p. 134 …854-873, "Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth," Life 49, no. 9 (August…
  • p. 154 …DD Form 613, R&D Progress Card, Project 7164, "Physiology of Flight," Task 71840, "Life Supporting…
  • p. 184 …Thi.! A.kkrson dummy had t:1cial features th~1t \Ven; not life-like and cars…
  • p. 196 …want to spend the rest of their life in prison they would never say anything about…
  • p. 203 …Her whole thing in life was, from the day she was born, her life was planned…
  • p. 212 …I've got another life besides UFOs. But anyway, Stan Friedman's story is pretty well…
  • p. 228 …111 legal claims 58 Life magazine 26-27 lights, strobe 41 "little men" 84-85 livestock…
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Fig. 31. Plaque placed at
Holloman AFB honoring three
Balloon Branch members
killed during a high altitude
balloon recovery when their
L-20 balloon chase plane
crashed in the rugged Gila
Mountains near Stafford, Ariz.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Fig. 32. (Left) The balloon
launch facility at Holloman
AFB, N.M. was named in
honor of Maj. Richard L.
Nenninger who died of
injuries received in an aircraft
crash during a balloon
recovery mission on April 7,
1970 in the Sacramento
Mountains near Ruidoso, N.M.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Fig. 33. (Right) A semi-
conscious Capt. Joseph W.
Kittinger, Jr., following the
ExcELSIOR I parachute jump
from 76,000 feet. With his
parachute wrapped around
his neck and body and
hopelessly out of control,
his life was saved by an
ingeniously designed
reserve parachute system
that opened just moments
before contacting the desert
floor; White Sands Proving
Ground, November 16, 1959.
(U.S. Air Force photo)

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