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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.

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  • p. 47 …N.M., to test components of the NASA VIKING space probe. (photo by Ole Jorgeson) 1…
  • p. 51 …anthropomorphic dummies to sophisticated satellite components and NASA interplanetary space probes. Many of these payloads, some…
  • p. 52 …Instrument testing of atmospheric entry vehicles for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space probes…
  • p. 54 …Examples of unusual payloads, not likely to be associated with balloons, were qualification trials of NASA…
  • p. 55 …53. (Above Left) The aeroshell of a NASA VoYAGER- MARS space probe just prior to launch…
  • p. 56 …97 The tethered balloon and the NASA space probes are just two examples of the uncommon…
  • p. 68 …HIGH DIVE/EXCELSIOR, were used to test NASAs APOLLO spacecraft three-man couch at Holloman AFB…
  • p. 110 …Technology developed for MISS was transferred to NASA in 1959 and became part of Project MERCURY…
  • p. 111 …With the completion of Project STARGAZER and the success of NASA's Project MERCURY space flights…
  • p. 117 …space program with the experience gained from MAN HIGH being incorporated in NASA's Project MERCURY…
  • p. 126 …Shown with Fulgham (from left) are NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, NASA project engineer Hilary Ray, and…
  • p. 132 …Chronology, Report No. SP4001 (Wash. D.C.: NASA, 1963) 2-3, and Lloyd Malian, Men, Rockets…
  • p. 168 …and worked as a bioastronautics ofticer with NASA on Gemini. During my Air Force career, I…
  • p. 172 …Another project \Vith \vhich I was involved, \vas the NASA Voyager and Viking Projects. These space…
  • p. 174 …summer of 1972 to support this project. NASA personnd prepared the spacecraft for launch from the…
  • p. 229 …museum 3, 75 mystery witness 75 N NASA 37, 41, 44-46, 59, 103, 111, 120…
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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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