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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…
Notes - Section One
34. Memo, Ted Smith, to W.A. Daler, subj: Bid for Purchase Request
No. 301200, September 17, 1954, National Archives and Records
Administration, Accession No. 342-67E-2954, box 5/15, file 28.
35. H.T. E. Hertzberg, Anthropology ofAnthropomorphic Dummies, Air Force
Medical Research Laboratory, AMRL-TR-69-61, February 1970,3.
36. Maj. John P. Stapp, Human Tolerance to Linear Deceleration, Part I.
Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical
Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development
Center, 1949) and Maj. John P. Stapp, Part II. The Aft Facing Position and
the Development of a Crash Harness, Air Force Technical Report 5915
(Wright Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, 1951 ).
37. H.T. E. Hertzberg, Anthropology ofAnthropomorphic Dummies, Air Force
Medical Research Laboratory, AMRL-TR-69-61, February 1970,3.
38. ibid.
39. ltr., H.L. Daulton, Vice President and Secretary-Treasurer, Sierra
Engineering Company, to W.A. Daler, Headquarters Air Materiel
Command, subject: Proposal, Purchase Request No. 301200, September
16, 1954, National Archives and Records Administration, Accession
No. 342-67E-2954, box 5/15, file 28.
40. Joseph Smrcka, Senior Design Engineer, First Technology Safety
Systems, "Dummies- Past and Present," 2 (unpublished manuscript).
41. Sierra Engineering Co., "Sierra Sam," 1955, National Archives and
Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67E-2954, box 5/15, file 28.
42. 1st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I.
The Unstabilized Dummy Drops, WADC Technical Report 57-477, (Wright
Patterson AFB, OH: Wright Air Development Center, Oct 1957) (hereafter
High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I), 27, and 1st Lt. Raymond A.
Madson, High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, II. The Stabilized Dummy
Drops, WADC Technical Report 57-477 (ll) (Wright PattersonAFB, OH:
Aeronautical Systems Division, Air Force Systems Command, August
1961) (hereafter High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II), 18.
43. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 1.
44. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part L and High Altitude Balloon
Dummy Drops Part IL and Holloman Air Development Center, Weekly Test
Status Reports, Project MX-1450B (Manned Balloon), National Archives
and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis,
MO, Accession No. 342-62A-A-641, box 115/248, folder; R-695-61D,
"High Altitude Escape Studies, Gen B-1, Manned Balloon Flights."
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