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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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“Project Mogul”14 pages

  • p. 10 …Drawing of Project MoGUL Balloon Train. 4. Maj. Jesse Marcel With "Flying Disc" Debris. 5. ML…
  • p. 14 …1 Records located describing research carried out under the MoGUL project, most of which were never…
  • p. 17 …3 The 1994 Air Force report determined that project MoGUL was responsible for the 1947 events…
  • p. 18 …An illustration of a Project MoGUL balloon train similar to one found on a ranch 75…
  • p. 19 …When compared to a standard radar target used by project MoGuL, it is clear that they…
  • p. 21 …Army Air Forces to develop high altitude balloon technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon…
  • p. 22 …site of a Project MoGUL balloon train in June 1947. 10 The MoGUL landing site is…
  • p. 23 …The actual Project MoGuL landing site, 75 miles northwest of Roswell, lends credibility, and more importantly…
  • p. 24 …The reports of bodies were not associated with Project MoGUL. The MoGUL balloon train did not…
  • p. 50 High Altitude Polyethylene Research Balloons In 1946, as a result of research conducted for project MoGuL…
  • p. 52 …at Holloman AFB which began with the Project MoGUL flights in June 1947, covered a wide…
  • p. 131 …Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New…
  • p. 170 …Based on my experience \vith this project I am certain project Mogul was responsible lor some…
  • p. 230 Project 119L 42 Project BLUEBOOK 117 Project GEMINI 120 Project MERCURY 111 Project MoGUL. See MoGUL…
Notes - Section One
45. ibid.
46. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 1, and High Altitude Balloon
Dummy Drops Part II, 18.
47. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., The Long, Lonely Leap, (New York: E.P.
Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961), and Lt. Col. David G. Simons, Man High, (New
York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960), and Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger,
Jr., "The Long, Lonely Leap," National Geographic 118, no. 6 (December
1960): 854-873, "Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth,"
Life 49, no. 9 (August 29,1960): 20-25, Popular Mechanics Magazine,
January 1951: 118, Collier's, June 25, 1954, Time, September 12, 1955,
"The Fastest Man on Earth".
48. Don Reilly, "MAD Salutes an Unsung Hero:' MAD, no. 61, (March 1961), 46.
49. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, and High Altitude Balloon
Dummy Drops Part II.
50. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, 11-12.
51. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret)
and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 16.
52. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 5.
53. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17.
54. ibid., and Memorandum, subj: Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d.,
National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67B-2133,
box 65/249, file 2, "Biophysics Branch-Escape Section, High Altitude Escape
Studies, 7218-71719;' and Robert Blankenship, retired Balloon Branch Recovery
Supervisor, telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, July 14, 1995.
55. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).
56. Blankenship, and Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., and
Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon
Operations in the Southwestern United States (hereafter Meteorological
Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United
States), AFCRL-66-706 (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force
Cambridge Research Laboratories, October 1966), 27.
57. Historical Branch, Office of Information Services, Air Force Missile
Development Center, Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and
Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman AFB,
N. Mex. 1947-1958 (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development
Command, 1958) (hereafter Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research
and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1947-1958), 90.
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