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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 1947”19 pages

  • p. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB-1947…
  • p. 14 …Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 "Roswell" events…
  • p. 15 …earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to…
  • 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 …in June 1947. When compared to a standard radar target used by project MoGuL, it is…
  • p. 20 …This account from the July 9, 1947 Roswell Daily Record, described the materials "tinfoil, paper, rubber…
  • p. 21 …technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon train on June 4, 1947, that when combined…
  • p. 22 …landing site of a Project MoGUL balloon train in June 1947. 10 The MoGUL landing site…
  • p. 23 …July, 1947- in order to "fit" with the rest of the story. The actual Project MoGuL…
  • p. 24 …Roswell area in July 1947. Examination of research and development projects, aircraft crashes, errant missiles and…
  • p. 50 …Polyethylene balloons, first produced in 1947 for Project MoGuL, are still widely used today for a…
  • p. 52 …AFB which began with the Project MoGUL flights in June 1947, covered a wide spectrum of…
  • p. 64 …Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy…
  • p. 87 …9, 1947. These dates coincide with an actual event: the retrieval of experimental Project MoouL research…
  • p. 131 …Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New…
  • p. 154 …1947-1958), 11. 165. ibid., and Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request- Project…
  • p. 157 …Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request- Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight…
  • p. 224 --. Summary Report Project MoBY DicK: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952…
Notes - Section Two
Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records
Center, St. Louis, Mo.
139. ibid.
140. ibid.
141. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
142. Standard form 503, "Autopsy Protocol," June 27, 1956, Personnel
Record of Air Force members, service numbers AO 2223861 and AF
37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National
Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., and Air Force Form 14b,
"Medical Report of an Individual Involved in AF Aircraft Accident," June
26, 1956, Headquarters Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland AFB, N.M.
143. DD Form 481-3, "Clinical Record Cover Sheet," June 26, 1956,
Personnel Record of Air Force members, service numbers
AO 2223861and AF 37578524, National Archives and Records
Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
144. Karl T. Pflock, "Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His
Code of Silence," Omni, Fall1995, 108.
145. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7,
1955, George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to MCTSG,
October 12, 1955, Accession No. 342-65A-6025, Box 25/28, folder
Trip Rpts., Search & ldent: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip #198 to 234,
National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel
Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., andAF Form 697, "Identification
Findings and Conclusions," 3 Feb 1960, Personnel Records of Air
Force members, service numbers AO 794152 and 1046844, National
Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records
Center, St. Louis, Mo.
146. Air Force Manual143-l, 1 November 1953, "Mortuary Affairs," 28-29,
Accession No. 341, Entry 36, Box 13, Microfilm Reel167, National
Archives and Record Administration, College Park, Md.
147. Official Trip Report- Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956,
George J. Schwaderer, Identification Specialist, to Thomas W. Toy, Chief
Memorial Affairs Branch, July 5, 1956, Accession No. 342-65A-6025,
Box 25/28, folder Trip Rpts., Search & Ident: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip
#198 to 234, National Archives and Records Administration, National
Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., and Jack L. Whenry, Maj.,
USAF, (Ret), telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, January
26, 1995, and John C. Walter, MSgt., USAF (Ret), telephone interview
with Capt. James McAndrew, June 29, 1995 and July 12, 1996.
148. Walter and Whenry.
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