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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. 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 Two
149. ibid.
150. WD AGO FORM 66, "Officer's Qualification Record," and AF FORM
11, "Officer Military Record," Personnel Record of Col. Lee F. Ferrell,
National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel
Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
151. "Air Force Care of Deceased Personnel (1951-1959), Volume 1: Text",
Historical Study No. 236, Call No. K 201-326, Air Force Historical
Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
152. Air Force Manual143-1, 1 November 1953, "Mortuary Affairs," 27,
Accession No. 341, Entry 36, Box 13, Microfilm Reel167, National
Archives and Record Administration, College Park, Md.
153. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956,
George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to Thomas W. Toy, Chief
Memorial Affairs Branch, Air Force Services Division, July 5, 1956
and 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 & !dent:
Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip # 198 to 234, National Archives and Records
Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
154. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through
30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to Thomas
W. Toy, Chief Memorial Affairs Branch, Air Force Services Division,
July 5, 1956, Accession No. 342-65A-6025, Box 25/28, folder Trip
Rpts., Search & !dent: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip #198 to 234, National
Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records
Center, St. Louis, Mo.
155. George J. Schwaderer, telephone interview with Capt. James
McAndrew, June 28, 1996.
156. ibid.
157. Air Force Manual143-1, 1 November 1953, "Mortuary Affairs," 27,
Accession No. 341, Entry 36, Box 13, Microfilm Reel167, National
Archives and Record Administration, College Park, Md.
158. Karl T. Pflock, "Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His
Code of Silence," Omni, Fall1995, 104.
159. Memo, Charles J. Stahl, M.D., Armed Forces Medical Examiner, to
Capt. James McAndrew, SAF/AAZD, subj: Request for Information on
Aircraft Crash Fatalities, October 13, 1995.
160. Unit history, 4036 USAF Hospital, Walker AFB, N.M., June 1956, 6,
Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
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