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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. 7 …Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (1995), the first Air Force work on the alleged "Roswell…
  • p. 24 …From the remaining testimony, Air Force researchers developed the following set of working hypotheses to assist…
  • p. 25 …regard both to the facts and to working hypotheses to determine if there were common threads…
  • p. 50 …Moore, a New York University graduate student working under contract for the U.S. Army Air…
  • p. 76 …165 However, since Ragsdale reportedly lived or worked in the Roswell, Artesia, and Carlsbad, N.M…
  • p. 85 …at the Ballard Funeral Home, where he worked, from the Mortuary Affairs officer at Roswell Army…
  • p. 86 …23 The nurse called Dennis later that same day at the funeral home where he worked…
  • p. 92 …In 1948, a work of fiction reportedly appeared in the Aztec (N.M.) Independent Review describing…
  • p. 94 …NCO to accompany and seem to be working with a white officer, it would be unlikely…
  • p. 95 …I was informed that she wasn't working that day. Dennis then telephoned An old girl…
  • p. 104 …145 ' It is unclear when Dennis worked at this funeral home since city and phone directories…
  • p. 124 …that at first appeared to be the work of over-active imaginations, seem possible. Ll!lSUE…
  • p. 127 …Fulgham) Fulgham recalled that upon his return to work at the Aero Medical Laboratory he received…
  • p. 168 …I also participated in the X-15 and X-20 programs and worked as a bioastronautics…
  • p. 170 …I also worked on the ~1oby Dick Project that collected meteorological data and the classified Gopher…
  • p. 171 …I also worked with Capt Kininger on Project Stargazer. I also had met several times the…
  • p. 175 …During that time I was a physiological training officer and worked in the development of early…
  • p. 176 …I later worked with Capt Kittinger on the Stargazer project and and occasionally flew aircraft with…
  • p. 180 …I worked very closely with Dr Hynek over a period of five years from 1958 to…
  • p. 184 …aspe~.,:ts of the space program and worked on the highly classiftcd t~-2 project. I…
  • p. 193 …know, sign language and that didn't work. And I don't know, for some reason…
  • p. 195 …everybody and he told them that he worked out on the plains out there and that…
  • p. 199 …Was this a guy you'd worked with before? Somebody you knew real well? A: No…
  • p. 200 …When did you first go to work for him? A: I went to work for him…
  • p. 202 …That had been worked over two or three times. Q: When you look at it looks…
  • p. 204 …When you put flame on stainless, see, I do sculpture work and all that, and I…
  • p. 205 …I worked on a hell of a lot of stuff. Q: In that tape you talked…
  • p. 207 …I knew the work station that she always worked at. She was a general nurse. They…
  • p. 209 …doesn't know, because when he was working up there was another manager, and he said…
  • p. 212 …When they were doing the writing, they were working from Stan's tape. A: Evidently. Q…
  • p. 215 …He was out working in the field and I understood that he was out on the…
  • p. 220 …But it could have been out longer than that there but see I worked in Carlsbad…
STATEMENT OF WITNESS
Place Date: 25 May 95
I, Dan D. Fulgham, Col, USAF (Ret), hereby state that James McAndrew was identified
as a Lieutenant, USAFR on this date at my place of employment and do hereby,
voluntarily and of my own free will, make the following statement. This was done
without having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influence or unlawful
inducement.
I entered the U.S. Air Force in 1952 as an aviation cadet. I flew F-84s on 100 combat
missions during the Korean war. After a tour as a flight instructor I was assigned to the
Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Patterson. I participated in both the Air Force Man in
Space program and Project Mercury. I also participated in the X-15 and X-20 programs
and worked as a bioastronautics ofticer with NASA on Gemini. During my Air Force
career, I earned both a Master's and Doctorate degree from Purdue University. I tlew a
combat tour in Southeast Asia in F-4s as a member of the 555th Tactical Fighter
Squadron and flew 133 combat missions. I retired from the Air Force in 1978 as the
Commander of the Human Resources Laboratory at Brooks AFB, TX. I am presently the
Director Of Biosciences for a research organization in San Antonio, TX.
In 1959 I volunteered for training to become a back up pilot for Capt Joe Kittenger in his
high altitude balloon projects. I tlew two missions for training purposes with Capt
Kittenger and Capt Bill Kaufman from Holloman AFB, NM in May, 1959. On the
second tlight we were practicing touch and go landings north of Roswell, NM when we
"crashed" on one of the landings. The gondola flipped over and my head was pinned to
the ground by the lip of the gondola. We managed to lift the gondola off of my head and
looked it over for damage. Capt Kittenger was bleeding from a cut on his face and I
noticed that my head seemed to be protruding outward from underneath my helmet.
Realizing I was injured, I sat down and feared I might go into shock. I was not in pain
but my entire head was throbbing and began to swell.
I then remember boarding the "chase" helicopter that was following us and tlying a short
distance to Walker AFB for medical treatment. I recall walking into the hospital and also
stopping on the front step to smoke a cigarette. I remember security personnel escorting
and questioning us to determine who we were. Security was very tight at Strategic Air
Command bases such as Walker. On occasion surprise inspection teams from SAC
headquaiters arrived in helicopters just as we did. In addition, a story of three Air Force
officers crashing in a balloon was somewhat far fetched. The security people were
convinced of our identities when they spoke with Col John P. Stapp, the Aero Medical
Laboratory Commander.
While I was at Walker my head had swelled considerably and both eyes were turning
black. Later the skin on my face turned yellow. I remember being seen by one doctor
and I do not believe any other doctors participated in my treatment. I do not recall any
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