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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. 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…
Another project I \Vas involved \Vith \Vas the Air Force investigations of l 'FOs. Project
Bluebook. Since I was a meteorologist and amateur astronomer I evaluated, stm1ing in
195 L local sightings of UFOs. :-.Jew 1v1exico had alot of sightings because of the good
visibility and the many experimental projects of the White Sands PrO\·ing Grounds. Dming
my time on Project Bluebook there \Vasn 't any sightings that we could not explain.
~evet1heless popular literature still refers to some of these sightings as unexplained.
Another project \Vith \vhich I was involved, \vas the NASA Voyager and Viking Projects.
These space vehicles were tested by launching them trom our balloons at extremely high
altitude to simulate the atmosphere of Venus and \1ars. To utilize the instmmentation on
the \.Vhite Sands l\;fissile Range I elected to launch the balloons and attached space vehicles
from the Rosw·ell lndlL<>trial Air Center, formerly the Rosv,:ell Army Aidield. The
Holloman Balloon Branch made approximately eight launches of these two vehicles from
Roswell. In appearance the Viking and Voyager probes could be mistaken tor a 11ying
saucer. They \Vere both unclassified highly publicized projects and I do not recall getting
any UFO reports for these flights. I bcJjeve one of these probes is on display at White
Sands :Vlissilc Range and its known as the "flying saucer".
I am not part of any conspiracy to \Vithhold or prO\·ide misleading infmmation to the
United States Govemment or the American public. There is no classified information th<lt
I am withholding related to this inquiry and 1 have never been threatened by C. S.
Go\lernmcnt persons concerning refraining from talking ahout this matter.
SIGNED:
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Bernard D. Gildcnberg, GS-14 (Ret) 7
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Subscribed and sworn before me. an
individual authorized to admiillster
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Ja~es McAndrew, 1st Lt. CS:\FR

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