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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. 13 …Fulgham at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. 29. Maj. Dan D. Fulgham, James Lovell, Hilary Ray, and…
  • p. 23 …Roswell AAF to another facility, usually Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (or a host of other facilities…
  • p. 33 …In 1959, 150 dummies were dropped by aircraft over Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (possibly accounting for…
  • p. 42 …and later the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio, Stapp won support for the…
  • p. 86 …was taken to "Wright Field" (now Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio). 29 The nurse described the little…
  • p. 87 …were transported to what is now Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio. c. The bluish-purplish wreckage that…
  • p. 99 …than normal which was transported to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio; d. that may have involved a…
  • p. 102 …126 On the day following the crash, an identification specialist from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio arrived…
  • p. 105 …24-hour standby basis, responded from Wright- Patterson AFB to the location of an incident. 152…
  • p. 107 …the shipment of a body with a large head to Wright- Patterson AFB. Based on previous…
  • p. 111 …Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, appointed a new project officer for Project…
  • p. 112 …to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB. During the third week of May 1959…
  • p. 113 …Kaufman, pilots and Aero Medical Research officers from Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio were assigned temporary duty…
  • p. 114 …Stapp, Aero Medical Laboratory commander at Wright-Patterson AFB (the pilots and Project ExcELSIOR were assigned…
  • p. 123 …of the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright- Patterson AFB, Ohio. ================a~~F=============== The "Red-headed Captain…
  • p. 125 …Fulgham at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio several days after the balloon accident with a "traumatic hematoma…
  • p. 126 "Bodies" with Large Heads and Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio UFO theorists contend that the U.S…
  • p. 132 …Wheeler, High Altitude Bailouts, MCREXD-695-66M (Wright-Patterson AFB, OH: USAF Air Materiel Command, September…
  • p. 133 …Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB…
  • p. 135 …Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB…
  • p. 157 …Phenomena Branch, December 6, 1965, National Air Intelligence Center historical files, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH. 153
  • p. 168 …to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Patterson. I participated in both the Air Force Man…
  • p. 169 …Several days later I returned to Wright Patterson with Capt Kittenger and Capt Kaufman. My wife…
  • p. 175 …During my third assignment at Wright Patterson, I volunteered, along with Capt Dan Fulgham, to be…
  • p. 176 …Three days later, on Sunday, Kittinger, Fulgham and I returned to Wright Patterson via a special…
  • p. 177 …Many scientific accomplishments came out of the various laboratories at Wright Patterson but I am unaware…
  • p. 178 …at \\'tight-Patterson . \FB. OH. The object of the Holloman tests were to study the free…
  • p. 179 …they were sent to Holloman tfom \\'right-Patterson for training on a temporary duty basis. On…
  • p. 180 …I made an·angements for all of us to tly to Wright-Patterson on a C…
  • p. 184 …before being reassigned to the . \ero \ kdical Laboratory at Wright Patterson. I rctinxl in trom the…
  • p. 223 …and Patterson, Jack H. Recovery of Parachute-Borne Packages by Helicopter, TDR 62-6, 1962. Flight…
I participated in <Jt least l\VO dummy recoveries. The meteorologist from the Balloon
Branch. Duke C'rildcnberg. would determine the best place to laun~h the balloons
depending on the prevailing weather conditions. Duke also predicted. \Vith considerable
accuracy. \Vhcrc the dummies would impact. I specifically recall a dummy I recovered ncar
the .Tornada test range. bet\vcen T.easburg and Organ. !'J!vL During this recovery I drove
a \\capons canier and I was only able to locate one of the dummies. I never found out
what happened to the other one. ·n1e next recovery I remember was on a ranch just
southwest of Ros\vcll. We were given directions to the area by the balloon branch
personnel \Vho had been contacted by a rancher. The equipment had reward notices taped
to them to aid in recovery. We went to the Smith ranch. I remember the name because I
\vent to :\ic,,.- ~Iexico A&~J \Vith the rancher. I kne\'v him as Smitty. \re sean;hed that day
ti·om horseback ;md could not 1ind the dummies. The toli()\Ving day \Ve resumed our
search from horseback and again could not find the dummies. I also recall that Smitty
asked us f()r some of the parachute material so he could make a shit1. We dropped many
dummies hom the balloons and I knmv many were not immediately recovered. but most
\Vere.
I served for n·venty five years in the Air Force and most of those years wen; in the aero
medical fid'l. I participated in tht: space program and the highly classified early stages of
c·-2 program. Never duting this time \Vere "alitms" or "flying saucers" a pat1 of any
project. Then: were, hmvever. countless achievements by the Air Force in aerospace
medicine that \Vere the result of dedicated scientific research. ft seems likdy to me that
someone could have mistaken our anthropomorphic dummies for something that they \Vere
not.
I am not part of any conspiracy to withhold or pmvide misleading in1ormation to the
L"nited States Government or the American public. There is no classified intom1ation that
I am vvithholding related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened by t:.S.
Government persons concerning refraining from talking about this matter.
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