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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.
“Works”32 pages
- 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…
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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