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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…
something similar to those words. She said the only way you can contact me
is through this APO number, and there was an APO number. It was a New
York APO number.
Q: So she'd gone to Europe or some place.
A: Then right on the bottom she says, "I'm in London." That was
it. I wrote a note, just a note, that said if you feel like it and you get time,
then I would love to know and we'll correspond. Mine came back. That was
about three or four weeks later. Mine came back.
Q: That was the one that was marked deceased?
A: Yes. It said return to sender, [addressee] deceased.
Q: Then what did you do?
A: (inaudible)
Q: You didn't try to follow up or see if there was any possible...
A No. I asked (inaudible), at the time we called her Slatts
Wilson, a big tall nurse, 6'2", 6'3", big tall skinny girl. We called her Slatts.
Everybody called her Slatts. She's the one that told me she'd heard that there
was a plane crash and she was the nurse that went down on a training mission.
She said that's strictly rumor, I don't know anything about it. That's what 1...
Q: No one's been able to tum that one up at all.
A: I guess maybe I should never even mention this. I know no
one believes this damn story. Nobody believes this story.
Q: I don't know if that's true.
A: Anyway, it was a hell of a story. I told (inaudible). I said I
told the woman, I don't want to give you her name, because I told the lady
I'd give a sacred oath and I didn't want to get involved. Well, it's been 45
years, almost 40 years, and I haven't heard anything. He said I will do it
confidentially and nobody else will have this name. Well, that's where he
broke his promise after that. I got all over him about it. I called him and
I was madder than hell. He said well, Bob Shirkey was the one that told
everybody, that he was sitting in the back of us. Bob brought Stan [Friedman]
up there when he interviewed me. He said, Bob Shirkey was the one that let
out her name. To this day, Stan Friedman (inaudible) still says he did not
put her name out. I've been on several shows, not several, but two or three
interviews, and I'm not going to mention her name. If somebody says is this
her name? I'm not going to say it is or it isn't. I told Stan ... I was madder
than hell about it, because I did give my word.
Q: There's another side to that, too, from the standpoint of
those who are trying to get some answers. By not having her name
around, it makes it easier to cross-check the stories that you get from
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