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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. 47 …N.M., to test components of the NASA VIKING space probe. (photo by Ole Jorgeson) 1…
  • p. 51 …anthropomorphic dummies to sophisticated satellite components and NASA interplanetary space probes. Many of these payloads, some…
  • p. 52 …Instrument testing of atmospheric entry vehicles for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) space probes…
  • p. 54 …Examples of unusual payloads, not likely to be associated with balloons, were qualification trials of NASA…
  • p. 55 …53. (Above Left) The aeroshell of a NASA VoYAGER- MARS space probe just prior to launch…
  • p. 56 …97 The tethered balloon and the NASA space probes are just two examples of the uncommon…
  • p. 68 …HIGH DIVE/EXCELSIOR, were used to test NASAs APOLLO spacecraft three-man couch at Holloman AFB…
  • p. 110 …Technology developed for MISS was transferred to NASA in 1959 and became part of Project MERCURY…
  • p. 111 …With the completion of Project STARGAZER and the success of NASA's Project MERCURY space flights…
  • p. 117 …space program with the experience gained from MAN HIGH being incorporated in NASA's Project MERCURY…
  • p. 126 …Shown with Fulgham (from left) are NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, NASA project engineer Hilary Ray, and…
  • p. 132 …Chronology, Report No. SP4001 (Wash. D.C.: NASA, 1963) 2-3, and Lloyd Malian, Men, Rockets…
  • p. 168 …and worked as a bioastronautics ofticer with NASA on Gemini. During my Air Force career, I…
  • p. 172 …Another project \Vith \vhich I was involved, \vas the NASA Voyager and Viking Projects. These space…
  • p. 174 …summer of 1972 to support this project. NASA personnd prepared the spacecraft for launch from the…
  • p. 229 …museum 3, 75 mystery witness 75 N NASA 37, 41, 44-46, 59, 103, 111, 120…
On one occasion northwest of Roswell, a local woman
unfamiliar with the test activities arrived at a dummy landing site
prior to the arrival of the recovery personnel. 68 The woman saw
what appeared to be a human embedded head first in a snowbank and
became hysterical. The woman screamed, "He's dead!, he's dead!" 69
It now appeared that anthropomorphic dummies dropped
by high altitude balloons satisfied the requirements of the research
profile. However, the review of high altitude balloon operations
revealed what appeared to be explanations for some other sightings
of odd objects in the deserts and skies of New Mexico.
WADC TECHNICAL REPORT 57477 (II)
WAOO TECHNICAL REPORT 57-477
PART I.
A8TIA DOCUMENT No. AD 1309615
HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON DUMMY DROPS HIGH ALTITUDE BALLOON DUMMY DROPS
PART I. THE UNSTAIIU%ED DUMMY OIOPS II: THE STAIJUZED DUMMY DROPS
RAYMOND A. MADSON, 1ST/LT, USAF
LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS LABORATORY
AEROSPACE MEDICAL LABORATORY
RAY~OND A. MADSON, 1ST IX, USAP
ABRO MBDICAL LABORATORY
AUGUST 1961
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AERONAUTICAL SYSTEMS DIVISION
WRIGHT Al'.R OEVELOPMENT CENTER AIR FORCE SYSTEMS COMMAND
UNITED STATES AIR FORCE
WRIGHT-PATIERSON AIR FORCE BASE, OHIO
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Fig. 41. For the first 10
balloon flights, dummies
were placed in insulation
bags to protect temperature-
sensitive equipment.
These bags may have been
described by at least one
witness as "body bags" used
to recover alien victims from
the crash of a flying saucer.
(U.S. Air Force photo)
Figs. 42 & 43. These reports
detailed the methods and
procedures used for the
dummy tests. They may be
obtained from the National
Technical Information Service
(NTIS), Springfield, Va.
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