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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. 36 …Simons (MC), a feature article in National Geographic, and cover stories in Life, Collier's, Popular…
  • p. 37 …Clockwise from top left, Time, September 12, 1955; Life, August 29, 1960; Popular Mechanics Magazine, (center…
  • p. 46 …MADSON, 1ST/LT, USAF LIFE SUPPORT SYSTEMS LABORATORY AEROSPACE MEDICAL LABORATORY RAY~OND A. MADSON, 1ST…
  • p. 65 …said that he was easily confused" and "memories of his life were jumbled and reordered." 56
  • p. 116 …to maintain his composure in difficult, often life threatening, situations. He faced these situations as a…
  • p. 129 …With his parachute wrapped around his neck and body and hopelessly out of control, his life…
  • p. 134 …854-873, "Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth," Life 49, no. 9 (August…
  • p. 154 …DD Form 613, R&D Progress Card, Project 7164, "Physiology of Flight," Task 71840, "Life Supporting…
  • p. 184 …Thi.! A.kkrson dummy had t:1cial features th~1t \Ven; not life-like and cars…
  • p. 196 …want to spend the rest of their life in prison they would never say anything about…
  • p. 203 …Her whole thing in life was, from the day she was born, her life was planned…
  • p. 212 …I've got another life besides UFOs. But anyway, Stan Friedman's story is pretty well…
  • p. 228 …111 legal claims 58 Life magazine 26-27 lights, strobe 41 "little men" 84-85 livestock…
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On the Threshold of Space
In 1956, Twentieth Century Fox released On the Threshold of Space,
a full-length motion picture based on Air Force aero medical projects
conducted at Holloman AFB, N.M. Starring Guy Madison, John Hodiak,
and Dean Jagger, this drama chronicled the high altitude balloon experiments
of projects HIGH DivE/ExcELSIOR and the high-speed track studies conducted
by Col. John P. Stapp. Filmed on location at Holloman AFB, Air Force
personnel, high altitude balloons, aircraft, vehicles, and other equipment,
including the actual anthropomorphic dummies responsible for sightings of
aliens, were used in the making of this film.
In an ironic twist, in 1990 the television program Unsolved Mysteries,
featured a segment on the Roswell Incident. The program, hosted by actor
Robert Stack, depicted a dramatized version of the claims of "aliens," space
ships and mysterious government recovery crews. Interestingly, a review
of newspapers from 1956 announcing the Hollywood premiere of On the
Threshold of Space, listed Stack among the persons scheduled to attend this
star-studded event. 70
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Fig. 45. Lobby card of the
1956 Twentieth Century Fox
release, On the Threshold of
Space starring Guy Madison
(seated) and Martin Milner
(right).

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