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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. 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…
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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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