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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. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB-1947…
  • p. 14 …Air Force records from 1947 did not yield information that even suggested the 1947 "Roswell" events…
  • p. 15 …earthly in origin) did not occur in 1947. It appears that UFO proponents have failed to…
  • p. 17 …3 The 1994 Air Force report determined that project MoGUL was responsible for the 1947 events…
  • p. 18 …An illustration of a Project MoGUL balloon train similar to one found on a ranch 75…
  • p. 19 …in June 1947. When compared to a standard radar target used by project MoGuL, it is…
  • p. 20 …This account from the July 9, 1947 Roswell Daily Record, described the materials "tinfoil, paper, rubber…
  • p. 21 …technology for Project MOGUL. Moore launched the balloon train on June 4, 1947, that when combined…
  • p. 22 …landing site of a Project MoGUL balloon train in June 1947. 10 The MoGUL landing site…
  • p. 23 …July, 1947- in order to "fit" with the rest of the story. The actual Project MoGuL…
  • p. 24 …Roswell area in July 1947. Examination of research and development projects, aircraft crashes, errant missiles and…
  • p. 50 …Polyethylene balloons, first produced in 1947 for Project MoGuL, are still widely used today for a…
  • p. 52 …AFB which began with the Project MoGUL flights in June 1947, covered a wide spectrum of…
  • p. 64 …Both of these projects employed anthropomorphic dummies flown by high altitude balloons and appeared to satisfy…
  • p. 87 …9, 1947. These dates coincide with an actual event: the retrieval of experimental Project MoouL research…
  • p. 131 …Don Berliner, A Rebuttal of the Air Force Project Mogul Explanation for the 1947 Roswell, New…
  • p. 154 …1947-1958), 11. 165. ibid., and Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request- Project…
  • p. 157 …Air Force Missile Development Center FORM 597, Schedule Request- Project 7222/4.2- "Manned Gondola Flight…
  • p. 224 --. Summary Report Project MoBY DicK: Covered Wagon Balloon Launcher Development and Test Results, HDT-21, 1952…
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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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