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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.
“Works”32 pages
- 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…
Witness Description
40. "tankers, like, maybe had
fuel or water in 'em" 205
Anderson
41. "a military car"206
Anderson
42. "' 47 Ford car" 207
Ragsdale
43. "there was a jeep that was
pulling a trailer with a motor on
it, like a generator."208
Anderson
Aircraft
44. "observation aircraft...high
winged aircraft"209
Anderson
45. "C-47 sittin there"[on the
road] 2w
Anderson
Procedures
46. "The federal government
could have been doing
something because they didn't
want anyone to know what this
was ... they was using dummies
in those damned things ... they
could use remote control" 211
Ragsdale
47. "they took everybody's
name and everything"212
Anderson
48. "they cleaned everything all
up .. .I mean they cleaned
everything" 213
Ragsdale
73
Air Force
Equipment/Procedure
reference to M-49 fuel trucks
used to refuel aircraft or
helium trailer used to inflate
balloon (figs. 23, 70, 80, 81).
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.. civilia:o: cars were.pften t\sed
fotha:l.~ooil teco:ver:ies.:and< ·
· htulicbe$(Ffg; 71); ~
Reference to 1-ton trailer and
MB-19 15 Kilowatt diesel
generator that were used at
balloon launch and recovery
locations (fig. 71 ).
Reference to an L-20
aircraft, primary "chase"
aircraft used for balloon
recovery in the mid 1950s
(fig. 77).
C-4 7 aircraft were often
used on dummy launch and
recovery operations (fig. 78).
Reference to balloon borne
anthropomorphic dummies
that were dropped by remote
control by balloon controllers
at Holloman AFB
Procedure used by balloon
Branch to ensure payment
of $25 reward and to settle
claims of property damage.
Balloon Branch personnel
were required to remove as
much debris as possible from
balloon and payload landing
areas to avoid complaints and
legal actions.
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