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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. 11 …1955 Time Magazine Depicting Lt. Col. John P. Stapp. 35. Anthropomorphic Dummy with Missing Fingers. 36…
  • p. 87 …32 However, some time later Dennis received a letter from the nurse that indicated she was…
  • p. 89 2.1 The "Missing" Nurse and the Pediatrician To illustrate the errors in this account and…
  • p. 91 …An additional similarity between Fanton and the "missing nurse" is that her personnel record indicated that…
  • p. 94 …Another possible indication that he recalled events from a different time was the description of an…
  • p. 95 …to "Captain Wilson" several times in reference to the alleged missing nurse. 79 He claims that…
  • p. 97 …95 Results of Missing Nurse and Pediatrician Research Examination of the missing nurse and the pediatrician…
  • p. 98 some of his statements, especially regarding the time frame of these events. The following facts have…
  • p. 99 …1954- June 1960 With the establishment of a possible time frame, research efforts paralleled the previous…
  • p. 103 …The large balloon, which matched eyewitnesses' descriptions at the time, was released the previous day, and…
  • p. 105 …However, neither recalled that a nurse was missing or any of the other activities as described…
2.1
The "Missing" Nurse and
the Pediatrician
To illustrate the errors in this account and to identify actual
events, the following section will examine the accounts of the missing
nurse and the unidentified pediatrician. Both of these persons were
allegedly present at the Roswell AAF hospital when the events described
by the witness occurred.
The "Missing" Nurse
Dennis recalled that the nurse was quickly and suspiciously
shipped out either the same day or the day after he met with her in the
Roswell AAF Officers' Club. If this allegation was true, it certainly
seemed unusual-and verifiable. Therefore, the morning reports, the
certified daily personnel accounting records required to be kept by all
Army Air Forces units at that time, were obtained and reviewed. These
reports did not indicate that a nurse or any other person was reassigned on
the days alleged, July 8 or July 9, 1947. 40 The morning reports of the
427th Army Air Forces Base Unit (AAFBU) Squadron "M," the unit that
all the medical personnel at Roswell AAF were assigned in July 1947, did
not indicate a sudden or overseas transfer of a nurse or any other person.
Records indicated that one nurse was reassigned on July 23, 1947, over
two weeks after the purported events described by Dennis. 41 That nurse
was transferred by normal personnel rotation procedures to Ft. Worth
AAF (now Carswell AFB ), Texas, where she remained on active duty
until March 1949.42 In fact, the Squadron "M" morning reports revealed
the strength of the Army Nurse Corps (ANC) at Roswell AAF for July 1947
was only five nurses. Of these five nurses none were transferred overseas
or killed in a plane crash-the "rumored" fate of the missing nurse. 43
This review of the hospital morning reports also indicated that
the name of the missing nurse provided by the witness was inaccurate.
The witness stated in several interviews that he believed the nurse's name
was Naomi Maria Selff. 44 A comprehensive search of morning reports
and rosters from the Roswell AAF Station Hospital indicated that no
person by this name, or a similar name, had ever served there. This
finding was supported by a search of personnel records at the National
Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in St. Louis, Mo., a part of the
National Archives and Record Administration. NPRC is the depository
for all U.S. military personnel records. The search at NPRC also did not
find a record that a person named Naomi Maria Selff had ever served in
any branch of the U.S. Armed Forces.
These findings were consistent with previous efforts of several
pro-UFO researchers who have also attempted to locate this nurse or
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