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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. 9 …69 SECTION TWO 2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
  • p. 10 2.2 Fatal Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker AFB-1947…
  • p. 13 …Hospital Dispensary, Building 317, Walker AFB, N.M., 1954. 25. Main Gate at Walker AFB, N…
  • p. 26 …Due to the location of the sites, attention was focused on Roswell AAF (renamed Walker AFB…
  • p. 27 …h Strategic Missile Squadron in areas surrounding Walker AFB, N.M. These missiles were determined not…
  • p. 55 …space probe just prior to launch at Walker AFB, N.M. (formerly Roswell AAF). (U.S…
  • p. 91 …Nordstrom served at Walker AFB from June 1951 until June 1953.60 Records also revealed that…
  • p. 94 …hospital at Roswell AAF or Walker AFB (RoswellAAF was renamed Walker AFB in January 1948). 86
  • p. 95 …Ferrell (left), was commander of the Walker AFB hospital from 1954-1960. In this photo Ferrell…
  • p. 96 …of individuals assigned to the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB hospital indicated that Dennis'recollections of events…
  • p. 97 …Consequently, a comprehensive review of the morning reports and rosters of the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB…
  • p. 98 …Further, he did not arrive at Walker AFB until June 1951, four years after the purported…
  • p. 99 Table 2.1 Persons Described and Periods of Service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB Witness Description…
  • p. 100 2.2 Aircraft Accidents The examination of events that involved the Walker AFB hospital that may…
  • p. 101 …Table 2.3 Analysis of Air Force Aircraft Accidents by Year in the Vicinity of Walker…
  • p. 102 …Main entrance of the 4036th USAF hospital at Walker AFB, 1956. Initial identification procedures of the…
  • p. 104 …142 Finally, records revealed that due to limited facilities at the Walker AFB hospital, the autopsies…
  • p. 105 …Ferrell served at the Walker AFB hospital from 1954 until 1960. 150 It would not be…
  • p. 106 …In June 1956, the Walker AFB hospital did not have a pathologist on staff. 160 All…
  • p. 107 …the heightened state of security at the Walker AFB hospital; and, d. the shipment of a…
  • p. 108 …descended and were recovered in areas surrounding Walker AFB and Roswell. But based on the descriptions…
  • p. 109 …166 The accident occurred on May 21, 1959, 10 miles northwest of Walker AFB, on a…
  • p. 114 …184 For medical treatment, the pilots were transported by the helicopter to nearby Walker AFB. 185…
  • p. 115 …Kittinger, who has red hair, was present at the Walker AFB hospital the entire time the…
  • p. 116 …the injured balloon pilots arrived at the Walker AFB hospital, even though Project ExcELSIOR was unclassified…
  • p. 119 …the rear of an ambulance at the Walker AFB hospital also appear to be related to…
  • p. 120 …The ramp was attached to the hospital dispensary, Walker AFB Bldg. 317. 217 The other ambulances…
  • p. 121 …like broken glass," a witness' description of debris in the rear of an ambulance at Walker…
  • p. 122 …Main gate at Walker AFB, N.M., formerly Roswell AAF, as it appeared in 1954. During…
  • p. 123 …we could have been ... trying to penetrate the security."223 Walker AFB security officials were satisfied…
  • p. 126 …Although Fulgham did not require hospitalization at Walker AFB, upon his return to Holloman AFB he…
  • p. 127 …the pediatrician did not arrive at the Walker AFB hospital until 1951-four years after the…
  • p. 146 …Roster of Officers, 6th Bomb Wing, Walker AFB, N.M., December 30, 1952, "History of the…
  • p. 149 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7, 1955, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 150 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 151 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 152 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7, 1955, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 153 …Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification…
  • p. 164 …l was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
  • p. 166 …Air Force in 1957 as a flight surgeon and was assigned to Walker AFB, NM, in…
  • p. 167 At no time was there ever any involvement of the Walker hospital with UFO's or…
  • p. 168 …Security was very tight at Strategic Air Command bases such as Walker. On occasion surprise inspection…
  • p. 173 …transpm1ed the three aii·crew members to Walker AFB for medil:al attention. I n:call…
  • p. 176 …Fulgham was loaded into the helicopter and we were taken to the nearest hospital, at Walker…
  • p. 180 …When we arrived at Walker I remember that security \Vas tight as it was at all…
  • p. 182 …At Walker I remember a telephone conversation with a flight surgeon \Vho told me to "go…
  • p. 186 …I was on active duty in the US Air Force and stationed at Walker AFB, Roswell…
  • p. 231 …and Larry" 19 VoYAGER-MARS 44 w Walker AFB, N.M. 15, 17, 45, 83, 86…
Slattery replaced Goddard as the Chief Nurse and was the only
female captain assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital. Interviews of persons
with longtime professional and personal associations with Slattery, revealed
that she was known by the unusual nickname of Slatts. 88 Additionally, former
associates of Slattery interviewed for this report, recalled that she was
the only Air Force nurse that had ever been known as Slatts. 89 Persons
interviewed were Air Force nurses who retired in the 1960s, each with more
than 20 years of service, including retired Air Force Col. Ethel Kovatch-
Scott, who served as Chief Nurse of the Air Force from 1963 to 1965.
Upon review of Slattery's personnel file it was learned that she was
only 5'3" tall and therefore was most likely not the 6'2" or 6'3" "tall skinny"
nurse described. 90 This discrepancy in physical description and the fact that
she did not arrive at Roswell AAF until nearly one month after Dennis claims
he spoke to her, led to the conclusion that perhaps he confused Slattery with
some other tall thin nurse, possibly named Wilson, who was stationed at the
Roswell AAF or Walker AFB hospital at some other time.
Consequently, a comprehensive review of the morning reports
and rosters of the Roswell AAF/Walker AFB hospital revealed that only
one nurse named Wilson had ever served there and she did not arrive until
February 1956. 91 * Capt. Idabelle Miller, who became Maj. Idabelle Wilson
in 1958 due to marriage and a promotion, was assigned to the Walker AFB
hospital from February 1956 until May 1960.92
Upon review of Maj. Wilson's personnel file, it was learned that
she was 5'9" tall and thin. Also, she served as the Head Nurse of the surgical
ward at the Walker AFB hospitat93 Therefore, Wilson's physical attributes,
tall and thin, and position as Head Nurse matched Dennis' recollections of
"Captain Wilson." When contacted by Air Force researchers, Wilson stated
she had no recollection of Dennis, of ever having conversations with him, any
of the events he described, or of a nurse that was missing. 94 She also made
it abundantly clear that as an Air Force officer and medical professional she
would not spread a rumor of a plane crash, as Dennis alleged "Captain
Wilson" did in conversations with him. 95
Results of Missing Nurse and
Pediatrician Research
Examination of the missing nurse and the pediatrician stories, and
other facts established by research, provide a foundation for further analysis
to determine what actual event(s), if any, were responsible for these claims.
Based on information developed, it appears this witness may be mistaken in
*Records were also searched for names similar to Wilson. Three nurses stationed at Roswell
AAF/Walker AFB were identified; Martha Wasem, Carol Williams, and Chalma Walker. None of
these nurses phyisical descriptions or personal/professional circumstances were similar to the
descriptions of "Captain Wilson" described by the witness.
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