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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…
some of his statements, especially regarding the time frame of these events.
The following facts have been established:
a. The only physician who ever relocated to Farmington, N.M.,
following his military service at Roswell AAF/Walker AFB was
the former Chief of Pediatric Services at the Walker AFB hospital,
the former Capt. Frank B. Nordstrom. Further, he did not arrive
at Walker AFB until June 1951, four years after the purported
Roswell Incident, has no recollection of Dennis, the statements
Dennis attributes to him, or of any actual events that explain his
account.
b. The only nurse ever assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital
(subsequently renamed Walker AFB) named Wilson, was Idabelle
Wilson. She served at the Walker AFB hospital from 1956 until
1960 and had no recollection of ever meeting or speaking with
Dennis or any of the activities he described.
c. Captain Lucille C. Slattery, the only Air Force nurse ever
known by the distinctive nickname "Slatts," was stationed at the
Roswell AAF hospital. However, she did not arrive until August 7,
1947. This was one month after the Roswell Incident, making it
improbable that Dennis spoke with her in early July 1947.
d. There is no record that a nurse named Naomi Maria Selff, was
ever assigned to Roswell AAF, Walker AFB, or was ever a member
of the U.S. military.
e. All nurses assigned to the Roswell AAF hospital in July 1947,
have been accounted for, thereby eliminating any possibility that
there was ever a missing nurse.
Since actual Air Force members who served at Roswell AAF/
Walker AFB hospital were described in this account, the next step was
to determine if actual events that occurred at the hospital were possibly
the source of this story. As stated earlier in this report, a thorough
examination of both classified and unclassified records from 194 7
revealed no Army Air Forces or U.S. Air Force activities that explained
the alleged events. Therefore records were reviewed from other time
periods, based on personnel records of individuals believed to have been
identified. These persons and the periods when they were assigned to
Roswell AAF/Walker AFB are listed in Table 2.1.
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