The Roswell Report: Case Closed

“Holloman AFB”60+ pages

• p. 11 …Target Balloon Launch Near Holloman AFB, N.M. 50. DiscovERER Nosecone Rigged for High Altitude Balloon…
• p. 12 …57. "Vee" Balloon at Holloman AFB, N.M. 58. Current Members of the Holloman AFB Balloon…
• p. 13 …Nenninger Balloon Launch Facility at Holloman AFB, N.M. 33. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. Following…
• p. 20 …Gildenberg, retired Holloman AFB Balloon Branch Physical Science Administrator and Meteorologist, came forward with pertinent information…
• p. 21 …engineer, and physical science administrator for the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch from 1951-1981. Gildenberg actively…
• p. 26 …AAF (renamed Walker AFB in 1948), White Sands Missile Range and Holloman AFB, N.M. The…
• p. 27 …Missiles (left) and drones (right) under development at Holloman AFB, N.M. were determined not to…
• p. 28 …unpredictable and did not usually remain over Holloman AFB or White Sands Missile Range. 28 Many…
• p. 36 …and other aero medical projects conducted at Holloman AFB also resulted in a 1956 Twentieth Century…
• p. 37 …Contemporary magazines that featured experiments at Holloman AFB, N.M. Clockwise from top left, Time, September…
• p. 40 …52 Recoveries of the test dummies were accomplished by personnel from the Holloman AFB Balloon BranchY…
• p. 41 …at Muroc (now Edwards AFB), Calif., 61 and later at Holloman AFB, N.M. Developments from…
• p. 42 …Air Force Aeromedical Field Laboratory at Holloman AFB, N.M. and later the Aero Medical Laboratory…
• p. 45 …intended use, were the methods used by Holloman AFB personnel to transport them. The dummies were…
• p. 47 …Air Force research organizations at Holloman AFB, N.M., have launched and recovered approximately 2,500…
• p. 48 …Filmed on location at Holloman AFB, Air Force personnel, high altitude balloons, aircraft, vehicles, and other…
• p. 51 …74 During this period, polyethylene balloons launched from Holloman AFB, generated flying saucer reports on nearly…
• p. 52 …Research projects of the late 1940's and 1950's conducted at Holloman AFB which began…
• p. 53 …Air Force high altitude balloons at Holloman AFB were determined to be the most expedient method…
• p. 54 …92 This first successful mission of an American satellite, made possible in part by Holloman AFB…
• p. 55 …The Holloman Balloon Branch, in addition to high altitude research activities, also conducted low altitude tethered…
• p. 56 …57. (Right) A tethered "Vee" balloon shown here at Holloman AFB, N.M. in March 1965…
• p. 57 …Air Force photo) balloon launch facility at Holloman AFB, U.S. Air Force balloon crews have…
• p. 59 …Air Force scientific study and were given a telephone number at Holloman AFB if they required…
• p. 62 …Examples of unusual payloads flown by Air Force high altitude balloons at Holloman AFB, N.M…
• p. 63 …Army communications payload was flown at Holloman AFB, N.M. on September 30, 1976. (U.S…
• p. 68 …NASAs APOLLO spacecraft three-man couch at Holloman AFB, N.M. in 1965. (U.S. Air…
• p. 70 …aircraft, equipment, and procedures used by the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch to launch and recover anthropomorphic…
• p. 72 …In this publicity photo from On the Threshold of Space, Air Force members at Holloman AFB…
• p. 73 …Air Force L-20 aircraft used extensively by Holloman AFB crews to track and recover anthropomorphic…
• p. 74 …The Holloman AFB Balloon Branch modified these vehicles in 1953, ruling out the possibility that the…
• p. 82 …by remote control by balloon controllers at Holloman AFB Procedure used by balloon Branch to ensure…
• p. 109 …164 Records of the training flights indicated that some of these were conducted at Holloman AFB…
• p. 110 …Kittinger, Jr., standing beside the EXCELSIOR gondola at Holloman AFB, N.M. On his third and…
• p. 112 …Additionally, two training flights at Holloman AFB also resulted in injuries to pilots. These injuries prompted…
• p. 113 …850 at Holloman AFB. 176 Near the end of another successful training mission with the same…
• p. 114 …The balloon training missions flown from Holloman AFB, N.M. in May 1959, were made in…
• p. 117 …In 1953, Kittinger received an assignment as a test pilot to Holloman AFB, N.M. While…
• p. 119 …The other ambulance had been converted by the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch and served as a…
• p. 120 …The ramp was attached to the hospital dispensary, Walker AFB Bldg. 317. 217 The other ambulances…
• p. 124 …familiar with balloon operations at Holloman AFB, visiting the Holloman Balloon Branch several times. 227 Interestingly…
• p. 125 …to Wright- Patterson AFB aboard a specially arranged flight from Holloman AFB, N.M. (photo collection…
• p. 126 …Although Fulgham did not require hospitalization at Walker AFB, upon his return to Holloman AFB he…
• p. 129 …Plaque placed at Holloman AFB honoring three Balloon Branch members killed during a high altitude balloon…
• p. 133 …Preliminary Survey of the Aft Facing Seated Position, Air Force Technical Report 5915, (Wright Patterson AFB…
• p. 134 …1947-1958 (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development Command, 1958) (hereafter Contributions of Balloon Operations…
• p. 136 …Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch, October 12, 1956- March 14, 1961. 88. Flight Summary, DrscovERER…
• p. 137 …Gildenberg, Meteorologist, Holloman AFB Balloon Branch., October 12, 1956- March 14, 1961; "Summary of Balloon Flights…
• p. 140 …HADC-TN-54-3 (Holloman AFB, NM: Holloman Air Development Center, March 1954), 7. 157. Recollections…
• p. 154 …Simons, MAN HIGH II, Air Force Missile Development Center, Holloman AFB, N.M., AFMDC-TR-59…
• p. 161 High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Number Date Launch Site Landing Site 6/23/54 Holloman AFB…
• p. 162 Number Date Launch Site Landing Site 24 8/21156 Holloman AFB, N.M. Holloman AFB, N…
• p. 166 …pilots and he wanted them returned to Holloman AFB as quickly as possible. The hospital was…
• p. 168 …Capt Kittenger and Capt Bill Kaufman from Holloman AFB, NM in May, 1959. On the second…
• p. 170 …Following graduation I was hired by the Air Force at Holloman AFB and \Vorked continuously as…
• p. 171 …The balloon was launched around midnight fl'om behind the Balloon Branch at Holloman AFB. I…
• p. 173 …I completed three tours at the Balloon Bram.:h at Holloman AFB, NlVL I rdired fi…
• p. 174 …them w·ith a telephone number at Holloman AFB if they wanted to r~port any…
• p. 175 …of the Aero Medical Field Laboratory at Holloman AFB, NM. During my third assignment at Wright…
• p. 176 …When the medical personnel were finished treating Fulgham, all three of us returned to Holloman AFB…