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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Chapter 43: Notes - Section Two
By James McAndrew
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A government investigation compiles archival records, witness statements, technical analyses, and interviews to determine the origin of alleged flying saucer debris and reports of bodies in rural New Mexico. The report examines purported crash sites, hospital accounts, and Air Force high-altitude projects, comparing witness testimony to documented balloon tests and dummy-drop operations such as Mogul, High Dive, and Excelsior. It concludes that recovered material and related accounts are consistent with military balloon operations and routine aircraft incidents rather than extraterrestrial vehicles, and it includes appendices presenting launch and landing tables, signed statements, interview transcripts, and a selected bibliography.

Notes - Section Two

1. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 103.
2. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 117, 120, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992, 18–19.
3. Video, Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview (Washington, D.C.: Fund for UFO Research, 1993) (hereafter Recollections of Roswell, Part II).
4. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
5. ibid.
6. ibid.
7. ibid.
8. ibid., and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992, and Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 103.
9. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 103.
10. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
11. ibid.
12. ibid.
13. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 120, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
14. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 103.
15. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
16. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 117.
17. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
18. ibid.
19. ibid.
20. ibid.
21. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Stanton T. Friedman, August 5, 1989.
22. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
23. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
24. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
25. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
26. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
27. ibid.
28. ibid.
29. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 119, and Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 105.
30. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
31. ibid.
32. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
33. ibid.
34. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 105, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
35. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 105.
36. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Stanton T. Friedman, August 5, 1989.
37. ibid.
38. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 119.
39. Headquarters United States Air Force, The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1995), Attachment 32, “Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings by 1st Lt. James McAndrew”.
40. 427th AAFBU Sq “M” Morning Reports, July 8–9, 1947, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
41. Personnel record of 1st Lt. Angele A. (LaRue) Thessing, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
42. ibid.
43. Personnel records of Capt. Joyce Goddard, 1st Lt. Rosemary J. Brown, 1st Lt. Eileen M. Fanton, 1st Lt. Angele A. LaRue, 1st Lt. Claudia Uebele, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
44. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 132, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Stanton T. Friedman, August 5, 1989.
45. Paul McCarthy, “The Case of the Vanishing Nurses,” Omni, Fall 1995, 107–114.
46. WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
47. DD Form 214, “Armed Forces of the United States Report of Transfer or Discharge”, April 30, 1958, Personnel file of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
48. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 132.
49. WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” and WD AGO FORM 66-3, “AAF Medical Dep’t Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
50. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
51. WD AGO FORM 66-3, “AAF Medical Dep’t Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
52. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 104 and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992, 11, 15.
53. WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
54. ibid.
55. WD MD FORM 55A, “Clinical Record Brief,” September 5, 1947, and WD AGO FORM 8-38, “Special Examination or Additional Data,” September 11, 1947, Personnel Record of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
56. ibid, and Physical Examination Board Proceedings, Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, August 24, 1955, Personnel Record of Capt. Eileen M. Fanton, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
57. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Stanton T. Friedman, August 5, 1989, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
58. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Stanton T. Friedman, August 5, 1989.
59. ibid.
60. Roster of Officers, 6th Bomb Wing, Walker AFB, N.M., December 30, 1952, “History of the 6th Bomb Wing, December 1952,” Air Force Historical Research Center, Maxwell AFB, AL.
61. ibid.
62. Dr. Frank B. Nordstrom, interview with Capt. James McAndrew, April 25, 1996, and Dr. Frank B. Nordstrom, Signed Sworn Statement, April 25, 1996.
63. Charles E. Clouthier, Signed Sworn Statement, April 26, 1996.
64. ibid.
65. J.P. Cahn, “Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Green Men,” True 31, No. 184, (September 1952), 19.
66. ibid., 103.
67. ibid., 19.
68. J.P. Cahn, “Flying Saucer Swindlers,” True 36, No. 231, (August 1956), 36.
69. ibid., 36.
70. J.P. Cahn, “Flying Saucers and the Mysterious Little Green Men,” True 31, No. 184, (September 1952), 110.
71. ibid.
72. “4 Rank Titles Change,” Air Force Times, March 29, 1952, 1, 22.
73. Alan L. Gropman, The Air Force Integrates, 1945–1964 (Washington, D.C.: Office of Air Force History, 1985), 243.
74. Don Berliner and Stanton T. Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 117.
75. WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” and AF FORM 11, “Officer Military Record,” Personnel Record of Col. Lee F. Ferrell, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
76. ibid.
77. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 105, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
78. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 105.
79. Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 105, and W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
80. W. Glenn Dennis, interview with Karl T. Pflock, November 2, 1992.
81. ibid.
82. ibid.
83. 427th AAFBU Sq. “M” Morning Reports, July 1–31, 1947, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
84. WD AGO FORM 1, “Morning Report,” 427th AAFBU Sq. “M,” April 1, 1947 through October 1, 1947, and WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Joyce Goddard, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
85. WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Joyce Goddard, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
86. WD AGO FORM 1, “Morning Report,” 427th AAFBU, Sq. “M,” August 7, 1947, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
87. ibid., and WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Lucille C. Slattery, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
88. Ethel Kovatch-Scott, Col., USAF (Ret), telephone interview with Capt. James McAndrew, May 5, 1995 and July 3, 1996, and Mary Hoadley, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret), telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 5, 1995, and Mary L. Wiggins, Maj., USAF (Ret), telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 5, 1995.
89. ibid.
90. WD AGO FORM 66, “Officer’s Qualification Record,” Personnel Record of Capt. Lucille C. Slattery, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
91. WD AGO FORM 1, “Morning Report,” 427th AAFBU, Sq. “M,” 509th Station Medical Group, 509th Medical Group, 509th Medical Squadron, January 1947 through February 1952, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo. and Rosters of Officers, 509th Bomb Wing- February 1952 through July 1958, 6th Bomb Wing- February 1952 through March 1967, and AF FORM 11, “Officer Military Record,” Personnel Record of Maj. Idabelle M. Wilson, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
92. AF FORM 11, “Officer Military Record,” Personnel Record of Maj. Idabelle M. Wilson, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
93. ibid.
94. Idabelle M. Wilson, Maj., USAF, (Ret), telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, April 28, 1995.
95. ibid.
96. Memo: Jack A. Comstock, Maj. (MC), Surgeon, 509th Station Medical Group, to Major Robert W. Schick, Investigating Officer, Headquarters, USAF, subj: Investigation of B-29 Crash, 18 August 1948, Aircraft Accident No. 48-8-12, Aircraft #44-86383, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL. and WD AGO Form 8-33, “Clinical Record Brief,” 12 August 1948, Personnel records of Air Force members, service numbers AF 18041408 and AF 16191866, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
97. ibid.
98. ibid.
99. WD AGO Form 8-33, “Clinical Record Brief,” 16 May 1949, Personnel records of Air Force members, service numbers AO 827137 and AF 42050093, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
100. WD AGO Form 5-4, “Individual Crash Fire Report,” 20 May 1949, Aircraft Accident No. 49-5-16, Aircraft #43-48401, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
101. WD AGO Form 8-33, “Clinical Record Brief,” 16 May 1949, Personnel records of Air Force members, service numbers AO 827137 and AF 42050093, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
102. WD AGO Form 5-4, “Individual Crash Fire Report,” 19 December 1949, Aircraft Accident No. 49-12-15-2, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
103. WD AGO Form 8-33, “Clinical Record Brief,” 19 December 1949, and “Autopsy Report,” Personnel records of Air Force members, service numbers 17343A, AF 11101085, and 15239923, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
104. ibid.
105. WD AGO Form 8-33, “Clinical Record Brief,” 1 June 1950, Personnel records of Air Force members, service numbers AO 685565 and AF 32668639, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
106. ibid.
107. ibid.
108. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 16, 1955 of Air Force members, service numbers AO 3006516 and AO 3004607, Aircraft Accident No. 55-6-16-6, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
109. DD Form 481-3, “Clinical Record Cover Sheet,” June 16, 1955, Personnel Records of Air Force members, service numbers AO 3006516 and AO 3004607, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
110. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 16, 1955, of Air Force members, service numbers AO 3006516 and AO 3004607, Aircraft Accident No. 55-6-16-6, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
111. Air Force Form 14b, “Medical Report of an Individual Involved in AF Aircraft Accident,” 3 October 1955, Aircraft Accident No. 55-10-3-6, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
112. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. October 4, thru October 7, 1955, George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to MCTSG, October 12, 1955, Accession No. 342-65A-6025, Box 25/28, folder Trip Rpts., Search & Ident: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip #198 to 234, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., and AF Form 715, “Preparation Room History,” 4 October 1955, Personnel Record of Air Force member, service number 1521B/2009467, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
113. Air Force Form 14b, “Medical Report of an Individual Involved in AF Aircraft Accident,” 3 October 1955, Aircraft Accident No. 55-10-3-6, Air Force Historical Research Agency, Maxwell AFB, AL.
114. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 27, 1956, Personnel Record of Air Force members, service numbers AO 2223861 and AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
115. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to Thomas W. Toy, Chief Memorial Affairs Branch, Air Force Services Division, Accession No. 342-65A-6025, Box 25/28, folder Trip Rpts., Search & Ident: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip #198 to 234, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
116. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 27, 1956, Personnel Record of Air Force members, service numbers AO 2223861 and AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., and Air Force Form 14b, “Medical Report of an Individual Involved in AF Aircraft Accident,” June 26, 1956, Headquarters Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland AFB, N.M.
117. AF Form 697, “Identification Findings and Conclusions,” 3 Feb 1960, Personnel Records of Air Force members, service numbers AO 794152 and 1046844, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
118. ibid.
119. ibid.
120. Charles A. Ravenstein, Air Force Combat Wings; Lineage and Honors Histories, 1947–1977 (Washington D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1984), 16, 275–276.
121. Air Force Form 14, “Report of Air Force Aircraft Accident,” June 26, 1956, Headquarters Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland AFB, N.M.
122. ibid.
123. ibid.
124. ibid.
125. ibid.
126. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to Thomas W. Toy, Chief Memorial Affairs Branch, Air Force Services Division, Accession No. 342-65A-6025, Box 25/28, folder Trip Rpts., Search & Ident: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip #198 to 234, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
127. ibid.
128. Jack L. Whenry, Maj., USAF, (Ret), telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, January 26, 1995, and John C. Walter, MSgt., USAF (Ret), telephone interview with Capt. James McAndrew, June 29, 1995 and July 12, 1996.
129. ibid.
130. Official Trip Report Walker AFB, N.M. 27 June through 30 June 1956, George Schwaderer, Identification Specialist to Thomas W. Toy, Chief Memorial Affairs Branch, Air Force Services Division, Accession No. 342-65A-6025, Box 25/28, folder Trip Rpts., Search & Ident: Mar 56 to Dec 56. Trip #198 to 234, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
131. ibid.
132. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview, and Karl T. Pflock, “Star Witness: The Mortician of Roswell Breaks His Code of Silence,” Omni, Fall 1995, 104.
133. DD Form 481-3, “Clinical Record Cover Sheet,” June 26, 1956, Personnel Record of AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
134. Whenry, Walters, and Air Force Manual 143-1, 1 November 1953, “Mortuary Affairs,” 28, Record Group 341, Entry 36, Box 13, Microfilm Reel 167, National Archives and Record Administration, College Park, Md.
135. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
136. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 27, 1956, Personnel Record of Air Force members, service numbers AO 2223861 and AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
137. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
138. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 27, 1956, Personnel Record of Air Force member, service number AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.
139. ibid.
140. ibid.
141. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, W. Glenn Dennis interview.
142. Standard form 503, “Autopsy Protocol,” June 27, 1956, Personnel Record of Air Force members, service numbers AO 2223861 and AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., and Air Force Form 14b, “Medical Report of an Individual Involved in AF Aircraft Accident,” June 26, 1956, Headquarters Air Force Safety Agency, Kirtland AFB, N.M.
143. DD Form 481-3, “Clinical Record Cover Sheet,” June 26, 1956, Personnel Record of Air Force members, service numbers AO 2223861 and AF 37578524, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo.