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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic 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. 135 …May 3, 1956, 1, and Ronald G. Hansen, Lt. Col. USAR, (Ret), Balloon Recovery Helicopter Pilot…

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## Notes - Section One

45. ibid.

46. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 1, and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, 18.

47. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., The Long, Lonely Leap, (New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1961), and Lt. Col. David G. Simons, Man High, (New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1960), and Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., "The Long, Lonely Leap," National Geographic 118, no. 6 (December 1960): 854-873, "Fantastic Catch in the Sky, Record Leap towards Earth," Life 49, no. 9 (August 29,1960): 20-25, Popular Mechanics Magazine, January 1951: 118, Collier's, June 25, 1954, Time, September 12, 1955, "The Fastest Man on Earth".

48. Don Reilly, "MAD Salutes an Unsung Hero," MAD, no. 61, (March 1961), 46.

49. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II.

50. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part II, 11-12.

51. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret) and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 16.

52. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 5.

53. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17.

54. ibid., and Memorandum, subj: Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., National Archives and Records Administration, Accession No. 342-67B-2133, box 65/249, file 2, "Biophysics Branch-Escape Section, High Altitude Escape Studies, 7218-71719," and Robert Blankenship, retired Balloon Branch Recovery Supervisor, telephone interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, July 14, 1995.

55. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).

56. Blankenship, and Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., and Bernard D. Gildenberg, Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States (hereafter Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States), AFCRL-66-706 (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, MA: Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, October 1966), 27.

57. Historical Branch, Office of Information Services, Air Force Missile Development Center, Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center Holloman AFB, N. Mex. 1947-1958 (Holloman AFB, NM: Air Research and Development Command, 1958) (hereafter Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1947-1958), 90.

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