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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.
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WCUSS=22 ATTN: Mr. R.L. Mason 19 Jan 56 Lt. Nielsen/1bc Ext. 2-4194/B.33 1. On 17 November 1955, an anthropomorphic dummy, B-15 jacket and a stop watch were lost during a high altitude dummy drop from a balloon at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico. 2. The drop was performed to determine the effectiveness of a two stage personnel parachute in lowering a man-like dummy from 85,000 feet. The test was part of a continuing task "High Altitude Escape Studies", 7218-71719. The point at which the dummy reached the ground was not known to the recovery crews at the time and an extensive search lasting through the first week of December 1955 failed to discover the lost items. ## 3. Lost are: a. 1 ea., dummy, anthropomorphic, Sierra Engineering Co. model 120, stock no. 3500-NL-30010. b. 1 ea., jacket, B-15, spec. 3220, size 36, stock no. 8415-269-0512, c. 1 ea., stop watch, Fisher Scientific Co. P/N 14-646, stock no. 8TAA 98545. 4. Because of the loss of these items as a result of a test, it is requested that Lt. Henry P. Nielsen be relieved of the responsibility for these items. HARVEY E. SAVELY Chief, Biophysics Branch Aero Medical Laboratory Directorate of Research CONCURRENCE: BEH2 VEKO WEIGHT Along V. Welman LL05AF WORD 4 Omlenderson CRUSAF WORD 205K NCRDB-4 Figs. 36-38. Actual photographs of an Alderson Laboratories type anthropomorphic dummy falling away from its suspension rack at high altitude over New Mexico. Fig. 37 (center) appears on the cover of this publication. （U.S. Air Force photos) Fig. 39. Memo taken from Project HIGH DIVE files explaining the loss of a dummy near Roswell, N.M. in November 1955.
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