The Roswell Report: Case Closed

Witness Description	Air Force Equipment/Procedure	“Crash Site”
21. “It's uniform was torn in a couple spots...their uniforms were in pretty sad shape.”186Anderson	Dummy uniforms were often secondhand, rips and other defects were common but they remained in service (fig.75).	Site2
22. “Around the collar it [the suit] was trimmed in...maroon-like cording”187Anderson	Reference to red duct tape used to prevent air from filling the dummy's flightsuit (figs.29,30).	Site2
23. “They looked like they had some sort of bandages on 'em...over his [the crewmember's] arm.'188Anderson	Reference to tape and nylon webbing used to prevent arms and legs of dummy from flailing. Tape was also used to secure the removable back plate of head (figs.29,30,35,72-75).	Site2
24. [bandages] “around his midsection and partially over his shoulder”189Anderson	Reference to parachute harness that had chest and shoulder straps.	Site2
The “Craft”
25. “It [the crewmember] felt dead when I touched it, it was very cold.”190Anderson	Description of a high altitude balloon payload that was cold soaked at sub zero temperatures of the upper atmosphere.	Site2
26. “it was a dirigible, a blimp that had crashed”191Anderson	Reference to a partially inflated or deflated high altitude balloon (figs.23,70).	Site2
27. “a flying saucer that had burst open”192Maltais	Reference to the dummy suspension rack that did not have sides (figs.35,73-75).	Site2
28. “clusters of thread like material in the form of a cable”193Anderson	Numerous cables and wires were used in the dummy instrumentation kits and balloon control package.	Site2
29. “others of those [cables] went from one kind of package of components to another kind of package”194Anderson	Both balloon control package and dummy instrumentation kits were connected by cables (fig.73).	Site2
30. “some kind of container, a metal box”195Anderson	Reference to balloon control package or dummy instrumentation kit (fig.73).	Site2