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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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Witness Description Air Force Equipment/Procedure “Crash Site” 31. “it was ice cold, it felt like it just came out of a freezer”196Anderson Condition of a balloon payload after it has been “cold soaked” in the upper atmosphere at temperatures far below zero. Site 2 Vehicles 32. a “jeeplike truck that had a bunch of radios in it and two big antennas...There was a guy sittin' in there wearin' earphones and he was talking on the radio.”197Anderson Reference to a modified M-37 3/4-ton utility truck, commonly referred to as a weapons carrier, unique to the Balloon Branch. One of the primary vehicles used by recovery crews. Balloons were tracked by direction finding gear and required a radio operator to wear headphones (fig. 32). Site 2 33. “weapons carriers”198Ragsdale Corroboration of description #32. See above. Site 1 34. “six by six Army trucks”199Ragsdale Reference to M-35 21/2-ton cargo truck used to transport dummies and suspension racks for launch and recoveries (fig. 31). Site 1 35. “six by [six]... military truck with canvas...wagon type...thing over it”200Anderson Corroboration of description #34. See above. Site 2 36. “wreckers [with] cranes on ‘em”201Anderson reference to M-246 wrecker used to launch and recover anthropomorphic dummy payloads (figs. 23, 28, 70). Site 2 37. “a wrecker”202Ragsdale Corroboration of description #36. See above. Site 1 38. “there was military ambulances”203Anderson Reference to a converted M-43 ambulances used as balloon recovery communications vehicles (figs. 64, 71, 80). Site 2 39. “the pick-up”204Anderson Pick-up trucks were often used to recover anthropomorphic dummies (figs. 71, 79). Site 2
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