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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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Fig. 14. Project officer and pilot, Capt. JosephW. Kittinger, Jr., standing beside the EXCELSIORgondola at Halloman AFB. N.M. On his third and final high altitude parachutejump. from 102.800 feet, he esrablishcd world recordsfor highest parachute jump and length of free-fall which still stand today. (U.S. Air Force ,dmo) widely publicized manned high altitude balloon programs. The objective of Project MAN HIGH was to measure the physiological and psychological capabilities of a human in a space equivalent environment. Many developments of this successful project were later incorporated into the first phase of the U.S. Air Force Man in Space Program nicknamed MAN IS &ACE Soowsr (MISS). Technology developed for MISS was transferred to NASA in 1959 and became part of Project MERCURY,the initial series of U.S. space missions.1o’ Project Exce~s~on. In 1959 and 1960 the U.S. Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory collaborated with the Holloman Balloon Branch for Project EXCELSIOR,the second Air Force manned high altitude balloon program. EXCELSIORwas the dramatic climax of the high altitude free-fall studies that began as Project HIGHDIVE in 19.53using anthropomorphic dummies. As the test director for Project EXCELSIOR,Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. made three parachute jumps from balloons, EXCELSIORI, 11,and Ill, from 76,000, 75,000, and a still standing record altitude of 102,800 feet. EXCELSIOR’Sscientific objective was to develop a parachute system and techniques required to return a pilot or astronaut to eti following an emergency high altitude escape. Project ST~GAZER.Project STARGAZERwas the third Air Force manned high altitude balloon program. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger. Jr., the veteran high altitude balloon pilot of MAN HIGHand Exwxx, was both the pilot and project engineer. On December 13, 1962, Kittinger and U.S. Navy civilian astronomer William C. White rose to X6.000 feet to make astronomical observations with a gym-stabilized telescope. A joint U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Smithsonian Institution, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology program, STAKGAZLRmade only one of a scheduled four flights due to budget shortfalls and equipment difticulties.
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