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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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I, 01~ ,Jorgeson.LiSgt. LY3.G’~(Ret), hereby state that James kIcAndrew was identified as a Lieutenant. I,XAFR on this date at my home and do hereby: voluntarily and of.rny own I?ee\\:iU. make the following statement. This was done without ha\ing been sub&cd to any coercion. unlawt.ut influence or urtla~ful inducement. I enlisted in the C.S. .Air Force in 1957 and became a Ground rommunications and Electronic Repairman. I rtxnaincd in this career field throughout my career. I completed three tours at the Mloon Branch at HoUoman .X33. Mvf. I r&red from the Air Force in I977 as the XC0IC of the Communication and Insttxmentation Section of the l3aUoon Branch at HoUoman AFF3 I recaUan o!.jernight balloon training mission that \vas conducted in 31ay. 1959. C’ap~Joe I-ACnger was training back up pilots !br one of his upcoming projects. I was an airman assi:gnedto coordiiate dommunicak~ns and to assistin the recovery of the baUoon upon complc~ion ol.thc mission. I followed the balloon in an old Lorean N’ar vintage %-ackerbox” ambulance that had been cometied into a communications van. .tiother airman and I I’Mowed the balloon throug.hmn the night on an caster& tyitxtoq o\:er the Sacramento X,Iountainsto an area north of’ Roswell. Also Mlowing the balloon were recovet~ technicians in a weapons carrier. LVe stayed in contact with the balloon crew b> radio and also observed flares Ihe cre~vwould light at \:arious interAs so wc could GsuaIl~ track Them. .iusr aider sunrise I retail the balloon landing north of~Ro.swcUand C’apt tittinger ofkred me some coffee and told mc he was going to make one more touch and go landiig to complete the mission. I remember that I took some photographs of the baUoonand waikd for the 1~ landiig. Several minuks later I rcmcmber hearing a -bang”. this was the quib that tired to release the gondola ikm the balloon, We immediately went to where the gondola landed and saw the gondola laying on its side and saw hvo of the pilots standing and one lying down. ILying on the ground was a shatteredhehnet that was worn by one o!‘the pilots. C’apt IGttiqej- told me they were attempting to land to alToid some power lines and a ro\\~of’trces. Soon after I xrivcd at the crash site. a helicopter that was also Mowing the ilight landed and tranyxx~ed the three aircrew members to \Valk~- ,AI-B ibr medical attemion, I rccaUI assistedthe recovery technicians load the baUoon and the gondola on the weapons carrieI and then drove 15 to 10 minutes to the hospital at Waker PWI~. \%%cnI arrived at \Valker. we parked the converted ambukmce near the hospital and tither the other atiman ivith me or the recovtxy technicians called the baUoon c,ontrol center to notil$ them or the accident. I recaUwaiting near the hospital fog-a short period of time and then returning to HoUoman .VI3. Durirq the time I was waiting at the hospital I did not observe any arguments or altercations. I did not obsewe Capt Kittinger speaking disrespcctftilly to anyone. I ako do not recall an>’maleci\ilians or any vehicles that belonged to a mortua?.
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