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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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STATEMEKT OF WITXSS Place : Date: ZB October 1906 I, William C. Kaufman, Lt. Col., USAF(Ret), hereby voluntarily and of my own free will, make the following statement. This was done without coercion, unlawful influence or unlawful inducement. I was drafted into the Army of the Ilnited States in 1943, transferred to the Army Air Forces, and was commissioned as a pilot in 1944. From 1950 until 196i, with a break for training for a combat tour in Korea and for educational assignments to AFIT, I was assigned to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright Patterson AFB, OII. During that time I was a physiological training officer and worked in the development of early pressure suits. I tested many high altitude pilots and also the first group of astronauts. Later during my Air Force career, in 1961, I earned a Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics. I was assigned to the Aero Medical laboratory for three tours and retired in 1968 as the Chief of the Biodynamics Branch of the Aero Medical Field Laboratory at Holloman AFK, Nhl. During my third assignment at Wright Patterson, I volunteered, along with Capt Dan Fulgham, to be a bdckup pilot for Capt Joe Kittinger for his high altitude balIoon project, Project Excelsior. Capt Kittinger instructed Cap1Fulgham and me in ballooning in May lOS9. At the end of an overnight training flight, on the morning of blay 2 1. 1959, northwest of Boswell, NM, we (Kittinger, Fulgham and I) had an accident with the balloon. We were practicing touch and go landings when a severe gust of wind overturned the gondola, dumping all of us to the ground with the gondola on top of us. The accident occurred in a smdll pasture where a pony was grazing next to a small cottage. For safety, we were followed during hours of darkness by a C-l 3 1 aircraft and during the day by a H-2 1 helicopter. We were followed the entire time by technicians in a truck for communications and for the recovery of the balloon and gondola. Seeing the accident, the crews of the helicopter and the recovery trucks came to our assistance, much to the dismay of the farmer who owned the pony, which had run away when the truck broke down the fence to reach the crash site. I recall that a member of the helicopter crew atrempted to calm the farmer. 171
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