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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. Roland II. Lutz. CMSgt. USAF. (Ret), hereby state that James McAndrew was identif~iedas a Lieutenant. LLS.4FR on this date at my home and do hereby. voluntarily and of my own free wilI> make the following statement, This was done without having been subjected to any coet-cion, tmlawful infhience or unIawtii1 inducement. I enlisted in the I~:,!%Navy in 1947 and transferred to the U.S. Air ITome in 1958. In June. 1958 I was assignedto the Right surge0n.s otke al HolIoman AFB. Xv1 as an Aero kledical Technician. I served sevzeralIOWS in Southeast .4sia and retired from the .Ait Force in I774 as an iiero Medical Superintendcttt. On May 20-21. 1959 I was assignedto provide medical coverage for a balloon training mission thawtook &from Holloman APB and ended with a crash near RosweII KAJ. (Yam Joe tittinger was training hvo other pilok (Yapt Pulgham and Capt Kaufman. I Iollowed the balloon in an ambulance duting the night and at daybreak I followed the balloon in an H-21 helicopter. Just after daybreak I saw the balloon crash and the three pilots were dumped form the gondola. I immediately informed the helicopter pilot and we landed in a field on which cattle were grazing. I recall the rancher was upset becausethe helicopter was frightening his cattle and some cattle had gotten out of the tield. I assesedthe injuties to the pilots and recommended they be taken immediately to ihc closest hospital vvhich was at \Valkcr AI’B. apptximatelv 5 IO 10 minutes avvavb> helicopter, Capt F&ham’s head was swelling due IO a hemotoma he received when the gondola struck him. Cam Littinger was cut on the face and was bleeding. Cam Lutfman was uninjured. At Walker I rcmembcr a telephone conversation with a flight surgeon who told me to ‘.go home and sleep it ofT’. He apparently did not believe my stop ol-three Ait Force pilots that were victims of a balloon crash. However. I was able to convince him and he treated Capt Fulgham and Capt Kimtiger. While at the hospital Capt Fu1gham.s head had swelled enormously and his eyes were beginning to turn black. I do not recall that anything unusual occurred at the hospital at Ll:alker. I remember the three pilots sitting on a bench in the hallway waiting to be treated. I do not remember that Capt Kittinger was involved in an altercation with anyone while at lhc hospiraL if he had ~I would have known about it. CYaptl&nger was concerned with gcning medical treatment Ior his injured crew member. Capt FuIgham. and returning to IIolloman. I ako do not recall a black NC0 accompanying Cam Kittingtx while we were a1the hospital, I do not remember a nurse assisting in the treatment of Capt Pulgham or Capt Kittinger. I also do not remember a male civilian or any persomtel or vehicles from a mortuac. and I do 1101 recaIl any remains in body bags in the hospital
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