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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.
“Socorro, New Mexico”4 pages
I lxukipated in at ltxtst two dummy vxxxeries. The mctcorologist lrom the Balloon tkmch. IXAc Gidcnlxx~. would detwminc the best place to lautxh ihe balloons depending on the prevailing leather conditions. 1M.c also predicted. with wmsiderablc x~urac~. whcrc the dummies xould impact. I speciiicall~ rtxall a dummy I rewvcrcd nca~ the hxnada test range. txhwcn Ixasburg and (@an XM. l3n-ing this recovery I drove a capons wrier and I was only able to lwate one 01.the dummies. I never Itlund out what happened to the other one. The next recolwy I remember was on a ranch jw southwest of. RoweIl. \!‘tz wcrc given directions to the area hy the balloon branch personnc1who had hcen contacted by a rancbcr. ‘I’bc quipment had reward notices taped to them to aid in rccovety. \\‘e went to the Smith ranch. I remember the name hecausc I writ to Xcw 1Ie.siw :&XI with the rancher. I kne\v him as Smitty. \f.e seawhed that da> from howbach and wuld no1 lind the dumties. ‘The foIlowing da! se resumed our search from hors&a& and again wuld not lind the dummies. I also recall that Smitp asked us ior some of the parachute material SOhc could m&c a shirt. \+.c dropped man! dummies l&n the baIlwns xxi I knw many were no! immediately recovered. but most s\erc. I sewed for hwxq’ tivc ycxs in the .\ir Force Jnd most of those years were in the aero mcdicai fkld. I parkipated in the spaceprogram and the hi&l>. classiCed earl\: stagesof I..-? pwg,ram. Yc\:er duting this time were -aliens’~or -!lying saucers~~a pan 0; an? pro.&% ‘I’here were. howelcr. countless achievements by the .ti k’orce in xrospxe mcdicinc that wrc the result of’dcdi~at~d scicntilic rcscar~h. It seemslihcI>~IO me that somconc could have mistaken our anthropomorphic dummies for somethin that they were not. I am not part of any wnspirxy to withhold ox-pro\& misleading inknmation to the I~‘nited Soaks Government or the American public. There is no Awstiied infknation that I am \\ithhoIding related to this inquiry and I have never been threatened b>,1,y.S. Ckwemment persons concemin~ rc!&ing from talking about this matter. 181
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