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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.
Fig. 17. (Left) Early rope and sandbag dummy used to test parachutes. (U.S. Air Force phoroJ Fig. 18. (Ri,qht) Parachute drop dummies in use at Wright Field, Ohio. The historic Flight Test hangars. Hangars 1 and 9, can be seen in the background. (U.S. Air Force phoroJ Anthropomorphic Dummies The ejection seat had been developed and used successfully by the German Luftwaffe during the latter stages of World War 11. The utility of this invention was realized when the U.S. Army Air Forces obtained an ejection seat in 1944.” To properly test the ejection seat, the Army Air Forces required a dummy that had the same center of gravity and weight distribution as a human, characteristics that parachute drop dummies did not possess. In 1944, the USAAF Air Materiel Command contracted with the Ted Smith Company of Upper Darby, Pa. to design and manufacture the first dummy intended to accurately represent a human.‘4 The dummy had the same basic shape as a human, hut with only abstract human features, and “skin” made of canvas. In 1949, the U.S. Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory submitted a proposal for an improved model of the anthropomorphic dummy.” This request was originated by the renowned Air Force scientist and physician John P. Stapp, now a retired Colonel, who conducted a series of landmark Figs. 19 & 20. (Left & Righr) These early anthropomorphic dummies, manufactured by the Ted Smith Co., of Upper Darby, Pa., were used by the Army Air Forces beginning in 1944. They were replaced by a more realisticdummy in 1949. (Right) “Oscar Eightball,” the name given to this early model anthropomorphic dummy by Cd. John P. Stapp, is shown following a run of the higb- speedtrack at Muroc AAF (now EdwardsAFB), Calif., in 1947. (U.S. Air Force photos)
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