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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.
“Holloman Air Force Base”9 pages
Fig. 25. “Lord, rake care of me now,” were Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger. Jr.‘s words as he exited the EXT.SIOR 111 balloon gondola a, 102,X00 feet on August 16, 1960. over White Sands Proving Ground, N.M. Kittinger’s courageous scientific achievement remains, to this day, the highest parachute jump ever accomplished. (US. Air Force photo) A number of these launch and recovery locations were in the areaswhere the “crashed saucer” and “space aliens” were allegedly observed. Following the series of dummy tests, a human subject, test pilot Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., now a retired Colonel, made three parachute jumps from high altitude balloons. Since free-fall tests from these unprecedented altitudes were extremely hazardous, they could not be accomplished by a human until a rigorous testing program using anthropomorphic dummies was completed. 2.5
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