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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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Dummy Drop Procedures Fig. 28. (Left) Witnesses at bath flying saucer “crash” For the majority of the tests, dummies were flown to altitudes between 30,000 and 98,000 feet attached to a specially designed rack suspended below a high altitude balloon.“9 On several flights the dummies were mounted in the door of an experimental high altitude balloon eondola.5” Uoon reaching the desired altitude. the dummies were released and free-fell’for several minutes before deployment of the main parachute. sites stated that a “wrecker” was used in the recovery of the “alien” craft. This was a likely reference to the M-342 five-ton wrecker, used to launch and recover anthropomorphic dummies. Fig. 29. (Kightj Three tests utilized anthropomorphic dummies mounted in the door of an experimental Project HIGH DIVE gondola. This launch look place on October 8, 1957, in front of curious onlookers at the public picnic iirea of White Sands National Monument, N.M. (U.S. Air Forw phoroj The dummies used for the balloon drops were outfitted with standard equipment of an Air Force aircrew member. This equipment consisted of a one-piece flightsuit, olive drab, gray (witnesses had described seeing aliens in gray one-piece suits) or fuchsia in color, ”boots, and a parachute pack: The dummies were also fitted with an
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