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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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instrumentation kit that contained accelerometers, pressure transducers, an ocscillograph, and a camera to record movements of the dummy during free-fall.” Recoveries of the test dummies were accomplished by personnel from the Holloman AFB Balloon Branch.” Typically, eight to twelve civilian and military recovery personnel arrived at the site of an anthropomorphic dummy landing as soon as possible following impact. The recovery crews operated a variety of aircraft and vehicles. These included a wrecker, a six-by-six, a weapons carrier, and L-20 observation and C-47 transport aircraft-the exact vehicles and aircraft described by the witnesses as having been present at the crashed saucer locations.‘” On one occasion, just southwest of Roswell, a HIGH DIVE project officer, I st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, even conducted a search for dummies on horsebacks5 (see statement in Appendix B). To expedite the recoveries, crews were prepositioned with their vehicles along a paved highway in the area where impact was expected.5h Fig. 3 I. An M-35 2 %-ton cargo truck, commonly referred to as a “six-by-six,” were used by the Holloman Balloon Branch to launch and recover anthropomorphic dummies and suspension racks at numerous locations throughout New Mexico. (U.S. Air Fmephoro) Fig. 32. M-37 V-ton utility trucks, known as “weapons carriers,” were used for high altitudr balloon recoveriesby the Holloman Balloon Branch during the 1950s. Here, recovery lrchnicians use an M-37 to retrieve an Aero Medical gondola from a kxation on HollomanAFB. N.M. (U.S. Air Force pharoj
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