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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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of a dummy’s arms and legs during tests.lJ5 A reference to a bandage “around his [the crewmember’s] midsection and partially over his shoulder”‘“” 1s a likely reference to the standard B-4 or B-5 parachute with chest and shoulder straps worn by the dummies.‘“’ The “Craft.” In what appears to be a clear reference to a balloon, was that when he saw the crashed vehicle he “thought it was a blimp.“‘“” Additional descriptions of cables that “went from one kind of a package of components to another kind of package” and a “metal box” were likely references to the balloon control package that was positioned on top of the dummy suspension rack. I49A further reference to a balloon payload is the statement that on a hot New Mexico day the crashed vehicle was “ice cold, it felt like it just came out of the freezer.“15” This accurately describes a physical condition known as “cold soaking” common to high altitude payloads that had recently been exposed to sub-zero temperatures of the upper atmosphere. Military Aircraft. The witness also described two aircraft of the same type used for anthropomorphic dummy recoveries as having been involved in the activity he witnessed. One aircraft was described as a “C-47” and another as an “observation aircraft...a high-winged aircraft.““’ These were a C-47 and a L-20 aircraft used extensively by the Balloon Branch during the mid 1950s for tracking and recovering anthropomorphic dummy Fig. 77. “An observation aircraft...a high-winged aircraft”--a witness‘s probable reference IU a U.S. Air Force L-20 aircraf used rxtrnsively by Ho,,oman AFB crews to track and recover anthropomorphic dummies. (US Air FinwphoroJ Fig. 78. Described as present at a flying saucer “crash” site was a C-47 aircraft. This is a probable reference to a U.S. Air Force c-47 transp”rt aircraft used to move equipment to launch sites distant from Holloman AFB. These aircraft were also used for aerial tracking of high altitude balloon flights including those that ilew anthropomorphic dummies. (U.S. Air Four phoro) 64
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