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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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Fig. 79. “Stretching stuffou on the ground, dragging stuff out of trucks”--a likely witness reference to high altitude balloon inflation procedure that required the balloon to be stretched out on a protective ground cloth prior to infletion. (U.S. Air firm~~+zoroJ balloon flights? This testimony also described aircraft that were typically overhead during a recovery and an established procedure of landing on a rural road or in a field to reach isolated balloon launch or recovery locations.15’ Military Vehicles. Numerousmilitary vehicles,severalof which were describedby otherwitnessesill havingbeenat the othercrashsitenotth of Roswell, werealsodescribed.Witnessesat the two differentsitesdescribeda “wrecker” and a “six-by-six,” both of the type usedfor anthropomorphicdummy rccoveries.‘5”The accountalsodescribedtwo vehiclesuniqueto the Balloon Branchthat were usedfor the majority of high altitudeballoonrecoveriesduring the mid-to late 1950s. The witness described a “jeep-like truck that had a bunch of radios in it”. .There was a guy sittin’ in there wearin’ earphonesand he was talking on the radio.“” This is a likely description of a Dodge M-37 3Wton utility truck, known as a weapons carrier, that had been specially modified to carry radio equipment for balloon recovery operations. The Holloman AFB Balloon Branch modified these vehicles in 1953, ruling out the possibility that the witness observedthem in 1947,when such vehicles were not available to organizations performing balloon operations.‘shThe other vehicle described and usedby the Balloon Branch were “military ambulances.““’ During the mid-1950s, the Balloon Branch modified three M-43 3/4-ton ambulancesfor use as balloon recovery and communications vehicles.Is8 These vehicles were used for anthropomorphic dummy launch and recovery missions to relay messagesto circling recovery aircraft and the balloon operationscenter at Holloman AFB? The witness also described “a trailer with a motor on it, like a generator.“‘*’ This is a likely description of a 1 l&ton cargo trailer with an MB-19 I5 Kilowatt diesel generator. These generatorswere usedprimarily on balloon launch sites during the 1950sand 1960s (see fig. 71). Balloon Branch Procedures. Descriptions of military personnel “stretching stuff out on the ground, dragging stuff out of trucks”lh’ is a likely description of a balloon launch procedure that required the fragile 65
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