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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It attributes the hospital body claims to a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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Date 6/2/57 8119/57 10/8/58 11/16/59 12111/59 8/16/60 Table 2.4 U.S. Air Force Manned High Altitude Balloon Flights Project/Flight MAN HIGH I MAN HIGH II MAN HIGH III ExcELSIOR I ExcELSIOR II EXCELSIOR III Altitude (feet) 96,200 101,500 99,700 76,400 74,700 Pilot Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. Lt. Col. David G. Simons (MC) 1st Lt. Clifton McClure Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. 102,800 Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. 12/13/62 STARGAZER 86,000 Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. With the completion of Project STARGAZER and the success of NASA's Project MERCURY space flights, future investigations were accomplished by space vehicles. This signaled the end of an era of manned high altitude balloon flight; however, these projects had indeed "bridged the gap," and manned space flight was now safely possible. ================~~~F================ Low Altitude Balloon Training Missions Background. In April1958, Col. John P. Stapp, commander of the U.S. Air Force Aero Medical Laboratory at Wright-Patterson AFB, appointed a new project officer for Project ExcELSIOR, Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr.. ExcELSIOR was part of an ongoing program to examine high altitude aircraft escape procedures and equipment. 168 Kittinger was an experienced fighter test pilot who was the pilot of the first Air Force manned high altitude balloon project, MAN HIGH I, in June 1957. 169 In addition to being the 104 Fig. 15. Project STARGAZER pilot and project engineer, Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr. (left), after landing near Lordsburg, N.M. on December 13, 1962 with U.S. Navy civilian astronomer William C. White. Kittinger and White ascended to 86,000 feet to make astronomical observations in the seventh, and final, U.S. Air Force manned high altitude balloon flight. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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