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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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instrumentation kit that contained accelerometers, pressure transducers, an ocscillograph, and a camera to record movements of the dummy during free-fall. 52 Recoveries of the test dummies were accomplished by personnel from the Holloman AFB Balloon BranchY 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-4 7 transport aircraft-the exact vehicles and aircraft described by the witnesses as having been present at the crashed saucer locations. 54 On one occasion, just southwest of Roswell, a HIGH DrvE project officer, 1st Lt. Raymond A. Madson, even conducted a search for dummies on horseback55 (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. 56 30 Fig. 31. An M-35 21;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 Force photo) Fig. 32. M-37 %-ton utility trucks, known as "weapons carriers," were used for high altitude balloon recoveries by the Holloman Balloon Branch during the 1950s. Here, recovery technicians use an M-37 to retrieve an Aero Medical gondola from a location on HollomanAFB, N.M. (U.S. Air Force photo)
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