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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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of a dummy's arms and legs during tests. 145 A reference to a bandage "around his [the crewmember's] midsection and partially over his shoulder" 146 is a likely reference to the standard B-4 or B-5 parachute with chest and shoulder straps worn by the dummies. 147 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." 148 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. 149 A 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." 150 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." 151 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 64 Fig. 77. "An observation aircraft ... a high- winged aircraft"-a witness's probable reference to a U.S. Air Force L-20 aircraft used extensively by Holloman AFB crews to track and recover anthropomorphic dummies. (U.S. Air Force photo) Fig. 78. Described as present at a flying saucer "crash" site was a C-4 7 aircraft. This is a probable reference to a U.S. Air Force C-47 transport 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 flew anthropomorphic dummies. (U.S. Air Force photo)
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 234 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.