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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 Headquarters United States Air Force report by Captain James McAndrew that follows up the 1994 Air Force report on the Roswell Incident. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from Project MOGUL balloons. It also says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. Claims of bodies at the Roswell hospital most likely combined a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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Table 2.4
U.S. Air Force Manned High Altitude Balloon Flights
Date Project/Flight Altitude(feet) Pilot
6/2/57 MAN HIGH I 96,200 Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr.
8/19/57 MAN HIGH II 101,500 Lt. Col. David G. Simons(MC)
10/8/58 MAN HIGH III 99,700 1st Lt. Clifton McClure
11/16/59 EXCELSIOR I 76,400 Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr.
12/11/59 EXCELSIOR II 74,700 Capt. Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr.
8/16/60 EXCELSIOR III 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.
## Low Altitude Balloon Training Missions
Background. In April 1958, 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
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) Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. The text was read from the page images by an OCR model; expect the odd misread word. 232 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.