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The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows the 1994 Air Force report, which tied the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloons. This volume concludes that the reported alien bodies were most likely anthropomorphic 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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141. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.

142. ibid.

143. Signed, sworn statement of Raymond A. Madson, Lt. Col., USAF (Ret).

144. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.

145. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 22.

146. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.

147. High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 9, and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part II, 8.

148. Berliner and Friedman, 91.

149. ibid., 92-94.

150. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.

151. ibid.

152. Memorandum, subject: Balloon Tracking and Recovery Equipment, n.d., National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., Accession No. 342-67B-2133, box 65/249, file 2, "Biophysics Branch Escape Section, High Altitude Escape Studies, 7218-71719," and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part I, 17, and "Weekly Test Status Report on Project 7218, Manned Balloon Flights, (MX-1450B)”，for Week Ending 28 February 1955, National Archives and Records Administration, National Personnel Records Center, St. Louis, Mo., Accession No. 342-66A-181, Box 14/18.

153. Kittinger and Historical Branch, Office of Information Services, Air Research and Development Command, History of Flight Support Holloman Air Development Center 1946-1957 (Holloman AFB, N.M.: Holloman Air Development Center, 1957), 101.

155. Berliner and Friedman, 106.

154. Blankenship.

156. Bernard D. Gildenberg, Techniques Developed for Heavy Load Non-Extensible Balloon Flights, Report No. HADC-TN-54-3 (Holloman AFB, NM: Holloman Air Development Center, March 1954), 7.

157. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.

158. Blankenship and Ole Jorgeson, MSgt., USAF, (Ret), Balloon Branch Communications Supervisor, interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, May 28, 1995.

159. ibid.

160. Berliner and Friedman, 107.

161. ibid.

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