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The Roswell Report: Case Closed was published by Headquarters United States Air Force and written by Capt. James McAndrew. It follows up the July 1994 report, which traced the 1947 debris to Project MOGUL balloon trains. The report says the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test dummies dropped from high altitude balloons. It also says the accounts of bodies at the Roswell Army Air Field hospital probably merged two separate events: a 1956 KC-97 crash and a 1959 manned balloon mishap.
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Place : Date: 2X May 95 I. Bernard Ii. Wdenberg. GS-14. (Ret). hereby state that James Mc.Andrew~was identiiicd as a Lieutenant. L-S.-\FR on this date at my home and do hereby. voluntarily and ~frny own lice klI. mahc the following slaicment. This was done wilhout habing been subjrc~cd to any coercion. unlnrvful influence or unlawfful inducement. I becnmc involved in high altitude balloon development while an undergraduate smdcnt at New ‘Iyork L~nivcnity (VIX:). Follow~ing graduation I was hired by the .ti Force at Holloman .+‘I3 and worked continuously as both a meteorologist and aerospaceenqinmrer at the Balloon Branch from 195 1 until my retirement in 1981. XI? job responsibilitks were IO iorecast the weather and f$ by remote control. high altitude balloons for many difycrent scientific projects. During thts time. I became internationally recognized as an authority on high altitude balIoon trajcctoty forecasring. I have published numerow technical reports and artkles. The tirst project in w~hich1 was involved. while still an undergraduate student at X377‘. was the acoustical detection of nuclear esplosions. The name of‘ the project. hlogul. was classtiied and I didn’t know this name until several years ago. Based on my c\;pelicnce with this project I am certain project Mogul was rcsponsiblc for some potlions of what has bccomc to be known as the “Roswell Incident”. Follow-ing prqiect Mogul I was involved in perfecting high altitude balloon technology and made many test flights with large polyethylene balloons from Holloman X33. I worked ertensivcly on atmospheric sampling projects and biological flights in which rhe baUoons lifted small animals to altitude for cosmic ray experiments. I also worked on the .\lob!- Dicl, Project that collected meteorological data and the classified Gopher (119L) reconnaissance project. I was retied upon to forecast the weather. conduct clima~ological srudics. predict b.aIloon trajectories. and to hit with precision. ground targets both on and off the White Sands kfissile Range. Balloon tr+jcctories in NW Mexico helom~the tropopause. arc predominantly towards the east-northeast,when launched IYom HolIoman .V;‘R with the esception of July and :\u.gust when balloons remained over the HoUoman area. ;\I high altitude, above the tropopause. trajectories arc generally westerly during the summer and easterly during the spring. Ml. and winter. As a result these kvinds. rhe Holloman balloon branch rrcovered many. probably hundreds. of balloons and scientific payloads from the Roswell. CVI arca over the years. During the time of the year when trajectories were to the cast I attempted IO drop the equipment near accessiblenon mountainous areas and paved roads. The main target arca was the first large north-south road on the other side of the Sacramento Mountains from Hoiloman .AF:R.Highway 285. l‘his road goes north and south through Rosrvell. The 166 I
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