The Roswell Report: Case Closed

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Plxe : lM2: 2-t .lune 95
I. Joseph \V. Kittingcr. .lr.. Cal. t:S,\F (Ret). her&y state that James Mc~~\ndrewwas
ideruifkx~ as a L.ieutcnant. l!S.kFR on this date at mv home and do hereby. wfun~atily and
of my own I~iw will. make the following statement. .This was done without ha\ing been
sul+xtcd to any coercion. unIawful intluence or unlatvful inducement.
I cntercd the l~:.S. Air Force in IN9 a.%an ,A\iation Cadet, From 1950 to 195.?I ilc~\
tightcrs in Europe before king assignedto the Fighter ‘Test Section at I Ioiioman z-WI.
111 in July. 1953. Dutig my tour as a test pilot I condwted the lirst zero gra\ic tests
and was the halloon pilot of the fi-st Project Man High h&h altitude research mission. In
195X I was assignedto the Escape Section of the Aero Jledical I Aoratov at \Yright
Patterson WI3, OH. During this tour l was the Project Wker of Project kvxlsior and
made three high altitude parachute jumps. the highestfrom 102~80~feet. 1vhic.htoda>
remains a world record. For thesejumps I was a\xarded the Eiamwn Trophy ror I960 h!.
President lknhower, Following Excelsior. I \ws the Project Ollicer of- Stargazer. a
project that made astronomical obsetyations f?orn a high akitude halloon. 1 flw two
cornhat tours in Southcast Asia with the Air Commandos. l later llew a tour in F--k and
wz the Squadron Commander of the 555 Tactical Fighter Squadron. I accumulated over
I .OW combat Iking hours and I am credited with one xxial \ictoxT. I speni ten months as
a P(O\!~in Hano;. L:pon my return I attended ,ti \\-ar College. lle\\~ F-4s and r&cd Tom
the ,Ar I:orcc in 1978. In 1984 I lxcamc the first person to m&e a solo Grossingof the
,\tlantic by balloon.
In 1958 I was made the Project Officer ot’E.vxisior hy (~-01John Paul Stapp. the Aem
1 Mica1 I .ahoratoy (‘ommander. I supewis.xl and was actively involved in the dropping
and rccovec ol’anthropomorphic dummies from high altitude balloons CIIHolloman .~WB.
131 fbr this pro.@. N.c also dropped dummies. from aircrali only. at \Vright-Patterson
,~\FX OH I’he object of the Holloman tests were to study the kx fall characteristics ot.
dummies dropped front lxilloons ;tt altitudes of 50.000 to lO~1.000f&t. lkxd on this data
we designed a parachute that stabilized the dummies and I later used this parachute on m>
three high altitude jumps.
l’hc balloons carrying the dummies were launched from various locations in Sew llexico
and &cn impacted of?’of’ the b:kite Sands Prwing Ground depending on the wind
conditions. The dummk were outfitted with clothing and equipment of an Air Force
piIot. ‘The facial features or the dummies were not as pronounced x a human. The ears
;md noses did not protrude. I do not recall any dummies bvith ears or noses. Some of the
dummies \\~erenot complete: they sometimes did not have arms or legs. ‘To someone not
zso&ted with the prosiector who x,iewed the dummies Idiom a distance. they could appcx
IO bc human or with some imagination a spxe alien.” In fact. I recall une incidenr at
!!.right- Patterson where one of’our dummies landed near the hackytrd oi’ Gen. Rawlings.
Commander ot. the Air Researchand Dewlopment Command. Gen. Ra\\ling’s kite was
entertaining dlictx’s wives that afternoon when one of~our durnrn!.‘s parxhutc f&d to
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