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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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Finally, on August 11.1960, DISCOVERERXIII successfully ejected a capsule and, amid much fanfare. the first recovery of a manmade object that had orbited the earth was accompIished.y2 This first successful mission of an American satellite, made possible in part by Holloman AFB high altitude balloons, enabled the U.S. to beat the Soviets and claim the honor of the first space recovery by only nine days.q3 The SURVEYOR(Moon), VOYAGER-MARS(Mars), VKINC (Mars), PIONEER(Venus), and GALILEO(Jupiter) spacecraft were tested by Air Force high altitude balloons before they were launched into space. VIKING and VOYAGER-MARSSpace Probes. Examples of unusual payloads, not likely to be associated with balloons, were qualification trials of NASA’s VOYAGER-MARSand VIKING space probes. Both of these spacecraft looked remarkably similar to the classic dome- shaped ‘flying saucer.” In 1966-67 and 1972, eight of the UFO lookalikes were launched by the Balloon Branch from the former Roswell Army Air Field (now Roswell Industrial Air Center), N.M.‘4 The spacecraft were transported by Air Force balloons to altitudes above 100,000 feet and released for a period of self-propelled, supersonic, free-flight prior to landing on the White Sands Missile Range.9’ While the origins of the “Roswell” scenarios cannot be specifically traced to these vehicles, their flying saucer-like appearance, and the fact that they were launched exclusively from the original “Roswell Incident” location, leaves an impression that perhaps these odd balloon payloads may have played some role in the unclear and distorted stories of at least some of the “Roswell” witnesses. Fig.52. A NASAVKING space probe is rolled out of its assembly building at Martin Marietta Corporalion in Denver,Cola.(NASA)
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