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The Roswell Report: Case Closed is a 1997 US Air Force report written by Captain James McAndrew, with a foreword by Secretary of the Air Force Sheila E. Widnall. It follows up the 1994 report, which found that the 1947 debris came from the balloon project MoGUL. It concludes that the reported alien bodies were probably anthropomorphic test 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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STATEiv1ENT OF WITNESS Place: Date: 31 !\lay 95 L Roland H. Lutz, CMSgt USAF. (Ret), hereby state that James McAndrew \vas identified as a Lieutenant, USAFR on this date at my home and do hereby, voluntarily and of my own free will, make the following statement. This was done without having been subjected to any coercion, unlawful influem:e or unlawful inducement. I enlisted in the U.S. Navy in 1947 and transferred to the U.S. Air Force in 1958. In June, 1958 I \Vas assigned to the flight surgeon's offi~,;e at Holloman AFB, Nl\:1 as an Aero l\Iedical Technician. I served several tours in Southeast Asia and retired from the Air Force in 1974 as an Aero tvfedica] Superintendent. On May 20-21, 1959 I was assigned to provide medical coverage for a balloon training mission that took off from Holloman AFB and ended with a crash near Ros\vell, :N1d. Capt Joe Kittinger was training two other pilots, Capt Fulgham and Capt Kaufman. I follow·ed the balloon in an ambulance dming the night and at daybreak I follm.ved the balloon in an H-21 helicopter. Just after daybreak 1 saw the balloon crash and the three pilots \vere dumped form the gondola. I immediately informed the helicopter pilot and \Ve landed in a tleld on which cattle were grazing. I recall the rancher was upset because the helicopter was frightening his cattle and some cattle had gotten out of the fidd. I assesed the injuries to the pilots and recommended they be taken immediately to the closest hospital which \Vas at Walker AFB, apprximately 5 to 10 minutes away by he1k:opter. Capt Fulgham's head was swelling due to a hematoma he received when the gondola struck him. Capt Kittinger \vas cut on the face and was bleeding. Capt Kaufman was uninjured. At Walker I remember a telephone conversation with a flight surgeon \Vho told me to "go home and sleep it off". He apparently did not believe my story of three Air Force pilots that were victims of a balloon crash. However, I was able to convince him and he treated Capt Fulgham and Capt Kittinger. While at the hospital Capt Fulgham's head had swelled enormously and his eyes were beginning to tum black. I do not recall that anything unusual occuned at the hospital at Walker. I remember the three pilots sitting on a bench in the hallway waiting to be treated. I do not remember that Capt Kittinger was involved in an altercation with anyone while at the hospitaL if he had , I would have known about it Capt Kittinger was concerned with getting medical treatment for his injured crew member, Capt Fulgham, and returning to Holloman. I also do not recall a black NCO accompanying Capt Kittinger while we were at the hospital. I do not remember a nurse assisting in the treatment of Capt Fulgham or Capt Kittinger. I also do not remember a male civilian or any personnel or vehicles trom a mortuary, and I do not recall any remains in body bags in the hospital. 178
Report, cited by the archive. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 234 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.