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.
154. Blankenship.
155. Berliner and Friedman, 106.
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.
162. Blankenship.
163. Berliner and Friedman, 106.
164. Blankenship.
165. Signed sworn statement of James Ragsdale in, Ragsdale Productions Inc., The Jim Ragsdale Story: A Closer Look at the Roswell Incident (Hall Poorbough Press, Inc., 1996), 10–11, and signed sworn statement of James Ragsdale in Karl T. Pflock, Roswell in Perspective (Washington, D.C.: Fund for UFO Research, 1994), 167.
166. Ragsdale.
167. Frank J. Kaufman, interview with Kevin Randle and Donald Schmitt, January 27, 1990.
168. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
169. Ragsdale.
170. ibid.
171. Berliner and Friedman, 92.
172. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Maltais interview.
173. ibid., Knight interview.
174. ibid., Anderson interview.
175. ibid., Maltais interview.
176. ibid.
177. ibid., Anderson interview.
178. Ragsdale.
179. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
180. ibid., Maltais interview.
181. ibid., Anderson interview.
182. ibid.
183. ibid., Maltais interview.
184. ibid., Anderson interview.
185. Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, The Roswell Incident (New York: Berkley, 1980), 61.
186. Berliner and Friedman, 92.
187. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
188. Berliner and Friedman, 91.
189. ibid.
190. ibid., 92.
191. ibid., 91.
192. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Maltais interview.
193. Berliner and Friedman, 93.
194. ibid., 93–94.
195. ibid., 92.
196. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
197. Berliner and Friedman, 106.
198. Ragsdale.
199. ibid.
200. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
201. ibid.
202. Ragsdale.
203. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
204. ibid.
205. ibid.
206. Berliner and Friedman, 106.
207. Ragsdale.
208. Berliner and Friedman, 107.
209. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
210. ibid.
211. Ragsdale.
212. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
213. Ragsdale.
214. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
215. Ragsdale.
216. Recollections of Roswell, Part II, Anderson interview.
217. ibid.
218. Berliner and Friedman, 107.