[109.] High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part II, 17.

[110.] High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 27–30 and High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops, Part II, 6, 10–12, 17.

[111.] Joseph W. Kittinger, Jr., Col., USAF (Ret), interview with 1st Lt. James McAndrew, June 23, 1995.

[112.] Contributions of Balloon Operations to Research and Development at the Air Force Missile Development Center, 1947–1958, 90, and Meteorological Aspects of Constant-Level Balloon Operations in the Southwestern United States, 1.

[113.] High Altitude Balloon Dummy Drops Part I, 24.

[114.] Blankenship and Kittinger.

[115.] ibid.

[116.] Memorandum, subj: 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.”

[117.] ibid., and Blankenship.

[118.] Charles Berlitz and William L. Moore, The Roswell Incident (New York: Berkley, 1980), 64, and Don Berliner and Stanton Friedman, Crash at Corona (New York: Paragon House, 1992), 88.