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STATEMENT OF WITNESS Place : San Antonio, TX Date: 25 May 95 I, Dan D. Fulgham, Col, USAF (Ret), hereby state that James McAndrew was identified as a Lieutenant, USAFR on this date at my place of employment 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 influence or unlawful inducement. I entered the U.S. Air Force in 1952 as an aviation cadet. I flew F-84s on 100 combat missions during the Korean war. After a tour as a flight instructor I was assigned to the Aero Medical Laboratory at Wrig…

nurses attending to me. I also do not recall that a black NCO was present nor do I recall any civilian men in the hospital. I do not recall that Capt Kittenger was involved in an altercation of any kind while we were there. After I was treated and released we all flew back to Holloman on the helicopter. At Holloman I was admitted to the hospital and had blood aspirated from under my scalp. I remember my forehead drooping down, I had to use my fingers to open my eyelids, and I had to sleep sitting up. Several days later I returned to Wright Patterson with Capt Kittenger and Capt Kaufman. My wif…

Colonel Dan D. Fulgham "Roswell Incident" San Antonio, Texas 26 May 1995 Interviewer: lst Lt James McAndrew Os We spoke about the investigation that was conducted last year. The Secretary of the Air Force was asked by the General Accounting Office to look into some information about what's been known as the Roswell Incident. We've looked into that and we wrote a quite lengthy report last summer, and I provided you a copy. After that investigation we've come to determine that perhaps some of the people were relating not something that happened in 1947, but something that happened to you persona…

FULGHAM - 5/26/95 the command coordinator for aviation physiology, since I'd gone through aviation physiological training while at Webb. I was command coordinator for what then became the Air Training Command. That sort of made me visible and eligible for an assignment tO Ali WMeciGel beloOrecorcies ait Wieileime-Paccecsom, I wlmilinkk I GBeporeed im there im late 957 eo the Aim Med Lab, and was pilaced in change © all: Of the high altitude chambens ate Wright [Paw It was during that period of time I became involved in the space program. The Air Force had a man-in-space program that was, all O…

FULGHAM - 5/26/95 commander asked me to take on the additional duty of supervising the X-15 para-rescue team, which I did. And that lead me more into how to parachuting in support of the X-20 and the Gemini PeOCiccim Owhe Cue Hil Cemeco, Calieomula, Wrac alli occeuiccese am cae mid-60's. im L966 L was SEISGESe Ol ain ASSiLeMMNeine tO WiSteineim eine! I went through F-4 training at George Air Force Base, reporting to pice Elying: wimo under Colonel Rebun Oldseimn the fale or ICG, as ferecaiik he was, doom in October, i began flying combate almost immediately in the TAC fighter wing. I was a mem…

FULGHAM - 5/26/95 sciences and human factors research. My present position is Director of Biosciences and Bioengineering for Southwest Research IMSEHEUES Gn San Antonio. For eight yeans © have been im that OSH lon. Ox Okay. Well, now welll go back to Ehe situation that we think you may have become a part of, the mythology surrounding this Roswell incident. If you could just briefly describe how you became involved in the high-altitude ballooning with Captain, now Colonel, Joe Kittinger. A: I don't remember th xact mode we took in order to get involved in the program, other than we just, it was…

FULGHAM - 5/26/95 Or This was before the hot air balloon would even have been invented. INE mesic Oz And was widely used. A: Right. It was just installed helium, and the Air Force was the only, the military was the only people that could afford helium in those days, and so we did the majority of all the helium ballooning, the Air borce and the Navy. We went to the CAA or whatever it was called in those days and asked them to issue balloon licenses, and the best they could come up with was a student pilot license, and I think they just aco itrasitlhy, sald, wvoulve Gor to have x numbdcrm Om anc…

FULGHAM —- 5/26/95 A: We had been flying all night, and as daylight approached, you know, it became light enough to see the ground, we valved off some gas and went down and started shooting practice landings -- touch and go landings -- and Kittinger instructed us how to stand on the outside of the gondola and when ie eouched down On Ene Ground gust co jumo oft, anc chat would give enough rebound to the balloon that it would go bouncing back TQeO en te ae way we didmit Nave ro ume bal lacie en Gjlae away. And you just had to scramble to hold onto the side of the gondola from the outside. And Jo…