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STATEMENT OF WITNESS Place: Alamogordo, NM Date: 28 May 95 I, Ole Jorgeson, MSgt, USAF, (Ret), hereby state that James McAndrew was 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 influence or unlawful inducement. I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1957 and became a Ground Communications and Electronic Repairman. I remained in this career field throughout my career. I completed three tours at the Balloon Branch at Holloman AFB, NM. I…

I participated in many, probably more than 100, balloon recoveries. I often recovered payloads and balloons from the area surrounding Roswell, NM. It was routine to be directed by the balloon control center fo an area near Roswell to wait to recover a balloon. We would wait along the side of the road, at small airports, or at the armory in Roswell. It would not be uncommon for our recovery vehicles to be seen waiting to recover balloons throughout New Mexico, Arizona, and West Texas. When we recovered the balloons and payloads sometimes civilians would be in the area and make inquires. We woul…

Ole Jorgeson VROSwell Incident 28 May, 1995 Interviewer: lst Lt James McAndrew Os We're at the home of Ole Jorgeson, Master Sergeant, US Air Force, Retired. And we're discussing his involvement in what people are now describing as the "Roswell Incident." Well, I spoke with you previously and we discussed a situation that came up during your Air Force career that we think people have been misrepresenting to say that there was a flying saucer, an alien body, and things, like thas. T'll just outline what we're doing and what we're working on is, last summer we produced a large report for the Secr…

BION = 5/28/95 into electronics and passed it and consequently took the second phase of basic training at Lackland in lieu of, at the tech school where they give you your second MEI» OI aie, wis you wall, ANacl airceir chai, I was assigned -- and I was assigned as a ground communication and electronic repairman because I had about four or five years of electronic experience as a young kid and had my vadio amaveur’s lacense. My first assignment was at Carswell Air Force Base where I stayed for about six months. That was in '58 Uintciil,,, Ames L winuieined Wits cle loasie I wen Seeaicgince tO C…

JORGESON - 5/28/95 just go on and just tell me some of the other positions that you held throughout your Air Force career? A: Sure. Well, £ came here March of "59 as a young two-striper. I made, at that time Jt was called Arcman 2nd Class, and i made Airman sit class and: statt sergeant in the balloon branch. I left the balloon branch in 1966. i believe. it was Uukhy Of M966, 8m can look that up. ~i'm sure 1 have the intormation. Os You did quite a whilés That's whate uwo EOuUmS? A: No, that was one tour. Os One tour? A: And the joke was you had to get discharged -- you Nad to retire on get di…

RON = S/ 28/95 and that meant research. And so I used that to get back. At that time it was a special assignment and I did receive orders to come back to the balloon branch. I returned as a tech sergeant in '69. My assignment in Germany, when I went to Germany, by the way, I was in 2nd Mobile Com Group in charge of heavy transmitters and receivers and so forth and crypto-clearance because we were part of NATO as well. Q: (Affirmative response) ING Anyway, when I came back to the balloon branch, for a short while, we had a captain in charge. He Vere, oh, within six momths, and then © eook over …

HSON: 2) 5/28/95 EC prOViece, Highwise, i chunks no, maybe, yes. I guess it was Highrise. Os And how large was that balloon? ING Oh, gosh. Lt was the dargest thing Going. Os lt was: lake 40 tons... A: BOREYeelghe? — Something Iliske that. i thank ie was. It went to 160 to 170 thousand feet anyway. And then Powent, from ehere, if went to -- my sour years were just about up. And they gave me an assignment to go to Guam to be in charge of scope control down in Guam, and I didn't know what scope control was. But anyway, that was what they called the president's communication system was called. SO,…

BSON = 5/28/95 SO you did syou sun back for your thiaad NS That was my third tour, yes. O: So what year was that? A: Bhat was in 197-5. anda rel in Es SO 2 Spent abou 13 and a halt years in 1 Floon branch. After I retired I went to work for Raytheon as a field engineer for them. But only for two months then my daughter had some problems. I was going to go overseas with them. I couldn't take her with me so I terminated that job and went to work for Dynalectron as a site chief on the range and worked there for the next five years but my back kept on giving me problems. I wound up in the hospital…