The Air Force publishes "The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert"
In 1995 Headquarters United States Air Force published "The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert", reproducing the report Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1st Lt. James McAndrew had prepared for the Secretary of the Air Force and the General Accounting Office after Representative Steven H. Schiff asked about an alleged 1947 UFO crash in New Mexico. Weaver's report, dated 27 July 1994, came with 33 attachments, among them McAndrew's synopsis of balloon research. The publication states that the Declassification and Review Team found no evidence of any extraterrestrial craft or alien flight crew, and it attributes the debris recovered near Roswell to Project MOGUL, a formerly Top Secret balloon project.
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- The report was written in response to a request from Representative Steven H. Schiff (R-NM) and duplicates the material given to the Secretary of the Air Force and the GAO, with an added photograph section.
- The Secretary of the Air Force directed a complete records search, and classified information was to be declassified and officials freed from secrecy oaths.
- It states that the Declassification and Review Team "found no evidence of any extraterrestrial craft or alien flight crew".
- It identifies Project MOGUL, a programme to detect Soviet nuclear detonations and ballistic missile launches using balloon trains more than 600 feet long, as the explanation for the "Roswell Incident".
- It names NYU flight No. 4, launched by Charles B. Moore on June 4, 1947, as the balloon train most likely to have caused the incident.
Documents
- Report The Roswell Report: Fact vs. Fiction in the New Mexico Desert USAF / The Black Vault· 1995· 882 pp.