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Black Vault compilation, pp. 91-93

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This Black Vault compilation contains a September 1997 reply from the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense to John Greenewald's FOIA request, enclosing its UFO records. The enclosures include a Navy information sheet dismissing the Philadelphia Experiment and an Air Force UFO fact sheet listing 12,618 Project Blue Book sightings, 701 of them unidentified. They also include the National Academy of Sciences review endorsing the University of Colorado report and the concluding pages of a 1994 Air Force Roswell report attributing the wreckage to Project MOGUL.

  • p. 107 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 108 …not compare the descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project…
  • p. 111 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
  • p. 114 …When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
  • p. 115 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
  • p. 116 example, it was originally reported that there was only recovery· of debris from one site. This…
  • p. 118 …the exact location(s) of the purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
  • p. 121 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
  • p. 124 …There were three categories of debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
  • p. 125 …The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were .small…
  • p. 126 accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence…
  • p. 129 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 130 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 132 …This organiza- tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
  • p. 134 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon…
who are said to have known all about MOGUL, apparently did not compare the
descriptions of the suspect debris with that of the components of a Project MOGUL
balloon train. MOGUL reports and documents that contain descriptions, illustrations, and
photographs have been publicly available for at least twenty years. Had the researchers
completed even a cursory comparison, they would have found that the materials were
suspiciously similar; detailed examination would have shown them to be one and the
- same. In the final analysis, it appears these individuals have pursued the convenient red
herring provided by Roswell Anny Airfield, while the real explanation lay just over the
Sacramento Mountains at the MOGUL launch site in Alamogordo.
This repon explains the events that transpired in and near Roswell, .New Mexico, in the
summer of 1947. It is based on written documentation and first-hand accounts of
participants, all of which are provided here in their entirety. While these answers are not
as titillating as tales of uneanhly craft and creatures, it is a fascinating story nonetheless.
JAMES McANDREW, 1ST LT, USAFR
Declassification and Review Officer
SAFIAAZD
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