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The Roswell Report: Fact versus Fiction in the New Mexico Desert was published in 1995 by Headquarters United States Air Force. It was written in response to Representative Steven H. Schiff's request and a General Accounting Office audit, and it contains Col. Richard L. Weaver's report and 1st Lt. James McAndrew's synopsis, along with attachments, appendices and photographs. The report says researchers found no evidence of an extraterrestrial craft or crew. It concludes that the 1947 debris came from a Project MOGUL balloon train.

  • p. 14 …Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," February 10, 1949 24. New York University, Constant…
  • p. 26 INTRODUCTION Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as the "Roswell Incident…
  • p. 33 …Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) (f) AF /XOW, Directorate of Weather (g) added later The Air Force…
  • p. 43 …a "service flight" that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
  • p. 56 …of air vehicle and other eras~ incidents similar to the reported crash of a weather balloon…
  • p. 99 …390th Air Service Sqdn - No AFHRA files for June/July 1947. 1395th Military Police - No AFHRA…
  • p. 226 …required to track them, issued to the weather services here in New Mexico. Obviously, after the…
  • p. 228 …Used by the Weather Service. A: We have one of the stations here on campus. actually…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 309 …The base weather covered only the base the flight service center covered most of the southwest…
  • p. 318 …it out to wire services. Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 328 …Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," Feb H), 1949.
  • p. 731 …3. "Analysis of Japanese Weather Service", Air Vveather Service Technical Report 45-1, Langley Field, Virginia…
  • p. 847 …by Brigadier General D.N.Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service" February 10, 1949
  • p. 978 …In reality, Andrews AAF was the home of the Army Air Forces Air Weather Service and…
Summary and Conclusions
The Historical Research Agency is primarily a repository for unit histories and
supporting documents, and it has never routinely received the kind of records which
might provide details of the Roswell incident H such records survive today, they will
undoubtedly be held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA),
either at the Washington National Records Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional
Depository (Fort Worth, Texas).
Recommendations
Because the records management policy of the federal government requires that obsolete
office files be retired to the NAAA the WNRC and the NARA Southwest Regional
Depository might be searched for files related to the Roswell incident
AFHRA microfilm roll33,764 indicates that the Fourth Air Force and its A-2 intelligence
section apparently carried out investigations of flying disks in the western US in 1947.
Research in the NARA, therefore, might reasonably include a search for surviving HQ
Fourth AF and Fourth AF A-2 Section files in the NARA.
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YAMES H. KITCHENS, m, PhD
Archivist
Inquiries Branch
Appendix
1. 509 BG History, Jun/Jul47
2 Extract from "Flying Disks 1947'' W I0
3. Bailon Operations at AFMDC, 1947-1950, pp 1-2
JkW).~
RICHARD S. RAUSCHI<OLB
Colonel, USAF
Commander

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