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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. 31 …SEARCH STRATEGY AND METHODOLOGY To insure senior Air Force leadership that there were no hidden or…
  • p. 32 …Secretary of the Air Force or the Senior Security Official of the Air Force that would…
  • p. 34 …Besides the obvious irregularity and illegality of keeping such information from the most senior Air Force…
  • p. 106 n1e Public Information Office was host during the mon~~ to the Senior Air Scouts of ~ie…
  • p. 163 …Sir, you were the senior officer and the commander at the detachment there at Roswell?
  • p. 164 …The senior was a Master Sergeant by the name of Rickett and the young agent, Jack…
  • p. 170 …implying that was you, since you were the senior guy. SC: rmjust reading this end quote…
  • p. 177 …But Rickett, the Provost Marshal and the senior intelligence officer walked into the debris field, examined…
  • p. 227 …Because I was a senior at Georgia Tech in a chemical engineering course with a fair…
  • p. 260 …I would have thought, since Crary was a senior person and he and Peoples, Peoples was…
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
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RICHARD S. RAUSCHI<OLB
Colonel, USAF
Commander

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