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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. 18 …Trakowski, a young Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate, followed Duffy in the leadership role. Determining whether…
  • p. 27 …It is within this context that the following research and assistance efforts were conducted in support…
  • p. 38 …the object found resem- bles a high altitude weather balloon with a radar reflector.... disc and…
  • p. 51 …The crash o( a mysterous object 75 miles northwest of Roswell, which the Air Force lat…
  • p. 98 …In addition, the following rubrics were identified for insertion into the Agency's finding aids: Roswell…
  • p. 99 related to unidentified flying objects and/ or the crash of a weather balloon near the base…
  • p. 100 …The following key words or phases were entered: ROSWELL UFO UFOS UNIDENTIFIED FLYING OBJECT UNIDENTIFIED FLYING…
  • p. 115 HO Input tor 8 Peb 89 Statt Meetin& The following are two old Uems from the…
  • p. 325 …The objective during this trip was to experiment with the newly developed polyethylene balloons which replaced…
  • p. 512 …The primary objective of such telemetering was to collect data to evaluate the altitude controls applied…
  • p. 596 …the valve stuck and a constant flow at 1800 grams per hour followed. The rising ceiling…
HO Input tor 8 Peb 89 Statt Meetin&
The following are two old Uems from the APOSI archives. Porty rears yo,
representatives ot US inve•tisat1ve and intellisence aaencies met in the
southwestern United States. Tbe7 decided District 17, Kirtland APB, NK, would
be responsible tor the overall collection and reportiD& on aerial phenomena.
These phenomena, later termed unidentified tlrins objects or UPOs, had been
s1&hted with some trequencf in the New Mexico area. !his program was
initiallJ called Project Sian, then Project Grundse, and was renamed Project
Blue Book in 1951. NOTB: APOSI turned over all it1 investiaative tiles
pertaining to this project to the National Archives in 197Etr TwentY rears
!&2,, in response to the increasinc drug problem in the Air Porce, OSI took
ateps to provide additional training. District 17 sponsored a narcotics
seminar at Kirtland AFB, NM, which 225 people from state and local law
enforcement aaencies as well as OSI aaente attended. OSI also developed an
advanced Narcotics Investigations Course designed to teach the latest technics
in combatting drug abuse.

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