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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…
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7. Memo, Brig Gen James L. Cole, Jr., AF/SE, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review
on Records Management Procedures with Weather Balloons, Unidentified
Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 14, 1994
8. Memo, Col Michael W. Schoenfeld, SAF/AQL, for SAF/AA, subj: GAO
Review on Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 22,
1994
9. Memo, Col Steve 0. Ouzts, AF!X.OWP, for SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO Review on
Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather Balloons,
Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 9, 1994
10. Memo, Grace T. Rowe, SAF/AAIQ, for SAF/AAI, SAF/AAZ, subj: GAO
Review of Records Management Procedures Dealing with Weather
Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash Incidents ... , March 10,
1994
11. Memo with Attachment, Richard S. Rauschkolb, AFHRA/CC, for AF/HO,
SAFIAAZ, subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures
Dealing· with Weather Balloons, Unknown Aircraft, and Similar Crash
Incidents ... , March 8, 1994
12. Memo, with Attachments, Edward C. Mishler, HQ AFOSIIHO, for SAF/AAZ,
subj: GAO Review on Records Management Procedures ... , May 11,
1994
13. Records Searched
14. Letter, Lt Col Thomas Badger, Jr., HQ/AAF, to Commanding General, AMC,
subj: Issuance of Orders, June 5, 1947
15. Appointment Book and Diary, Lt Gen Hoyt S. Vandenberg, July 7-9, [1947],
and July 5-9, 1947
16. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, [July 9, 1947]
17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret), May 24, 1994
18. Interview, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF (Ret),
[May 24, 1994]
19. Letters, Brig GenE. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946; Lt
Col W.H. Congdon and Col D.P. Graul to Commanding General AMC,
September 9, 1947; and Brig Gen Tom C. Rives to Commanding General
AAF, September 10, 1947
20. Statement, Athelstan F. Spilhaus, June 3, 1994
21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon
Train Drawings, August 28, 1992
22. Statement, Albert C. Trakowski, June 29, 1994
23. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor
Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994
24. Interview, [Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with] Col Albert C.
Trakowski, USAF (Ret), June 29, 1994
25. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2

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