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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.

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  • p. 5 …Additionally, historians Alfred Beck, William Heimdahl, Roger Miller, Eduard Mark, and Jacob Neufeld shared with us…
  • p. 10 …Security markings have been deleted from previously classified documents. The reader is advised that blacked-out…
  • p. 35 …covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The researchers noted…
  • p. 39 …I do not recall any other types of material or markings, nor do I remember seeing…
  • p. 41 figures on the sticks, lavender or pink in color, appeared to be weather faded markings, with…
  • p. 51 …UFO buffs contend the incident marked the beginning of a government conspiracy to sup- press evidence…
  • p. 99 …Although we cannot be absolutely sure that the histories marked "no holding" in the above list…
  • p. 167 …No marks in the ground, dug up, anything hidden, or anything like that, just out on…
  • p. 201 …Some bush pilot had found some pock marks in dty snow in Alaska in 1950. So…
  • p. 219 …When this purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately remembered this sort of…
  • p. 220 …men, and they were joking about these markings on the tape. I have a letter that…
  • p. 224 …No, because he said it was balsa sticks and smoky rubber and had those curious markings…
  • p. 230 …White Sands to record Hermes." I've marked the key things here with red, and then…
  • p. 309 …in color, appeared to be weather faded markings, with no rhyme or reason. He did not…
  • p. 329 …the wreckage, also remembers the purple/pink marks. Newton stated that when he was called to…
  • p. 558 …On this flight re- cord, marked oscillations are observed at three points. Despite the presence of…
  • p. 563 …KENT, TEXAS Figure 25 On Flight 71 marked oscillations are seen at the fleeting level and…
  • p. 566 …From the height-t~e curve of this flight (Figure 29) the very marked effect of…
  • p. 567 …Pre- sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60.000 feet carried this second flight…
  • p. 667 …Figure 46 shows the train; figure 47 shows the time-altitude curve, Which exhibits a marked…
  • p. 910 …minute, the distance between successive re- ference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de- -56-
  • p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be- tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden -61-
  • p. 920 …are reached. (c) Check pressure of the marking pens. Too much pressure of the pens on…
  • p. 923 …This may be done by measuring the horizontal distance be- tween the temperature and pressure marks…
26. Photographs, Project MOGUL Balloon Trains
27. Table No.7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights, November 20,
1946-July 5, 1947
28. Museums Contacted
29. Blueprint, Comer Reflector, ML-307C/AP Assembly
30. Statement, Irving Newton, July 21,1994
31. Photographs, ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris
32. Synopsis of Balloon Research Findings, with Memorandum
for SAF/AAZ, Att: Colonel Richard~. Weaver, by
James McAndrew, 1st Lt, USAFR
Attachments to the McAndrew Synopsis:
1. Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, [July 9, 1947]
2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories, January 20, 1947
3. Drawing, NYU Cluster Flight No. 2
4. Illustrations, AN/CRT-1 Sonabuoy
5. Blueprint, Comer Reflector, ML-307C/AP Assembly
6. Table No. 7, Summary of NYU Constant-Level Balloon Flights, November
20, 1946-September 9, 1947
7. Map of New Mexico
8. Illustration, Weather Balloon and Comer Reflector
9. Letter, Brig GenE. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946
10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992
11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is Exlained Here: News Men
Watch Army Radar Crew Launch 'Disc'," July 10, 1947
Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis:
1. Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947
2. Interview, Col Richard L. Weaver with Lt Col Sheridan D. Cavitt, USAF
(Ret), [May 24, 1994]
3. Statement, Irving Newton, July 21, 1994
4. Letter, Lt Col Edward A. Doty to Mr David Bushnell, March 3, 1959
5. Letter, Brig GenE. O'Donnell to Commanding General AAF, July 8, 1946
6. Report, Maurice Ewing for General Carl Spaatz, "Long Range Sound
Transmission in the Atmosphere," n.d. ·
7. Report, HQ Fitzwilliam Fwd, "Sonic Balloon Test Kwajalein," May 17,
1948
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