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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. 5 …at the National Air Intelligence Center, Wright Patterson AFB, OH. Mr. Ashcroft gave freely of his…
  • p. 7 …Walker, Historian, Air Force Materiel Command, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH; TSgt. Donald Valentine, Administrative Specialist, 89th…
  • p. 30 …to Wright Field, now known as Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. The latter location was the home…
  • p. 51 …and then to what is now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio. In 1989, NBC…
  • p. 71 …We also attach a report from the National Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) at Wright-Patterson AFB…
  • p. 76 …the crash site and transported to Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio. BACKGROUND. In 1993, Congressman Steven Schifffrom…
  • p. 77 …s) and/or alien(s) at Wright-Patterson. Because this conclusion is based on the absence…
  • p. 202 …therefore sent it to him at Wright Patterson- -not because it was extraterrestial) It is a…
  • p. 222 …The Kaysam company in Patterson made a cast neoprene emulsion into a mold~ and then they…
  • p. 309 …And that a flight had been set up to send it to Wright Patterson AFB OH…
  • p. 767 …Rigney 2/10/47 Contracting Officer Watson Laboratories Red Bank, New Jersey 2/11/47 Patterson…
  • p. 805 …S-_54 left El Paso 400 pm , landed in Patterson ~ield, Dayton, Ohio 110ar. Dec 20…
  • p. 806 …P-47 left :'ewark 133 pm, landed at Patterson for fuel, landed at Tinker Field, Okla…
  • p. 808 …left Tinker ~ield 10 and landed at Patterson. Off from patterson to Olmsted, Olmsted at 9pm…
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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