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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 …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…
8. Memo, Brig Gen Tom C. Rives to Maj Gen Curtis LeMay, subj: Relief of
Major R.T. Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID, June 18,
1946
9. Memo, Maj Gen Curtis E. LeMay to Maj Gen L.C. Craigie, April 16,
1947
10. New York University, Constant Level Balloons, Final Report, March 1,
1951
11. New York University, Constant Level Balloons, Section 1, General,
November 15, 1949
12. New York University, Constant Level Balloons, Section 3, Summary of
Flights, July 15, 1949
13. New York University, Technical Report No. 1, Constant Level Balloon,
April 1, 1948
14. Athelstan F. Spilhaus, C.S. Schneider, C.B. Moore, "Controlled-Altitude
Free Balloons," Journal of Meteorology, Vol. 5, August 1948
15. New York University, Progress Report No. 6, Constant Level Balloon,
Section II, June 1947
16. New York University, Special Report No.1, Constant Level Balloon, May
1947
17. Personal Journal of Albert P. Crary
18. New York University, Progress Report [No. 7], Constant Level Balloon,
Section II, July 1947
19. New York University, Progress Report No. 4, Radio Transmitting,
Receiving and Recording System for Constant Level Balloon, [Section
I], April 2, 1947
20. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor
Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994
21. Report, Holloman AFB, "Progress Summary Report on U.S.A.F. Guided
Missile Test Activities," August 1, 1948
22. Interview, [Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with] Col
Albert C.Trakowski, USAF (Ret., June 29, 1994
23. Report, Cambridge Field Station, Air Materiel Command, "Review of Air
Materiel Command Geophysical Activities by Brigadier General D.N.
Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," February 10, 1949
24. New York University, Constant Level Balloons, Section 2, Operations,
January 31, 1949
25. Combined History, 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Airfield,
September 1-30, 1947
Attachment to Colonel Weaver's Report of Air Force Research:
33. Mensuration Working Paper, with Drawing and Photo
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