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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. 165 …It never crossed my mind that it could be anything but a radio sonde. RW: How…
  • p. 226 …Obviously, trying to take something that's almost a meter in cross section, a meter on…
  • p. 432 …This system allows for accurate positioning of the balloon systems by use of crossed azemuths tram…
  • p. 443 …Hcmever, vertical cross-sections of temperature and wind were abandoned as a method of representa- tion…
  • p. 444 given point in a cross-section through the atmosphere was misleatling. In order to avoid the…
  • p. 512 …or provide a position "fix" by the crossed azi- muths of ground receiving stations. In addition…
  • p. 516 …With two sets giving crossed azi- muth "fixes" the position m~y be d~termined. If…
  • p. 546 …using a radio-equipped jeep to move cross-country at the direction of the aircraft observer…
  • p. 741 …which is shown by the balloon vector. Cross-hatched sector contains all wind vectors at these…
  • p. 816 …about 11 am. ~vent through Providence, Hartford. Crossed river at Hudson. Met rain last part of…
TRANSCRIPT OF INTERVIEW OF SHERIDAN CAVITT
(Note: RW =Col Richard L. Weaver~ SC =Sheridan Cavitt~ MC =Mary Cavitt)
RW: Today is the 24th ofMay 1994. I am in I am Colonel Richard L.
Weaver and I am talking to Lt Col Sheridan Cavitt, US Air Force, Retired. Also present in the
room is his wife, Mary. Colonel, you don't mind that I tape record this do you?
SC: Go right ahead.
RW: O.K. thank you. What I would like to ask you is to confirm you were with the Counter
Intelligence Corps (CIC) (at that time ofthe US Army) in 1947?
SC: Yes ... the Army Air Corps... right.
RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir?
SC: I went to Roswell after going to the CIC School in Baltimore, Maryland, at Camp
Holabird .. .in 1946. I do not remember the month. My wife might. It was in the Fall was it not?
MC: June of47.
SC: June?
RW: I think on your records you graduated in June of 47.
SC: From Holabird?
RW: Y~Holabird.
SC: O.K... I told you my dates are slipping my mind.
RW: 'lbat's O.K. .. I have the same problem.
SC: It's hard to remember July 47. I hadn't been there very long.
RW: Did you know a Major Jesse Marcel who was the Intelligence Officer during Roswell at that
time?
SC: Oh yes. I knew Jesse, his wife, and his son. We were very close mends. We were in the
same building in the CIC office, which was next to the intelligence office. We associated socially
as well as business.
RW: Sir, you were the senior officer and the commander at the detachment there at Roswell?

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