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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. 28 …at Roswell Army Air Field, Major Jesse A. Marcel, had recovered a "flying disc" from the…
  • p. 38 …Marcel, MD (son of the late Major Jesse Marcel; 11 years old at the time of…
  • p. 39 …and Maj Jesse Marcel. Capt. William E. Anderson said it was from a flying saucer. After…
  • p. 75 …The base Intelligence Officer, Jesse A. Marcel. and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt, went…
  • p. 159 …I did know both Jesse Marcel and Bill Rickett very well (both are now deceased). I…
  • p. 163 …Did you know a Major Jesse Marcel who was the Intelligence Officer during Roswell at that…
  • p. 167 …The first picture is actually with Jesse Marcel and that's General Blanchard and ... SC: I…
  • p. 172 …Jesse Marcel was one. "The intelligence and the CIC responded to the phone call. Jesse Marcel…
  • p. 173 …I remember we were at the Marcel's house and I can remember Jesse had something…
  • p. 185 …Neol (Marcel's wife) apparently was not able to give any infonnation after Jesse died.
  • p. 188 …He wouldn't have known anything with Jesse? SC: No. No. Jesse didn't trust Don…
  • p. 217 …Army Airfield who actuall} went out with Jesse Marcel to recover some material that has b…
  • p. 219 …and had a few beers and that Jesse Marcel just took a piece and stuck it…
  • p. 379 …originally gave tbe'<information of Jesse_. A. Mateel and a m~n In up the tinfoil…
  • p. 990 …Jesse Marcel. Crashed saucer theorists allege that the debris depicted with Major Marcel is not the…
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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