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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. 13 …Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is Exlained Here: News Men Watch Army Radar Crew Launch…
  • p. 25 …allegedly recovered remains of a crashed "flying disc" near Roswell, New Mexico. In February, 1994, the…
  • p. 28 …Marcel, had recovered a "flying disc" from the range lands of an unidentified rancher in the…
  • p. 36 …the month answering inquiries on the 'flying disc,' which was reported to be in possession of…
  • p. 37 …7, he was busy with a "flying disc" incident; however this particular incident involved Ellington Field…
  • p. 38 …The disc is hexagonal in shape and was suspended from a balloon by a cable, which…
  • p. 43 …Concerning the initial announcement, "RAAF Captures Flying Disc," research failed to locate any documented evidence as…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …Marcel in originally reporting that a "flying disc" had been recovered when, at that time, nobody…
  • p. 75 …Haut, issued a news release that the Amry Air Force had recovered ''lying disc." Some of…
  • p. 99 …the Office of Public Affairs and "flying disc" activities in GP-509-Hl, July 1947, p…
  • p. 100 …produced no documents concerned with a flying disc and/or weather balloon crash at Roswell AAFld…
  • p. 105 …kept quite busy during the monti1 answering inquiries on the "flying disc", which.was reported to…
  • p. 144 …they understand these discs are a u.s. rlane that is still on the secret list…
  • p. 145 …Vandenberg's directive that he run dotm the story about the fiying discs. Col. W• .t…
  • p. 166 …famous newspaper says they found a "flying disc" in RosweU? That was actually the Roswell paper…
  • p. 206 …announcement was made concerning having · folUld the "discs". When we heard the news back in New…
  • p. 254 …Here's the morning paper, "Report flying disc found." Down here is about Colonel J.D…
  • p. 318 …debris may be part of a "flying disc."1 The sheriff conta<;ted Roswell (Army Air…
  • p. 325 …and was subsequently identified as a "flying disc" by personnel from Roswell AAF was, with a…
  • p. 326 …It should also be understood that the term "flying disc" was not at this time synonymous…
  • p. 327 …A device described in 11 crashed disc" publications as II a giant thermos jug" was allegedly…
  • p. 328 …made up Project MOGUL.40 While crashed disc proponents claim that General Ramey ordered a "colonel…
  • p. 329 …of the office was a crashed "flying disc." Newton, having seen many weather balloons and targets…
  • p. 331 …rumors that the "capture" of a "flying disc" occurred, ultimately left many people with unanswered questions…
  • p. 373 11 Alamogordo News "Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is Explained Here: News Men Watch Army Raqar Crew…
  • p. 430 …This report consists of a disc,1ssion o.f instrumentation for balloon systems, techniques for launching…
SC: Yes, I guess you could say that. I was the only commissioned officer. I had two enJisted
agents "working for me" quote end quote.
RW: Who were the enlisted agents that worked for you?
SC: The senior was a Master Sergeant by the name of Rickett and the young agent, Jack
Williams. I later had some other people working for me after CIC deceased and OSI took over
for the Air Force... the investigative agency.
RW: That actually came, I think, in September when the Air Force first stated. You were one of
the charter members of OS I, as I understand?
SC: Yeah, over from CIC and OSI; and then I went to OSI school later.
RW: You reported through your chain of command? You didn't report to General Blanchard,
the Base Commander? You reported like we did in OSI through the separate chain of command,
as I understand it; is that right?
SC: Yeah, our parent organization was 700 CIC and I believe that there ... they had sort of a
branch up in Colorado at that time, but I think most of our work was sent directly back to Bolling
at that time. I am a little fuzzy on that because I wasn't in the organization very long, you know.
RW: OK. General Blanchard was the Base Commander and everyone else in the S09th basically
reported to him then?
SC: Oh yeah. Colonel Blanchard.
RW: Oh yeah. Excuse me, Colonel Blanchard.
SC: He was the Wmg Commander of the 509th, right. I didn't report to anybody on the base.
RW: Just like in OSI?
SC: Yeah, I associated and coordinated stuff with Marcel and I had no responsibility to
Blanchard or Marcel.
RW: Do you recall an incident that happened during the early part of July when you were asked
to accompany Major Marcel to go recover some wreckage of anything?
SC: Well, there again I couldn't swear to the dates, but in that time, which must have been July,
we heard that someone had found some debris out not too tar &om RosweU and it looked
suspicious; it was unidentified. So, I went out and I do DOt recall whether Marcel went with
Rickett and me; I bad Rickett with me. We went out to tbis site. There were no, as I understand,
check points or anything like that (going through guards and that sort of garbage) we went out
there and we found it. It wu a small amount o( u I recall, bamboo sticks, reflective sort of

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