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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. 6 …At National Archives II in College Park, MD, Allen Lewis graciously provided access to their excellent…
  • p. 40 …with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like Marcel, is deceased. Although there…
  • p. 104 …lie relieved 1st Lt Lewis C. Bohanan who t'l&.s transferred to the 70lst ·AA…
  • p. 106 …station, datod 18 July 1947. 1st Lt. Lewis c. Bohanan. former commanding o£ticer of the…
  • p. 169 …Fort Lewis, I think he ... SC: Was it Lewis or McChord? I don't remember. Anyway…
  • p. 177 …page 61. "According to Lewis Rickett, one of the CIC Agents, he, with the commander of…
  • p. 182 …Eighty two year old Lewis Rickett. 'Cavitt had been there the day before, but he wouldn…
  • p. 318 …Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and MSgt Lewis Rickett, to evaluate the debris. The officers collected…
  • p. 408 …under the direction of Captain Stanley C. Lewis, from the 4149th AFBU, MIDDLETCM'N, PENNSYLVANIA. The…
  • p. 804 …54 and left Newark about 145 pm. Lewis, pilot; Clowry, co- pilot. Arrived Oklahoma City about…
  • p. 808 …Feb 27 Thurs. Arrived)Newark 9 am. Lewis, Duff,Mosher a request? in from Y.iddletown…
  • p. 809 …Worked on Alamogordo plans - Lewis & Clowry over this pm and we went over all future plans…
  • p. 810 …onnel - 41493: Lewis, Wolk, Burnhoff, Adams, Duff • Worked some on instrument calibrations. Lewis, Ball and I…
  • p. 811 …11 and went out to Dona -- 8aptain Lewis and myself at Launching Area site. V-2…
  • p. 814 …All NYU personnel and John Aaden off on B-17 - Lewis, Gallagher. Went over to Alamogordo…
RW: 700 CIC was the Headquarters?
SC: Yes, I don't think I even made a report to them, which I normally would if there was
anything at all unusual.
RW: Do you remember the newspaper? It actually was, I think, July 7, 194 7, where this now
famous newspaper says they found a "flying disc" in RosweU? That was actually the Roswell
paper, that was the first one. How about you, Mary, do you remember that at all?
SC: I don't remember it. We took the local paper to get some weather reports.
MC: We were so new there. In fact, I think I had just been there just maybe just a few days
because I bad been up to my sister's wedding and I don't think at that time we might not even
been taking the paper. We heard no ...
SC: I don't remember anything in the paper.
MC: We heard nothing. Of course, we didn't associate with people on the base, either.
RW: Yeah, I understand.
MC: We were brand new. Jesse and Salazar were best mends. At that ... starting about the first
of July on.
RW: After you found this, Sir, do you remember any sort unusual activity occurring? Like a big
military alert, or people going out to the base and large numbers of high security?
SC: No. The reason I wouldn't have been involved in anything like that, ifthere was any activity
like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with counter-
intelligence. It looked to me, somebody lost a weather balloon. I couldn't care less... tough luck.
RW: But when you went out and saw this material, there was no doubt in your mind that it was
some sort of man made material? And, you though at the time was a weather baBoon, some sort
of balloon?
SC: When I first saw it.
RW: When you said the wreckage wasn't very much, could you, was it as long as your house
here, or just a small little clump?
SC: Maybe as long as this room is wide.
RW: So, twenty feet maybe?

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