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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 …Major Marcel and "a man in plain clothes" then accompanied Brazel home to pick up the…
  • p. 29 …sort of attachment may have been used. Brazel said that he had previously found two weather…
  • p. 38 …of rancher W.W. Brazel). Affidavit dated May 5, 1991. " ... Brazel came to my ranch and…
  • p. 39 …The color of the printing was a kind of purple ...." Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W…
  • p. 43 …and was ultimately found by the rancher, Brazel, ten days later. This possibility was supported by…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …source of the wreckage recovered from the Brazel Ranch was from one of the Project MOGUL…
  • p. 75 …For e:wnple:. • According to his son arid neighbors, Brazel was held incommunicado by officials at…
  • p. 172 …Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 174 …certainly don't remember ever meeting Mr. Brazel or Brazzel, whatever his name was. RW: O…
  • p. 187 …a follow up article where they interview Brazel (the rancher), and he descnoed this stuff almost…
  • p. 218 …material that was found, supposedly by Mac Brazel, somewhere northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. They talk…
  • p. 222 …Going back to Brazel, you state that you think it could not be one of the…
  • p. 233 …The description that Brazel gives here that everything would weigh about five pounds when it was…
  • p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
  • p. 318 THE ROSWELL INCIDENT On July 7, 1947, W.W. (Mac) Brazel, a rancher from approximately 75…
  • p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the photos of the…
  • p. 328 …were later reported by Marcel, Cavitt, and Brazel as being on the debris found on the…
  • p. 379 …anywhere on the instrument, al- Brazel was brought here late ty, age 14, went back to…
  • p. 986 …of the type that W.W. "Mac" Brazel recovered on a ranch near Corona, NM, in…
SC: Some here, some here, some here. No concentration of it. No marks in the ground, dug up,
anything hidden, or anything like that, just out on the territory around the bottom of New Mexico,
just good for growing sheep - they don't eat too well.
RW: Yeah, I don't imagine. They probably have to eat on the run out there. Do you remember
at the time the article or the photo of General Ramey and Marcel holding up a piece of material?
Have you seen that since that time?
SC: Oh y~ I have seen it, yeah. but at the time I don't recall seeing anything like that.
RW: In that photo, actually there are four separate photos there, Marcel, I think in two of them,
is holding up material. Does that look like the material that you picked up out in the desert?
Actually it's in this book if you don't mind ...
MC: I was going to say that I think it's in there.
SC: I don't remember ... Yeah, Yeah, that's ...
.RW: The first picture is actually with Jesse Marcel and that's General Blanchard and ...
SC: I think this was taken at the Headquarters at Carswell.
RW: Yeah, that's right. That's correct.
SC: And I obviously... Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ...
RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look like they substituted anything from what you found?
SC: No, No.
RW: Is this about the extent of the material? I realize you can't see all of it in any of the pictures.
Or was there large... could you fill up an airplane with it?
SC: Oh, good God! You couldn't fill up (unintelligtble) with it. Yeah, I can't tell what those
sticks look like. But, as I recall, to me they look like bamboo or some sort of very smalllav type
material ripped out.
RW: Could you break them or bend them, or...
SC: I didn't try.
RW: O.K.
SC: It was someone else's balloon as far as I was concerned. I didn't want to fool around with it.

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