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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. 31 …SEARCH STRATEGY AND METHODOLOGY To insure senior Air Force leadership that there were no hidden or…
  • p. 32 …Secretary of the Air Force or the Senior Security Official of the Air Force that would…
  • p. 34 …Besides the obvious irregularity and illegality of keeping such information from the most senior Air Force…
  • p. 106 n1e Public Information Office was host during the mon~~ to the Senior Air Scouts of ~ie…
  • p. 163 …Sir, you were the senior officer and the commander at the detachment there at Roswell?
  • p. 164 …The senior was a Master Sergeant by the name of Rickett and the young agent, Jack…
  • p. 170 …implying that was you, since you were the senior guy. SC: rmjust reading this end quote…
  • p. 177 …But Rickett, the Provost Marshal and the senior intelligence officer walked into the debris field, examined…
  • p. 227 …Because I was a senior at Georgia Tech in a chemical engineering course with a fair…
  • p. 260 …I would have thought, since Crary was a senior person and he and Peoples, Peoples was…
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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