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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. 40 …debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like Marcel, is…
  • p. 45 …assembly) were located at the Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A…
  • p. 75 …and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt, went to the ranch to inspect the material…
  • p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps, at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
  • p. 159 …or unlawful inducement. ~ ~I was a Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Special Agent for the US Army AU…
  • p. 163 …the Army Air Corps... right. RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir? SC: I…
  • p. 166 …activity like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with…
  • p. 168 …There was nobody else out there from CIC or Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of…
  • p. 169 …did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having…
  • p. 170 …six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another intelligence officer on the initial…
  • p. 172 …Not that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the…
  • p. 213 …Previously, I was appointed as the laboratory chief in the Signal Corps as an Air Force…
  • p. 214 …Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal Corps practices…
  • p. 217 …One of the individuals, Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence Corps officer…
  • p. 224 …Colonel Duffy was assigned to extract meteorological.equipment out of the Signal_Corps in 1943. There…
  • p. 225 …Colonel Duffy talked to the field artillery that was procuring through the Signal Corps, gun-laying…
  • p. 236 …During WWII, the ·signal Corps had laid on them the requirement to develop a constant level…
  • p. 246 …V-2s and other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White Sands. So…
  • p. 264 …I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and 270-s, etc., but this was…
  • p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and that's where we got…
  • p. 274 …I was an Air Force officer assigned to the Signal Corps as part of Colonel Duffy…
  • p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force? A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
  • p. 278 …It was the Signal Corps' responsibility to procure those targets; it was not the responsibility of…
  • p. 279 …He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps because…
  • p. 299 …a) US Army Signal Corps Museum, Ft Gordon GA Mr Ted Wise, Director, DSN 780-2818…
  • p. 318 …Maj J~sse Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and MSgt Lewis Rickett…
  • p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment from…
  • p. 517 …A modified radiosonde-type aneroid pressure capsule (Signal Corps ML 310-/) has been the basic sensing…
  • p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a rotating cylinder of insulating material…
  • p. 731 …Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight of 1934 in the Balloon 'Explorer'", Contributed Tec~ical Papers of…
  • p. 761 …4· Richard Hassard, a forEr Signal Corps Officer was hired because ot his general knowledge of…
  • p. 763 …Griffith 11/7/II:> Visking Corp. Chicago, Ill. Mr. Cahn 12/4/11:> Visking Corp. Chicago…
  • p. 764 12/16/46 Celanese Celluloid Corp. 180 }ladison J, venue New York, ~i. i.. 12/17…
  • p. 765 …Smith 1/3/47 Visking Corp. Chicago, Ill. Att: J. L. Lane 1/8/47 Watson…
  • p. 766 …1/21/47 Shellmar·Projects Corp. Mt. Vernon, Ohio 1/21/47 Milprint Inc. Milwaukee, Wise…
  • p. 767 …toPermission withheld. place subcontract with Unexcelled Chern. Corp. for the fabrication of be.lloons. Request th…
  • p. 768 …J • 3/7/47 Plax Corp. Hartford, Conn. Mr. R. E• .Ames Same recuest as letter…
  • p. 769 3/19/47 Unexcelled Chem. Corp. New Brunswick, N.J. Att: 2~r. Tegen 3/';:1…
  • p. 781 …Plastics & Packaging No 1-f.J.lwa.ukee 1, Wisconsin Celanese Plastics Corp. Plastics & Packaging No…
  • p. 783 …As the motor switched modulator ~us already i~ experimental state of manufacture for the Signal Corps…
  • p. 810 …date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow firing. Chantz and Bill went…
  • p. 811 …Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM…
  • p. 812 …Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps men along. Stopped at…
  • p. 908 …As presently designed, the modulator contains a standard Signal Corps ML-310E radiosonde aneroid unit, a…
  • p. 981 …Army Signal Corps, Saipan, in 1944. Photo Courtesy of Mrs. Emily Duffy. Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…
RW: After you picked that up and you turned it over to Marcel, did you ever hear anything more
about this? Did people from Washington come and talk to you about it? Did you have to swear
any security oaths or debriefing statements?
SC: I don't remember anybody from Washington coming there. It's possible that somebody came
over to talk to Marcel that I didn't even know about. To my knowledge, no. Certainly nobody
from Washington. I would have, I think, remembered that. Someone from the headshed coming
down and talking to me. Certainly, I would have. And I was not sworn into any secrecy ever
about any of this stuff.
RW: So, as far as you are concerned, none of this was ever classified? There was no attempt to,
I use the word, "cover up" this information or to classify it?
SC: Well let's put it this way: as far as I knew, I never heard anyone say, "Don't talk about this
and its hot stuff." I think Marcel, would ... rm sure he would have told me something.
RW: Would he have? Did he ever say anything to you after this incident occurred until the time
he left? Or, anywhere up until the time he died?
SW: Oh, Rich, dealing with him there in the office or the next office to him so he probably said
something about it. That he had taken it down to Ramey or something. But, nothing that would,
you know, stick in my mind of importance. Do you understand what I mean? If he had said
something like, "I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were
going to take it to Wright-Pat" (or wherever they allegedly took it). Oh, rm sure I would have
remembered that.
RW: It had been alleged in a number ofbooks, including the one by Randle and Schmitt, that
there were a number of airplane flights back and forth of CS4's and B29's going into Wright-Pat
and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very tight security, hauling this
wreckage. Do you recall any of that going on?
SC: None...Nothing.
RW: And then its indicated (and not directly quoting ) Some counterintelligence people &om
Washington or Andrews (as they said in the book) had come out there and apparently done
photographs or crime scene searches or whatever. There was nobody else out there from CIC or
Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of? Other than Rickett?
SC: Not to my knowledge. Not to my knowledge. I made a booboo. I said it was 700 C at
Bolling. I believe now that you mentioned Andrews, it could have been Andrews. But no nobody
came out. Maybe they did, maybe they didn't talk to me. CIC did some crazy things in those
days, shuttling some people around.
RW: But it would have been likely, bad you been involved in recovering something kind of
special that they would have talked to you?

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