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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…
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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