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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. 2 …SSOP, Washington, DC 20402-9328 ISBN 0-16-048023-X
  • p. 5 …Jim Bruns acquainted himself with the numerous research facilities available in the Washington, DC, area, and…
  • p. 6 …At the National Archives and Records Administration in Washington, DC, it was a pleasure to collaborate…
  • p. 11 …s Report of Air Force Research: 1. Washington Post, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in Probe…
  • p. 21 …OF THE SECF>PARY DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000 :MEMORANDUM FOR THE…
  • p. 26 …the result of a January 14, 1994, Washington Post article (Atch 1) which announced Congressman Steven…
  • p. 34 …SAF/ AAZD conducted reviews at a number of locations, including the National Archives in Washington, DC…
  • p. 37 …involved Ellington Field, Texas and the Spokane (Washington) Depot. After much discussion and information gathering on…
  • p. 47 …GAO, or any other inquiries. Attachments 1. Washington Post Article, "GAO Turns to Alien Turf in…
  • p. 51 …Disappeared in 19 47 By William Claiborne Washington Poat Staff Writer Where television's "Unsolved Mysteries…
  • p. 55 …from our National Security Analysis group in washington, D.C. If you have any questions concerning…
  • p. 63 …SAF/FMPF DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON OC _A_AF/INR _A_AF/SPO X…
  • p. 67 OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000 MEMORANDUM…
  • p. 68 OFF'ICE OF" TME SECRETA~Y DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000 MEMORANDUM…
  • p. 72 …552} Department of the Air Force HQ OSAF/DADF Washington, DC 20380 RE: ALIEN BUMANOIDS/OFO…
  • p. 75 …of its license by government officials in Washington, DC, if it broadcast the story about the…
  • p. 81 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE HEADQUARTERS UNITED STATES AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AAZ…
  • p. 85 OFFICE OF THE ASSISTANT SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC MEMORANDUM FOR SAF/AA…
  • p. 89 …HQ USAF/XOWP 1490 Air Force Pentagon Washington DC 20330-1490 SUBJECT: GAO Review on Records…
  • p. 93 OF"F"ICE OF" THE SECRETARY SAF/AAIQ 1610 Air Force Washington, DC MEMORANDUM FOR DEPARTMENT…
  • p. 101 …and Records Administration (NARA), either at the Washington National Records Center (WNRq or the Southwest Regional…
  • p. 108 …Hartzop, Jr., Arrrr:r Air Forces, Washington, D. c., .arrived .for investi- gation of the B…
  • p. 133 HEADQUARTERS, ARMY AIR FORCES WASHINGTON SUBJECT: Iuuance o! Ordera !01 Couaa8.1ng General .A.1r Materiel…
  • p. 159 …24 May 94 Place: ,Washington :..p.f'/ I Sheridan W.Cavitt, hereby state that Richard L…
  • p. 168 …I don't remember anybody from Washington coming there. It's possible that somebody came over…
  • p. 169 …maybe somewhere to an Air Force Base up here in Washington. MC: Fort Lewis, I think…
  • p. 170 …It's in the Washington DC area. I forget since I was there in the Washington…
  • p. 178 …Yeah, but you said you would have known if anybody from Washington had come into your…
  • p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 195 …COITDllal'lding General, Army Air Forces, Washington 25, D.C. THRU& (AC/A5-4) 1. To…
  • p. 241 …Not ever in Washington?
  • p. 242 …I visited people in Washington. Q: Just for the record, ·Major Marcel later worked at AFOAT…
  • p. 300 …Center for Military History, 14th St NW Washington DC Dr Bennett, Curator DrDrea Ms Hannah Zeidlik…
  • p. 317 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000 OFFICt: OF THE ~ECRETARY JUL 2 7…
  • p. 709 …of Phase II be presented to the Washington Subcommittee for clearance with all other Regional Airspace…
  • p. 712 …coordination was effected with the Washington Airspace SUbcommittee tmmediately subsequent to our Meeting #12. It "WaS…
  • p. 723 …on representative preaeurea and temperatures taken from Washington, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and Lakehurst soundings. Individual variations from…
  • p. 731 …538, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, Washington, D. c. September, 1935. 8. Timoshenko, MacCullough, Elements of…
  • p. 791 …of Phase II be presented to the Washington Subcommittee for clearance with all other Hegional Airspace…
  • p. 792 …That the Washington Airspace Subcommittee present the Phase II operation to other Regional Airspace Subcommittees for…
  • p. 807 …Peoples in Washington regarding balloon ascention in June, Made plans for flight 20 which was made…
  • p. 809 …At 0930 went up J.o Math DQ&rtment at NYU - Washington Square. Met Mr Bennett…
  • p. 978 …was transported to Andrews AAF, MD (near Washington, DC), to be examined by high government officials…
  • p. 992 Eiffel Tower PARIS 1056ft Washington Monument WASHINGTON, D.C. 555ft Statue of Liberty NEW YORK HARBOR…
SC: I don't know. It's in the Washington DC area. I forget since I was there in the Washington
area for awhile but I never did get acquainted with the insane asylum.
RW: It's always best to keep it that way.
SC: No, well I put it again, he might have gone off with LaPaz for a few days, but I can't imagine
what excuse I would have been given as to why he'd be out goofing around with an astronomer.
LaPaz was a well thought of individual in New Mexico and, I imagine, all over the United States.
He had quite a reputation.
RW: He did quite a bit of work for the Air Force, as I found through research.
SC: Contract work or something... Yeah.
RW: But there was nothing that you knew of that he did as a direct result of this incident on the
stuff that you recovered out there?
SC: No. Of course, I could have been held in the dark about it~ but as far as I know, no.
RW: O.K. I went through and pulled out wherever, in this book UFO Crash at Roswell by
Randle and Schmitt, this is a 1991 .. .I pulled out wherever you were identified. They never
identified you by name except in the credits when they interviewed yo~ but they always referred
to you as the "Senior CIC man" and "Senior CIC agent". They identified Rickett and Marcel, of
course, by name. There are many things that are in the book that people said that you said or
implied that you said, without directly saying that "Colonel Cavitt told me such and such."
SC: Yeah.
RW: I pulled a couple of these out and just ask you if you can comment on it to see how they
ring with your memory of the incident. "The second fellow we interviewed" (this right fi"om the
fi'ont on page six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another
intelligence officer on the initial trip to the crash site and we believe wrote a report of the incident
for his superiors in Washington" ... implying that was you, since you were the senior guy.
SC: rmjust reading this end quote "book." No, No. I assume .. .! assume when I read this thing
for the first time that they sent me a big deal, you know...
RW: An autographed copy?
SC: An autographed copy and all that. No, I didn't say all like that.
RW: On the next page, on seven, again referring to you: "At first this intelligence agent refused
to admit that the event had occurred at all. There bad been no newspaper story, no fuss, not even
the recovery of a weather balloon. After much prodding, that he was going to admit that
something came down and was recovered, and but that was as far as he would go. He admits no

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