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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.
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apparently, where you were at and picked up this material, and then there is another one 120 miles or so away. SC: A richochet. R W: Yeah. Which at one time was on the Plains of San Augustin and now it has apparently in this new book been changed to a location closer to Roswell. And. that's where these bodies were supposedly recovered. I think their new research has to do with that aspect of it. MC: Well we haven't seen it, but I know it came out in April. RW: O.K. Lets see; also on the same page it said: "The CIC responded to the phone call. Jesse Marcel was one. "The intelligence and the CIC responded to the phone call. Jesse Marcel was one of them. Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to the ranch to see what was there." Braze~ of course, was the farmer who apparently came in and made the original report. SC: Yeah. To the best of my recollection, I never met the rancher, Brazel. RW: O.K., because as I go through here you11 see that you're accused, I say "accused"; claimed, to have been with him on a number of occasions and basically, it was alleged that the Army Air Corps had imprisoned him, if you wit~ for about a week and kept him away from everybody. Not that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the ranch took the rest of the afternoon ... they were forced to stay in a small cabin with no electricity no running water ... the next morning they headed out into a field were Brazel had found the debris." So, this would have been you and whoever else accompanied you. SC: Totally, made up, or fabricated, or whatever. I didn't have any experiences like that of spending the night out on the ranch. MC: Eating a can of beans... RW: Eating beans... yeah, that is, in fact, mentioned in one of the... SC: Yeah. RW: O.K. Now this: "Marcel would later say that the material was like nothing he had ever seen and the metal was as thin as newsprint and as light as a feather. It was flexible but very strong. He tried to dent it with a sledge hammer but Marcel and the CIC agent tried to bum it but it would not bum. It was lighter, stronger and more fire resistant than any of them bad ever seen. Marcel, along with the counterintelligence agent picked up as much as they could and begun loading it up in Marcel's convertible and the counterintelligence agent's Jeep CarryaD vehicle with a rear box." So, apparently, according to Marcel's version of the story (and I don't know when this was given, sometime after 1978) you hammered on it and tried to rip it and did other stuff with it and it was tike nothing you bad ever seen.
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.