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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. 51 …Kopelson said the office's investigation, first reported in the Albuquerque Journal yesterday, stemmed from a…
  • p. 82 …northwest ofHobbs NM 7 miles southeast of Albuquerque NM Carrizozo NM 15 miles southwest of Alamogordo…
  • p. 176 …of command that reported to Kirtland in Albuquerque rather than Fort Worth and although Blanchard outranked…
  • p. 225 …Tibbetts, who until recently lived in Albuquerque, he's now moved to Scottsdale, Arizona. Tibbetts says…
  • p. 273 …Another fellow recently came into view, a Carl Pflock from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He appeared to…
  • p. 299 …B-29 crashed on T/0 from Albuquerque in Jan 1947 and a B-29 crashed…
  • p. 379 …but h.e thought the constru~t.ion. ~;ent here from the Albuquerque wondered if what…
  • p. 543 …reports. Reports from .l!il Paso, Roswell. Albuquerque and White Sands were used for comparison with…
  • p. 637 …WNW-5 W-7 10,000 M Albuquerque 1944 SE-3 W-3 W-6 W…
  • p. 639 …3 wsw-2 WNW-5 'WNW-8 Albuquerque 1944 N-3 "WNW-4 WNW-6 W…
  • p. 723 …representative preaeurea and temperatures taken from Washington, Albuquerque, Pittsburgh and Lakehurst soundings. Individual variations from season…
  • p. 740 …was reported to have been seen over Albuquerque, New Mexico, and about 26 hours later a…
  • p. 742 …Over Albuquerque, which was considerably farther from the path of the balloon than the other two…
  • p. 788 …The .altitudes corresponding to various molar volumes for Lakehurst am Albuquerque in January and in August…
SC: No, I had no idea, no suspicion, that it came from Holloman. Holloman is that. ..
RW: It was White Sands.
SC: It was White Sands. Holloman base. Alamagordo.
RW: O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the mean
time, the CIC man would head back to the crash sit with some MP's showing them exactly where
this field was and to round up the rancher. There were now additional questions for him." This
implies that after you came back you took some MP's and went back up there.
SC: I went back down there? No. No.
RW: So you were just there the one original time and you didn't go back with any MP's, the
rancher or anybody else?
SC: No.
RW: O.K. "Marcel would go to Fort Worth and the CIC man would stay behind to lead the clean
up detail at the site another reason they send Marcel was the CIC had there own chain of
command that reported to Kirtland in Albuquerque rather than Fort Worth and although
Blanchard outranked the CIC agent (meaning yourself) a phone call to Kirtland could have gotten
his orders overturned." So, this implied that you reported to Kirtland, which I know, of course,
we did later when District 17 was formed.
SC: Yeah, OSI.
RW: Yeah, but at that time you didn't necessarily· the CIC did not report to Kirtland?
SC: No. No. Kirtland was just another Air Base as far as we were concerned down at Roswell.
They weren't part of SAC. They weren't anything to do with us CIC • wise or nothing.
RW: O.K...Here is where Rickett comes into the picture, and Rickett makes a number of claims
that basically.. .I don't know ifRickett is still alive or not.
SC: No, Rick is dead now.
RW: O.K. Because I...(Unintelliglble)
SC: No, he is dead and I think now maybe his wife might be now. We use to exchange
Christmas cards up until a couple of years ago when he died. Two or three years ago.
RW: So, he died two or three years ago? OK. He makes a number of claims that, at least Randle
and Schmitt; and when I say "Randle and Schmitt rm not trying to pick on them or to imply that

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