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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. 28 …Major Marcel and "a man in plain clothes" then accompanied Brazel home to pick up the…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 40 …Subsequently, Cavitt was interviewed on May 24, 1994, at his home. Cavitt provided a signed, sworn…
  • p. 51 …Also, a nurse reportedly told a local funeral home director that she witnessed the autopsies of…
  • p. 75 …mortician who worked for the funCr.ll home in Roswell, Glenn Dennis, says an:Arrr.y…
  • p. 147 …To llr. ~o's ofi'ice and then home.
  • p. 182 …She said she had been home when she got telephone calls. MC: I have talked to…
  • p. 190 …unintelligible) some grave digger from the funeral home or whatever ... RW: Well, of course, Randle and…
  • p. 201 …USAF on this date at my home and do hereby, voluntarily and of my own free…
  • p. 205 …Lieutenant, USAF on this date at my home and do hereby, volwttarily and of my own…
  • p. 213 …Lieutenant, USAF on this date at my home and do hereby, voluntarily and of my own…
  • p. 257 …As soon as that flight was made, that was the 7th, and we went home on…
  • p. 307 …PERMANENT ADDRESS OR HOME OF RECORD (Include l•P Code) MILITARY ORGANIZATION/EMPLOYER DEROS Same as…
  • p. 326 …Roswell AAF was home of the 509th Bomb Group of the Strategic Air Command's Eighth…
  • p. 327 …At some point General Ramey decided to forward the material to Wright Field, home of AMC…
  • p. 379 …miles from the and went to his home to try to about 18, or 20 Inches…
  • p. 408 …scheduled to depart from HAWAII for its home station on Z plus one (l) day. The…
  • p. 434 …was used as a beacon to be "homed in" on by the radio compass or aircratt…
  • p. 444 …the radio compass from an aircraft to "home in" on the balloon and position it at…
  • p. 512 …With proper equipment a balloon-borne transmitter can provide a signal to guide an aircraft, homing…
  • p. 516 …By homing on the signal end flying along the indicated bearing until the compass needle reverses…
  • p. 550 …awaJ trom it and 118re able to home in on the signal by using the radio…
  • p. 592 …airplane was used to follow the balloon, homing in em the signal from the .AK-1…
  • p. 801 …Jat At home. OYer to Cgdensburg to see Steve thi::: pm Anril 7 :::un. Left Canton…
  • p. 812 …At home. Took sleeper out of Canton for NYC May 12 Mon. Arrived NYC and caught…
  • p. 815 …Unable to leave for home on 3 July as was planned and wired Donnie first part…
  • p. 816 …Got home about 230. Marion & her baby there. July 16, 17, 18 At home. Drew in…
  • p. 978 …In reality, Andrews AAF was the home of the Army Air Forces Air Weather Service and…
SC: said in a facetious way: "Lets make out like it never existed, because we're wasting our
time." But I didn't say it in such a way that it would be this is so highly classified we won't have
anything to do with it.
RW: O.K. On page 86, it said: "The counterintelligence people came into Roswell on a special
flight from Andrews Army Air Field on July 8. ". So that, to me, implies that this would have been
your CIC Headquarters also sent some other people out there.
SC: Yeah. Right. That's what it sounds like.
RW: Yeah, but you said you would have known if anybody from Washington had come into your
area. sort to speak. More than likely.
SC: Well I certainly hope so. We were secretive and so forth, but I think they would have
touched base with me, since obviously if they talked to Marcel he would have probably said
something to begin with, but they would have wanted to know what I knew. No, 1. ..
MC: Of course Jack Williams was there. Jack could have been on some ofthese...
SC: No Jack was young and sort of scatterbrained, as you well know. And I never relied much
on him for anything. He's the type that would read a book while he was on a road trip driving his
car. He'd finish a book while driving...
RW: While he was actually driving?
SC: Oh sure.
RW: Sounds like the people driving on 95 in Washington there in the traffic jam.
MC: There weren't many people on the road.
SC: Jack rabbits. No. No disrespect to Jack, but he just wasn't a solid citizen as far as rm
concerned. And if anybody from headquarters CIC came in rm positive they would have checked
in with me.
RW: O.K. The page that's kind of devoted to you, if you will, is on 171 and it said that "Schmitt
suggested the possibility that the crash had been a V-2 or A-9, (which is one of derivatives of the
V-2, that we were playing with at that time). Schmitt asked if there had ever...ifthey bad ever
retrieved anything like that anywhere in New Mexico. Never, he said any rocket going off course
would be destroyed by the rauge officer and they wouldn't have wanted to risk injury to civiliaDs
on the ground. Randle asked if he remembered my talk at aD about a flying saucer. He (meaning
you) insisted that nothing at all happened. The former CIC man hadn't heard any rumors about a
crash. All this, including the story shown on "Unsolved Mysteries", was a bunch of garbage.
Schmitt and Randall spent two hours with the man, he told them that any reports he wrote in the

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