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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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  • p. 19 …MOGUL; their job was to deliver nuclear weapons, not to detect them. The unusual combination of…
  • p. 36 …happened near Roswell may have involved nuclear weapons. This was a logical area of concern since…
  • p. 41 …to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research. This was the early Cold War period…
  • p. 183 …that time where we either dropped a weapon or did something stupid, which we had to…
  • p. 201 …long range balloons; although not effective as weapons, they did initiate the long-range balloon research…
  • p. 213 …Charles Ziegler was working on the history of nuclear weapons detection capability. He had some letters…
  • p. 249 …Out PM with several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it. Rocket postponed…
  • p. 251 …so I took a weapons carrier and drove up there. We were aggressively trying to recover…
  • p. 253 …We drove up in a weapons carrier to the Roswell Army Air Field, and tried to…
  • p. 264 …We civilians were driving weapons carriers to carry helium around, and to go into town to…
  • p. 273 …a book on the history of nuclear weapons detection. It figured, of course, that Project MOGUL…
  • p. 274 …I had considerable background in nuclear weapons detection, using devices that I had developed in the…
  • p. 326 …in the :world capable of delivering nuclear weapons. It now appears that the debris from MOGUL…
  • p. 401 …a.~tack:; -;;it"t st.~c!"et weapons. ' The moat prom1a1ne. .eJ"PC'• oi: li6tening etatlon…
  • p. 804 …Dec 13 Fri.Woody and I left Alamogordo Air Base in weapon carrier and scouted out…
  • p. 805 …went in borrowed weapon carrier. '.:oody and Jeff 7owler took other weapon carrier ::1~d collected…
  • p. 808 …Phil and Sal went out to Dona and Launching Sites with weapon carrier. Hoffman, DeTurk and…
  • p. 812 …May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left about 0745 in weapon carrier for Silver City. Arrived…
  • p. 813 …Edmondson and I left about 0845 in weapon carrier for Roswell. Arrived at Hagerman about 12…
  • p. 815 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket postponed until…
MC: Nice, nice man.
SC: He is a nice man. And a nice family. I don't know what the date on that is. Letter from
Doyle, it says: "When you call the press conference to tell the world, let me know, because I want
to be there." So, I just got reams of this stuff from books.
RW: Do you mind if I look through that real quick?
SC: Oh, heavens no. I got it (Unintelligible)
RW: Stanton T. Freidman?
SC: Freidman or whatever.
RW: Yeah, he doesn't like me a lot. He writes me nasty letters.
SC: He called me a couple of times. I could hear him a little bit, but it wasn't good enough for
me to try to strain my brain. He apologized a little later. He wrote me back and said sorry we
had a bad telephone coMection. On your end!
RW: O.K. Here is the stuff about Schiff that I referenced earlier. Asking the GAO to look at
this. Karl pt}ock...
SC: You know, you can look at any of that. You can have copies. As a matter of fact I don't
know what rm going to do with it.
MC: Oh, your sons want it.
SC: Oh, I don't know.
MC: Oh, yes they do. Joey said last night maybe Dad could make a fortune out of being a hero.
SC: WeD, ifi wanted to make a little money I could have imagined a lot of things and cooperated
more.
MC: Well, that's what Doyle said.
SC: With these authors and so forth I could be given royalties for a long time.
RW: Oh, this wu out of the Global Reliance. I don't remember seeing this in there. Oh, Kart
Pftock wrote this for the Global Reliance.
SC: Have you ever seen that clipping?
RW: This one on Rickett here?

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