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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 2. Organizational Chart, Watson Laboratories…
  • p. 28 …of the Eighth Air Force at Forth Worth, Texas, stated that upon examination the debris recovered…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 34 …Laboratory, Washington, DC; Federal Records Center, Ft Worth, TX; the INSCOM Archives, Fort Meade, MD; National…
  • p. 38 …the famous photos (Atch 16) in Fort Worth was that of a radar target normally suspended…
  • p. 39 …told was a flying saucer to Fort Worth. The people on board included ... and Maj Jesse…
  • p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when the Roswell…
  • p. 45 …taken at the time by the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that depicted Ramey and Marcel with…
  • p. 46 …wreckage prior to its getting to Fort Worth. This organization reported on July 20, 1994, that…
  • p. 48 …July 9, 1947 Photos of Balloon Wreckage, Ft Worth Star Telegram 17. Signed Sworn Statement of…
  • p. 51 …After the autopsies, conspiracy theorists said the bodies were flown to Fort Worth and then to…
  • p. 75 …of the debris was flown to Fort Worth, ..as where the Commander of the Eighth Air…
  • p. 101 …WNRq or the Southwest Regional Depository (Fort Worth, Texas). Recommendations Because the records management policy of…
  • p. 108 …Ramey arrived .from Ft Worth on an official visit. 16 July 1947 - Lt Colonel J. P…
  • p. 151 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 159 …to Eighth AU- Force Headquarters in Fort Worth where it was subsequently identified as a weather…
  • p. 167 …Marcel took it to Fort Worth. Yeah that's the ... RW: ·Yeah. That doesn't look…
  • p. 168 …Wright-Pat and Kirtland, or to Fort Worth. Back and forth, loaded up, with very tight…
  • p. 174 …Then it said: "After Marcel had gone to Fort Worth and came back Marcel challenged the…
  • p. 176 …O.K."Marcel would take some ofthe sample to Fort Worth to show Ramey. In the…
  • p. 179 normal course of his duty was sent to Washington not 8th Air Force in Fort Worth…
  • p. 254 …But the Roswell morning paper clearly showed that there was a knowledgeable person in Fort Worth…
  • p. 266 …by a news photographer of the Fort Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that show…
  • p. 309 …I was the only weather forecaster on duty in the Fort Worth base weather and flight…
  • p. 318 …to Eighth Air Force Headquarters at Fort Worth AAF, TX, for his personal inspection. Upon viewing…
  • p. 326 …Before the announcement was made, the "disc" was flown to Fort Worth AAF, at the direction…
  • p. 327 …thermos jug" was allegedly transported from Fort Worth AAF to Wright Field. 38 This description is…
  • p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947 1
  • p. 640 …Similarly, the Fort Worth Sub-Committee established a procedure for flights made within the Fort V1orth…
  • p. 707 …Air Coordinating Committee, Fort Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee. Subject: Obstructions to ·air navigation ••••.•••••••••••••••••••••••••• 43 Memorandum from…
  • p. 713 …Secretary a SUBJECT AIR COORDINATING COMMITTEE FORT WORTH REGIONAL AIRSPACE SUBCOMMITTEE P. O. BOX 1689 FORT…
  • p. 715 …Ft. Worth Regional Airspace Subcommittee Lt. Col. Hall F. Smith, War Dept. Member, Ft. Worth Regional…
  • p. 716 …y /•/ Jtul H. Boatman PAUL H • BOA 1MAN Secretary, Ft. Worth Regional Airspace SubcCIIDII.ittee (46)
  • p. 749 …ron Worth Su~ittee night or Balloou oa .l1Jo Space froa Al&IIIO&OrdO • CiYS.l…
  • p. 812 …Arrived in Fort Worth about 9 EDST. Off again to Big Springs, Texas, where forced to…
  • p. 990 …the Foster ranch and shown at Forth Worth Army Airfield with Maj. Jesse Marcel. Crashed saucer…
SC: Yeah.
RW: No, I never saw this.
SC: I don't know what that is from.
RW: "But at least one surviving member of the recovery team actually handled the material,
(Unintelligible). Eighty two year old Lewis Rickett. 'Cavitt had been there the day before, but he
wouldn't tell me what was going on until we got there.' With armed troops standing guard
Rickett wandered through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle
with a diameter of25, 30, or 40 feet."
SC: It must have been Rickett sort a flipped oflittle bit. See this was something that he... an
interview he had shortly before he di~ I think.
MC: Well, when they interview Rick he was older and trying to make people remember things
that happened umpteen years ago is pretty hard.
SC: I have probably received an awfully lot more than that, Rich, and threw it away. Sony.
RW: So these people have been pretty much tracking you down on a regular basis then?
SC: Oh, yes! Mary can verifY that. She said she had been home when she got telephone calls.
MC: I have talked to some of these fellows myself.
SC: Yeah, if I'm not here she talks to them. Blabber away, and she gives it right down the line.
"Have they ever tried to influence you to say that I am lying or holding anything out?"
MC: No. I just tell them that you are teDing the truth.
SC: They don't believe you when you tell the truth.
RW: I guess they don't. That's the problem we have with this whole line of inquiry and attempt
to look this. It is very hard to prove the negative. It is hard to prove that something didn'
happen, because you don't document stuff that doesn't happen.
SC: No, it is pretty hard to, difficult, but a good imagination can. These boys have it.
MC: The picture that wu in the Roswell paper, u I said, we had just gotten there so we
probably bad to start subscnbing to it. But nobody passed it around.
RW: Well let me tell you what's in the official records that we found so far. So you wiD have
feel.

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