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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. 6 …Special thanks go to Athelstan and Kathy Spilhaus, Charles and Wilma Moore, Col. Albert and Jean…
  • p. 12 …June 3, 1994 21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon Train…
  • p. 13 …8, 1946 10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992 11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of…
  • p. 14 …F. Spilhaus, C.S. Schneider, C.B. Moore, "Controlled-Altitude Free Balloons," Journal of Meteorology, Vol…
  • p. 15 …Trakowski and Dr. James Peoples Charles B. Moore U.S. Army GR-3 Sound Ranging Set…
  • p. 18 …contributions to Antarctic research; and Charles B. Moore, Project Engineer at NYU and an atmospheric physicist…
  • p. 29 …crashed UFO. Similarly, two authors, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which…
  • p. 31 …The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in Search of…
  • p. 41 …Additionally, transcripts of the interview with Moore and Trakowski are also included (equipment malfunctioned during the…
  • p. 42 …The interview with Professor Moore indicated that these gaps were the unlogged "service flights." Professor Moore…
  • p. 43 …The material and a "black box," described by Cavitt, was, in Moore's scientific opinion, most…
  • p. 44 …device. These persons included Professor Charles B. Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally, Karl Pflock, a researcher…
  • p. 45 …An actual device was also obtained for study with the assistance of Professor Moore. (The example…
  • p. 48 …Signed Sworn Statement of Moore, June 8, 1994 22. Signed Sworn Statement of Trakowski, June 29…
  • p. 171 …Berlitz and Moore? MC: Now, you see, he was here at the house. I've heard…
  • p. 185 …Was it with Berlitz and Moore? SC: Our son sent this book to us. RW: This…
  • p. 201 …I recommend you check with Charlie Moore for those details. Many of the projects I just…
  • p. 203 21 Statement, with Hieroglyphic and Balloon Train Drawings Charles B. Moore June 8, 1994
  • p. 205 …NM C/3!_4 I, Charles B Moore, hereby state that Jeffrey Buder, was identified as…
  • p. 206 …it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about balloons making…
  • p. 208 …saw one of these targets more than 20 years ago . ) c.a. Moore August 28, 1992
  • p. 213 …Charlie Moore was primarily responsible for development of the constant level balloons for lifting the instrument…
  • p. 215 …Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor Charles B. Moore June 8, 1994
  • p. 217 Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with Professor Charles Moore (A) Professor Charles Moore Project Engineer…
  • p. 218 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 you've talked with also. Colonel Weaver talked with Sheridan Cavitt…
  • p. 219 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 not leave any creases. This material looks like it would almost…
  • p. 220 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: we have tried to reach Colonel Trakowski, and he has…
  • p. 221 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 5 A: .•. much of which we can copy and make it…
  • p. 222 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 6 Q: w.w. Brazel mentions eyelets which appear in the…
  • p. 223 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: A guy named Sam Kay formed a company and it…
  • p. 224 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: That's about two mil polyethylene here. Q: Obviously, you…
  • p. 225 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 At the same time, then Captain Fletcher was assigned ••• Duffy had…
  • p. 226 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 strings from these four corners. Obviously, trying to take something that…
  • p. 227 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 11 balloons out of a Goodyear film called pliofilm. It was…
  • p. 228 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 12 this manual in '44. I was commissioned in September of…
  • p. 229 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 13 A: No, we didn't. Q: Not a letter or…
  • p. 230 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: The early nylon line, would it have degraded, such as…
  • p. 231 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 15 June 4th, "Out to Tulerosa Range and fired charges between…
  • p. 232 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 16 have ambiguities. You don't know if it went up…
  • p. 233 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 17 A: What the wind did. The description that Brazel gives…
  • p. 234 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18 executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I…
  • p. 235 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: He was unsuccessful? A: He was unsuccessful. Q: What method…
  • p. 236 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: How did you come in possession of it? A: Todd…
  • p. 237 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 21 It's of interest, in the Holloman report there's…
  • p. 238 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 22 A: No. we were the balloonists. This was all ground…
  • p. 239 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 23 Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of…
  • p. 240 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: No. A: He worked for a Tracer lab and is…
  • p. 241 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware…
  • p. 242 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: Oh, yeah. I visited people in Washington. Q: Just for…
  • p. 243 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: But you had them available for study, but you didn…
  • p. 244 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 28 Q: so is that pretty much maybe a condition of…
  • p. 245 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: The service flights were which ones? A: The ones carrying…
  • p. 246 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 "Excluded are those two tests' special gear in launches which were…
  • p. 247 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 31 Q: so you made your plan in New York to…
  • p. 248 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/~/94 32 from north hangar and from Cloudcroft for awhile. Nothing from Roswell…
  • p. 249 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: By a pressure switch. Q: were those tracked? Was there…
  • p. 250 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 34 miles. Then he had Don Edmondson went to Silver City…
  • p. 251 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 35 A: Brush recorders. (Strip charge) recorders feeding out at high…
  • p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
  • p. 253 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: As I say, I find it hard to think that…
SC: Please, do.
RW: We did this, as investigators would. logically. We figured, "where would this stuff be"? So
we went to all the different records. Working for me I have a group of reservists who are
declassification experts. They are excellent researchers. They spend their whole time dealing
with records, so these people know where all this stuff is buried. So, we have been to all the
major record centers. The Archives and nuclear records (ranging from unclassified toTS nuclear
stuff because the 509th was the only nuclear unit in the world at that time. So, some of there
records were TS and still are.) That is because they have never been declassified. Anyway, we
found that there was no airplane crash that could account for this. Just to show you how unsafe it
was to fly at that time, there were six airplane crashes in less than a month in New Mexico alone
in 1947, and that doesn't include the rest of the United States. We were lucky to have six.
SC: Remind me to double back on that. Go ahead with your story and rn tell you another little
story.
RW: We found no indication of a V-21aunch that is not accounted for. There was one scheduled
on the Jrd of July and that was scrubbed. There was no indication that there was some sort of
nuclear accident at that time where we either dropped a weapon or did something stupid, which
we had to consider during that period of time, but there is no indication of any of that happening.
Weather balloon themselves are; (although they have a "return to" type of thing on them)
supposed to crash. I mean, they go up and then sooner or later they're going to come down.
Right? Now what we did find, however (and I not implying what you saw up there), but its a
possibility. There was a project run by New York University, out ofHoDoman at that time. It
was a balloon experiment that lasted for years. But at the time a portion of it was Top Secret. It
bas since then be declassified. It was called Project Mogul.
SC: Never heard of it.
RW: Mogul was designed to run balloons at very bigh altitudes with extremely sensitive acoustic
sensors (what we were looking for were nuclear test on the part of the Russians, because we
thought the Russians had gotten the bomb) so you needed high enough and far enough so, and at
a constant altitude, we could see... because there were no satellite (Unintelligible) they had a
couple Mogul balloons and several of those are unaccounted for during that period of time. They
are very large in the sense that some of them were up to 600 feet long, not one gigantic balloon,
but a series ofballoons, because as they went up to altitude some of them broke off: and some of
them dropped ballast and they were very sophisticated. They had a lot of tin foil on them and a
lot of different things. Mogul is a possibility. We found a couple of researchers from New
Mexico that we are in contact with now because they kept private records in some regards. But,
of course that was a Top Secret project at the time and we don't know if Blanchard knew about
that or not: (we don't have any indication that he did). And that they used the weather balloon in
an attempt to cover the other balloon which was a classified project.

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