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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. that is possible. I didn't know about that particular thing. I just knew weather
balloons went up and measured. This was my first impression. I didn't know anything else, so
0. K.. that's it, forget it. The thing that disturbed me is why they cannot shoot down this story
about the little bodies and so forth that Were allegedly taken to Wright-Pat or some place.
RW: Wright-Pat, right.
SC: And put in a sealed (unintelligible) or so forth. And the only thing, Rick might have gotten
confused about something. You mentioned crashes. We had one there at Roswell. They
practiced this air to air refueling, which was just. I think, getting into real high-tech stuff as far as
I knew.
RW: B-29's?
SC: Yeah. And they were refueling them. We had one rather, rather hell! Where the plane that
was being refueled for some reason or other pitched up when they were either getting to attach
the cord, or the other one came down, which doesn't sound logical, I think it's more apt to have
went up. One or both of those planes crashed. I forget what direction it was up from Roswell,
but I went out to that crash at the request of Marcel; maybe Blanchard, and I probably took
Rickett with me. We had bodies all over the place, and it was a sad thing. We recovered some
fingers, of course, there was one hell of a big fire after it happened. I collected a bunch of hands,
fingers and so forth, trying to identifY them. At the time I thought this was sort of stupid. They
had a list back at the Operation Office. Other than identifying body parts so that some guy's wife
would know that she had part of her, used to~ former husband. And I don't remember where
we sent those things for identification. I remember going into the office after that trying to get
prints otfofthese old shriveled up fingers and so forth. What good it would do, I don't know. I
didn't know then, but I was wonder if maybe Rick got confused that maybe this was some of the
bodies. I doubt it, but it is just a possibility. But I don't know why they can't trace down those
bodies.
RW: Well, that is the ultimate part of the quote "cover up" that we're involved in. You and I
would probably think as OSI agents if you recovered a body that is unusual, that would generate a
whole bunch of paperwork. We are a paperwork society. I mean, it may be classified with a
bazillion stamps on it, but it would generate a lot of study and things. And we have not been able
to locate one piece of anything to indicate that is so.
SC: It boggles my mind that we would not be able to find anything. The Air Force having the .. .I
mean we were close knit and it seemed that there had to be a trail and pick up and eventually end
there in that grip, or whatever they put these bodies in.
RW: But did you ever hear of any talk of that type of stuff when you were at Roswell?
SC: Down there. No.

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