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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 …There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for…
  • p. 30 …and tinfoil has since grown to exotic metals with hieroglyphics and fiber optic-like materials. Most…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 39 …fine kidskin glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the…
  • p. 43 …a "service flight" that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
  • p. 159 …light, as well as some sort of metallic retlecting material that was also very light I…
  • p. 172 …nothing he had ever seen and the metal was as thin as newsprint and as light…
  • p. 173 …Was it some sort of material, metal material or... MC: And it's in one of…
  • p. 177 …Rickett said it looked Hke metal and asked if it was radioactive" ... and you said it…
  • p. 182 …wandered through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle with a…
  • p. 205 …but I betievc they were covered in metal. On review of the photos in the Randle…
  • p. 218 …They talk in terms of materials that look like metallic foil, and specifically that "could not…
  • p. 266 …It's my memory that there was good, bright, aluminum metal foil, not painted stuff on…
  • p. 269 …mylar is a polyethylene, it's a metalized polyethylene. A: It's not really a polyethylene…
  • p. 309 …s ball and jacks set) with a metallic material between the legs. The legs were madeq…
  • p. 318 …the local sheriff and reported that sme metallic debris had come to rest on the ranch…
  • p. 379 …out of It, There was no S(gn of any metal of Corona. today told his…
  • p. 465 …The fabric has been coated with a metallic paint to mw1.mue the effects of radiation…
  • p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a rotating cylinder of insulating material…
  • p. 598 …20, 39 stiffened with metal, .!! - Arrays of rubber balloons cluster, 7 linear, 6 Atmospheric oscillations, 10…
  • p. 864 …15 x i X .030" 24 ST Metal spring bow to hold appendix flat, like pressed…
  • p. 867 Figure 4 Two foot apflendix, showing metal spring bow in position. -13-
  • p. 868 …toggles and loops in the nylon may be used instead of the heavier metal snaps. -14-
  • p. 908 …rotating cyclinder of insulating material with a metal helix wound around the cylinder, and a 6…
  • p. 916 …Spiral--made of nickel or other metal which does not corrode in the atmosphere, .010 inch…
  • p. 917 …Loading edge of the metal spiral will be true and sm.ooth to within .0005 inch…
  • p. 922 …The car- bon should not be so thick as to obscure the metallic appearance of the…
  • p. 932 …GoPPE:R TuBE s" J·-- 58 COILA5SEMBL.Y (SECTION) --.. ....-- METAL HosE TO TANKS c :::{l;::::t…
  • p. 937 …tin cans Metal funnel -8:5-
  • p. 989 …These balloons were easily mistaken for flying saucers due to their shape and metallic exterior coating.
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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