“Roswell”60+ pages
- p. 1 THE
ROSWELL
REPORT
Fact versus Fiction
in the
New Mexico Desert
Headquarters United States Air Force…
- p. 3 …to what is popularly known as the Roswell
Incident. The only information presented here that was…
- p. 9 …The Report of the Air Force Research Regarding
the "Roswell Incident" by Col. Richard L. Weaver…
- p. 11 …1
"Report of Air Force Research Regarding the 'Roswell Incident'," with
Memorandum for the Secretary of…
- p. 13 …1947
Appendices to the McAndrew Synopsis:
1. Roswell Daily Record, July 9, 1947
2. Interview, Col…
- p. 14 …Combined History, 509th Bomb Group and Roswell Army Airfield,
September 1-30, 1947
Attachment to Colonel…
- p. 17 …Popularly known as the Roswell Incident,
this event has become the most celebrated UFO encounter of…
- p. 19 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the
description of debris…
- p. 21 …Report of Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident"
JUL 2 7 19S111
Attached is a…
- p. 23 REPORT OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH
REGARDING THE
"ROSWELL INCIDENT"
JULY 1994
- p. 25 REPORT OF AIR FORCE RESEARCH REGARDING
THE ''ROSWELL INCIDENT"
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
The "Roswell Incident" refers to…
- p. 26 INTRODUCTION
Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as
the "Roswell Incident…
- p. 27 …THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT"-WHAT WAS ORIGINALLY REPORTED IN 1947
The modem preoccupation with what ultimately came…
- p. 28 …Interestingly, the "Roswell Incident" was not considered one of these
1947 events until the 1978-1980…
- p. 29 …The overall thrust of these articles, books, and shows is that
the "Roswell Incident" was actually…
- p. 30 …Once back at Roswell Army Air Field, it is generally alleged that special measures
were taken…
- p. 31 …What is uniquely
lacking in the entire exploration and exploitation of the "Roswell Incident" is
official…
- p. 32 …of "over
two dozen" personnel stationed at Roswell in July, 1947, to the Veterans Adminis-
tration…
- p. 33 …program involving,
or relating to, the events at Roswell or the alleged technology that supposedly
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- p. 34 …they found that might
be related to Roswell. SAF/ AAZD conducted reviews at a number of…
- p. 35 …WHAT THE ROSWELL INCIDENT WAS NOT
Before discussing specific positive results that these efforts revealed, it…
- p. 36 …A Nuclear Accident
One of the areas considered was that whatever happened near Roswell may have…
- p. 37 …There is no
similar mention of his personal interest or involvement in Roswell events except
in…
- p. 38 …WHAT THE "ROSWELL INCIDENT" WAS
As previously discussed, what was originally reported to have been recovered…
- p. 39 …Porter (B-29 flight Engineer stationed at Roswell in 1947). Affidavit
dated June 7, 1991. " ... On…
- p. 40 …Newton was a weather officer assigned to Fort Worth, who was on duty when
the Roswell…
- p. 43 …came to rest some miles northwest of Roswell, NM, became
shredded in the surface winds, and…
- p. 44 …had also discovered the possibility that the "Roswell Incident" may
have been generated by the recovery…
- p. 45 …appeared to be directly responsible for the "Roswell Incident," a
SAF I AAZD researcher prepared a…
- p. 46 …CONCLUSION
The Air Force research did not locate or develop any information that the
"Roswell Incident…
- p. 47 …alien bodies" make their living from the "Roswell Incident."
While having a commercial interest in something…
- p. 51 …Even though the "Roswell Incident" has been
repeatedly dismissed by the Defense Depart-
ment as nothing…
- p. 56 …reported crash of a weather balloon
near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947.
SCOPE:
Initial work…
- p. 59 …since the enclosed GAO notification letter did not mention
the Roswell incid~t or specifically site…
- p. 67 …reported
crash of a weather balloon near Roswell, New Mexico in July 1947". To fulfill the…
- p. 71 …There is a second document called "Synopsis of Roswell Incident: (Atch 2). In its
recapitulation of…
- p. 73 …I have enclosed
for your review a brief synopsis of what occurred in and around
Roswell…
- p. 75 SYNOPSIS OF ROSWELL INCIDENT
I am writing to request a clarifica-
rion of the U.S…
- p. 76 SUMMARY OF HQ NAIC RESEARCH INTO THE ROSWELL INCIDENT,
UNIDENTIFIED FLYING SAUCERS, AND PROJECT BLUE BOOK…
- p. 77 …Concerted research has failed to turn up any evidence relating to the Roswell incident
or of…
- p. 78 …He found
nothing, apparently, about the Roswell incident.
The UFO Experience, J. Allen Hynek. Written by…
- p. 89 …archives of a weather balloon
crash near Roswell, New Mexico from 20 June to 31 July…
- p. 94 …We asked the National Personnel Records Center to see if they have
any files for Roswell…
- p. 98 REPORT
GAO INVESTIGATION OF "THE ROSWELL INCIDENT":
RELEVANT HOLDINGS AT THE AFHRA
8 March 1994
Preface…
- p. 99 …No
mention of Roswell incident found.
390th Air Service Sqdn - No AFHRA files for June/July…
- p. 100 …No mention of the Roswell
incident was found in them.
Result of the Search - Card Catalog…
- p. 101 …records which
might provide details of the Roswell incident H such records survive today, they will…
- p. 102 …509mBoMB GRoUP ~--I ,A N D : . :: ;:;: ~: 1, . - .. .
ROSWELL ARMY AIRFiE-IAf-
1JutY 1947 THROUG!.t 31Jutv…
- p. 104 …Arner ?P.r Po.r~crnph 3, Special Order, #139, Eeadquartars,
Roswell Anny Air Field, dated…
- p. 106 …guasts of -the Kiwe.nis Club of Roswell at a luncheon, for which Colonel
:;.. H. Blanchard…
- p. 108 …Mabry' of New Mexico, and party, were the
guests o£ honor of Roswell Arrq Air Field…
- p. 159 …Shortly after arriving at Roswell , New Mexico in that time frame I had occasion to accompany…
- p. 163 …When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir?
SC: I went to Roswell after going to…
- p. 166 …disc" in RosweU? That was actually the Roswell
paper, that was the first one. How about…
- p. 170 …I went through and pulled out wherever, in this book UFO Crash at Roswell by
Randle…
- p. 172 …been changed to a location closer to Roswell. And. that's where these bodies were
supposedly…
- p. 175 …that they weren't shooting them toward Roswell, anyway. Of course the sent up a few…
- p. 176 …Kirtland was just another Air Base as far as we were concerned down at Roswell.
They…
- p. 178 …On page 86, it said: "The counterintelligence people came into Roswell on a special
flight from…
- p. 179 …he described his normal
unclassified duties at Roswell, but according to him the crash and recovery…
shrouded in secrecy, some of its operations obviously could not. The deployment of giant
trains of balloons--over thirty research balloons and experimental sensors strung together
and stretching more than 600 feet-could be neither disguised nor hidden from the public.
Moreover, operational necessity required that these balloons be launched during daylight
hours. It was therefore not surprising that these balloons were often mistaken for UFOs.
In fact, MOGUL recovery crews often listened to broadcasts of UFO reports to assist them
in their tracking operations. Additionally, the balloons were unsteerable, leading to such
amusing events as the one reported by the New York Times in which a secret MOGUL
balloon "floated ·blithely over the rooftops of Flatbush . . . causing general public
excitement ... before it came to rest on top of a [Brooklyn] tavem."2 In another episode,
MOGUL balloon recovery technicians directed a B-17 bomber, which was tracking one
of the tests, to buzz and scare off a curious oil rig crew that was about to "capture" a
balloon train that had fallen near Roswell. The ruse worked. However, too much activity
was going on for the project to remain completely hidden. A MOGUL project officer later
noted, "It was like having an elephant in your backyard . . . and hoping no one would
notice." 3 These occurrences were typical, leading the recovery crews to describe
themselves as Balloonatics, due to the predicaments in which the wandering balloons
sometimes placed them, but the information the balloons were attempting to obtain was
vital.
To attempt to limit unauthorized disclosure, the Air Force employed a security mechanism
known as compartmentation. Compartmentation controlled access to classified information
by dispersing portions of the research among several facilities and institutions. Each
participating entity received only enough information necessary to accomplish its assigned
tasks. In the case of MOGUL, only a small circle of Air Force officers received the
intimate details that linked together these unrelated research projects. The use of
compartmentation along with strict enforcement of the need to know enabled MOGUL to
remain a secret-despite its obvious security difficulties-and to remain unevaluated for
many years as the cause of the Roswell Incident.
The issue of compartmentation was significant because some UFO researchers assert that
the persons who recovered the MOGUL equipment, members of the 509th Bombardment
Group stationed at Roswell Army Airfield, should have been able to recognize the debris
collected at the crash site as that of a research balloon. Although members of the 509th
possessed high-level clearances, they were not privy to the existence of MOGUL; their job
was to deliver nuclear weapons, not to detect them. The unusual combination of
experimental equipment did not encourage easy identification that undoubtedly left some
members of the 509th with unanswered questions. Some UFO enthusiasts have
manipulated these unanswered questions to support their flying'isaucer recovery scenario,
while eagerly supplying unfounded explanations of extraterrest'rial visitation and cosmic
conspiracy. Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the
description of debris collected at the Foster ranch site. UFO researchers, including those
2. New York Times, "Balloon Staggers Down to Brooklyn Tavern, Hooks Itself to Roof and Upsets
Decorum," Oct 1, 1948.
3. New York Times, "Wreckage of a 'Spaceship': Of This Earth (and U.S.)," Sep 18, 1994.
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