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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.

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  • p. 42 …The "payload equipment" was expendable, and some carried no "Reward" or "Return to ... " tags because there…
  • p. 43 …the balloon material and radar target material would be scattered after returning to earth depending on…
  • p. 205 …The balloon material and radar target material would be scattered after returning to the earth depending…
  • p. 206 …These and the radar test flights had no tags-we did not want these to be…
  • p. 213 …Concerning a cover story for the project Mogul, there was no planned cover story. I do…
  • p. 220 …returned our calls. We'~e left messages on his answering machine, and there's been no…
  • p. 231 …radar reflectors, that would have been with a neoprene type balloon. A: There were no plastic…
  • p. 259 …And no one mentioned it to you. No one said hey, look, we had to do…
  • p. 323 …Moore and his technicians conducted test flights, attempting to obtain a better radar return by attaching…
  • p. 324 …returns were received by the radar. This procedure, according to Moore, was employe~ on flight nos…
  • p. 325 …This eliminated the need for radar "comer reflectors" on the balloon train since radar was not…
  • p. 326 …It now appears that the debris from MOGUL flight no. 4 had come ·to earth on…
  • p. 327 …Rawin is short for radar wind, a technique in which a single comer reflector is towed…
  • p. 330 …In fad, when the NYU I AMC group returned to Alamogordo in September, their first tdp…
  • p. 841 …On 19 July, a 130 toot balloon carrying no radar reflector was tracked. Radar contact was…
  • p. 842 …During this time, no target was visible at any time and no further radar contact was…
  • p. 986 …to enhance radar returns, contributed to the confusion when Mogul Flight No. 4 returned to earth…
C B. ;vi.
I can think of no other explanation for Roswell than one of our early June service flight balloons.
If one of our balloons went down there was no shroud of secrecy about it. We would attempt to
recover the flight gear when posstble, but the reflectors, balloons, and microphone equipment was
expendable. We went to no great effort to recover the equipment and we certainly would not
cordon off an area where one of our balloons went down. We would sometimes send out 3-4 men
to recover the equipment if we knew where it went down. The July 1Oth Alomorgordo News
report was a good cover-it does not appear to be a coincidence-I don't know who may have
initiated it. Trakowski does not recaU being invoM:d in a cover story in one of my conversations
with him. In New Mexico during 1947, an of our balloon operations were launched from
Alamogordo AAF. C (3xf.
(1,'3)1 I am not part of any conspiracy to withhold infonnation &om either the US government or
American public. There is no classified information that I am withholding related to this inquiry
and I have never been threatened by US Government persons concerning refraining from talking
about this situation . C. /3 1 tJ
SIGNED:
WITNESS(s):
Subscribed and sworn to before me, a
penon authorized to administer oaths
this
8th day of June 1994 r, NM
L, USAF

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