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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 …Kathy Spilhaus, Charles and Wilma Moore, Col. Albert and Jean Trakowski, Lt. Col. Sheridan and Mary…
  • p. 12 …Statement, Albert C. Trakowski, June 29, 1994 23. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James…
  • p. 14 …Personal Journal of Albert P. Crary 18. New York University, Progress Report No. 7, Constant Level…
  • p. 15 …Yates Albert P. Crary and Phil Chantz Dr. W. Maurice Ewing and Albert P. Crary Dr…
  • p. 18 …editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research; Albert P. Crary, also a civilian Air Force scientist…
  • p. 41 …Moore; and the military Project Officer, Colonel Albert C. Trakowski. All of these persons were subsequently…
  • p. 42 …An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Crary, preceded the NYU group to Alamogordo Army…
  • p. 211 Statement Albert C. Trakowski June 29, 1994 22
  • p. 219 …You, perhaps, have talked to Albert Trakowski ••.
  • p. 220 …Anyway, Albert Trakowski was the Watson Laboratory project officer on this. When I raised this question…
  • p. 224 …Only what Albert Trakowski told me, that our friend John Peterson, the procurement man, was just…
  • p. 230 …The reason I have it identified is I have Albert Crary's diary. The scientific end…
  • p. 247 …V-2 firings? A: Those went independently. Albert Crary was monitoring the V-2 firings. Q…
  • p. 271 24 Interview Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Col Albert C. Trakowski, USAF…
  • p. 273 Colonel Albert Trakowski 29 June 1994 Q: We have concluded) independently from several other researchers the…
  • p. 320 …Crane, spring 1946-July 1946; Col Marcellus Duffy, August 1946-January, 1947; and Capt Albert C…
  • p. 322 …Personal journal of Albert P. Crary, p. 13. 20. Ibid., pp. 4-16. 21. Ibid., p…
  • p. 327 …Intvw, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Col Albert C. Trakowski, USAF (Ret…
  • p. 330 …79; Untr~scribed journal of Albert P. Crary, p. 64.
  • p. 408 …personnel were as follows: BAllOON TEAM: Dr. Albert P. Crary Mr. Charles S. Schneider Mr. John…
  • p. 770 …Co. Inc. R:ye, N. Y. Capt. Albert C. T;r.-akowski Watson Laboratories Red Bank…
  • p. 799 Journal Transcriptions Albert P. Crary 17 April 2, 1946-May 8, 1946, and December 2, 1946…
  • p. 807 …3-25 cre•r:lt Yosher, Lt Alberts, Sgt ? Oliva arrived Alamo. by train this ~ Feb…
  • p. 843 22 Interview Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Col Albert Trakowski, USAF (Ret…
  • p. 979 Albert P. Crary (left) and technician Phil Chantz taking a break during Project MOGUL operations at…
  • p. 980 The distinguished scientists Albert P. Crary (left) and Dr. W. Maurice Ewing collaborated at various scien…
  • p. 982 …be part of a flying saucer. Capt. Albert C. Trakowski who succeeded Colonel Duffy as MOGUL…
  • p. 984 …Photo Collection of Albert P. Crary. This modified PT boat that was assigned to Project MOGUL…
  • p. 985 …Photo Collection of Albert P. Crary. Standard 350-gram meteorological weather balloons in the North Hangar…
Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with
Professor Charles Moore
(A) Professor Charles Moore
Project Engineer - Project Mogul
(Q) Colonel Jeff Butler
(Q) Lieutenant Jim McAndrew
8 June 1994
A: ... or. Spilhaus, who you may have met, was really the
Director of the project.
Q:
regards.
We talked with him last week. He sends you his
He's a very interesting man to chat with.
A: But I was essentially the project engineer and a
graduate student, whereas he was Director of Research at New York
University at that time.
Q: We have gone through many of the various technical
documents related to Project Mogul and some of the other work
that you and Dr. Spilhaus and others have done with the Constant
Altitude balloon projects. According to Dr. Spilhaus, he said
you would be the technical expert as it related to those types of
projects in terms of the materials involved, the instrumentation,
that sort of thing. Is that a pretty accurate statement?
A: I think that's correct.
Q: What we're really here for is to discuss this that came
out in the newspaper and the General Accounting Office's
investigation of how we deal with records, the acquisition, and
ultimately disposition. There is an allegation that the
Government is involved in a conspiracy and coverup of something
that occurred in 1947, which is the allegation of their being
some sort of flying disk, flying saucer, UFO, what have you.
A: That's correct.
Q: Of course the people who put out things such as this
journal, MUFON, Mutual UFO Network, the books that have been
written by William Moore, and Randall Schmidt, and others, a lot
of the popular television shows, they've just exacerbated the
situation where a lot of things, quotations, some of your
quotations taken out of context. One of the individuals,
Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence
Corps officer at (Roswell] Army Airfield who actuall} went out
with Jesse Marcel to recover some material that has b~en alleged
to be the results of a UFO which Colonel Cavitt specifically
states looked like a weather balloon to him.
A: I'm aware that he had been there, but I'd understood
that other quotations had been attributed to him.
Q: Yes, sir. As we go through this, I believe I've got a
copy of essentially a statement he made to Colonel Weaver, whom

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