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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 …Major Marcel and "a man in plain clothes" then accompanied Brazel home to pick up the…
  • p. 29 …sort of attachment may have been used. Brazel said that he had previously found two weather…
  • p. 38 …of rancher W.W. Brazel). Affidavit dated May 5, 1991. " ... Brazel came to my ranch and…
  • p. 39 …The color of the printing was a kind of purple ...." Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W…
  • p. 43 …and was ultimately found by the rancher, Brazel, ten days later. This possibility was supported by…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …source of the wreckage recovered from the Brazel Ranch was from one of the Project MOGUL…
  • p. 75 …For e:wnple:. • According to his son arid neighbors, Brazel was held incommunicado by officials at…
  • p. 172 …Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 174 …certainly don't remember ever meeting Mr. Brazel or Brazzel, whatever his name was. RW: O…
  • p. 187 …a follow up article where they interview Brazel (the rancher), and he descnoed this stuff almost…
  • p. 218 …material that was found, supposedly by Mac Brazel, somewhere northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. They talk…
  • p. 222 …Going back to Brazel, you state that you think it could not be one of the…
  • p. 233 …The description that Brazel gives here that everything would weigh about five pounds when it was…
  • p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
  • p. 318 THE ROSWELL INCIDENT On July 7, 1947, W.W. (Mac) Brazel, a rancher from approximately 75…
  • p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the photos of the…
  • p. 328 …were later reported by Marcel, Cavitt, and Brazel as being on the debris found on the…
  • p. 379 …anywhere on the instrument, al- Brazel was brought here late ty, age 14, went back to…
  • p. 986 …of the type that W.W. "Mac" Brazel recovered on a ranch near Corona, NM, in…
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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