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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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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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