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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 …at Roswell Army Air Field, Major Jesse A. Marcel, had recovered a "flying disc" from the…
  • p. 38 …Marcel, MD (son of the late Major Jesse Marcel; 11 years old at the time of…
  • p. 39 …and Maj Jesse Marcel. Capt. William E. Anderson said it was from a flying saucer. After…
  • p. 75 …The base Intelligence Officer, Jesse A. Marcel. and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt, went…
  • p. 159 …I did know both Jesse Marcel and Bill Rickett very well (both are now deceased). I…
  • p. 163 …Did you know a Major Jesse Marcel who was the Intelligence Officer during Roswell at that…
  • p. 167 …The first picture is actually with Jesse Marcel and that's General Blanchard and ... SC: I…
  • p. 172 …Jesse Marcel was one. "The intelligence and the CIC responded to the phone call. Jesse Marcel…
  • p. 173 …I remember we were at the Marcel's house and I can remember Jesse had something…
  • p. 185 …Neol (Marcel's wife) apparently was not able to give any infonnation after Jesse died.
  • p. 188 …He wouldn't have known anything with Jesse? SC: No. No. Jesse didn't trust Don…
  • p. 217 …Army Airfield who actuall} went out with Jesse Marcel to recover some material that has b…
  • p. 219 …and had a few beers and that Jesse Marcel just took a piece and stuck it…
  • p. 379 …originally gave tbe'<information of Jesse_. A. Mateel and a m~n In up the tinfoil…
  • p. 990 …Jesse Marcel. Crashed saucer theorists allege that the debris depicted with Major Marcel is not the…
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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