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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. 43 …to the sun for only a few days. The plasticizers and antioxidants in the neoprene would…
  • p. 205 …ashes after exposure to the sun for only a few days. The balloon material and radar…
  • p. 221 …to the sun. Q: Is this the neoprene type or the ••• A: That's the neoprene…
  • p. 230 …such as the balloon material degraded, and maybe fused in the hot sun? 14 A: I…
  • p. 282 …We worked in the old Sun newspaper building in downtown Baltimore. Q: They had intelligence personnel…
  • p. 465 …the values of superheat ob- tained by the gas when the balloon is in the sun…
  • p. 484 …Superheat and Its Effects The effect of the heatin~ of lifting gas by the sun's…
  • p. 489 …Since the effect of the sun in heating the lifting gas decreases the effect of different…
  • p. 524 …when the ex- ternal temperature was measured, since no adequate protection from the sun was available…
  • p. 525 …Daytime flights had the added advantage or heating from the sun. The temperature of the lifting…
  • p. 541 …in the aneroid val~e as intermittent clouds shut off' the sun, and (3) the overcompensation…
  • p. 547 …stmset, and the balloon took on superheat whioh was lost_when the sun went down. ntis…
  • p. 558 …the transmitter was not insulated, and there was no heat to be gained .from the sun…
  • p. 570 …Since the sun had set between the third and -40-
  • p. 579 during the sunset descent (caused when the superheated helium lost the sun's heating ei'i…
  • p. 591 …that seen earlier with the balloon gas being warmed by the sun to acquire a superheat…
  • p. 666 …the changing buoyancy of the balloon as cloud masses intermittently shielded it from the sun's…
  • p. 736 …the subst;q.uent descent, superheating of the balloons by the nsmg sun would cause the…
  • p. 739 …Flight termination was usually due to deteriora- tion of the balloon caused by the sun. In…
  • p. 740 …the ambient tem- perature after the sun had risen. The automatic ballast valve operates. when the…
  • p. 801 …April 14 Sun. Down to lab this am with Joe looking for G9A files. Jim Peoples…
  • p. 802 …Discussed with Crane possibilities of getting sound through the ground part of the ocean sound channel…
  • p. 803 …Over to Jim and Rowes tonight and to Euzzards Bay bowling, l'ay 5 Sun. L…
  • p. 806 …Stayed at Amarillo - at Clinton Hotel Jan 19 Sun Left Amarillo about 1130 CST IC.ent…
  • p. 808 …Correlated between the ~ower and Dona sites for se·reral sources. 'o!orked total travel times…
  • p. 810 …April 6 Sun. Checked clocks. Cleaned out hanger and emptied trash out at East White Sands…
  • p. 811 …April 20 Sun. Worked on plans for bombing runs and V2 monitoring. April 21 Mon. Alamogordo…
  • p. 812 …All equipment loaded on plane this pm. ~ay J-4 Sat, Sun. Left Alamogordo about 9…
  • p. 815 …29 June (Sun) NYU personnel and some of Watson Lab men working today with equipment in…
  • p. 816 …July 1a Sun. to cabins in Ohio just out of Springfield. July 1 Mon. To cabins…
  • p. 852 …4C.~~~ies• .tJi~J.tl~e ..• a 'telemeteririg ·device to indicate· the rate of ballast flow…
  • p. 861 …a sun- set. (3) By adding altitude control equipment, it is possible to maintain the balloon…
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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