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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. 45 …In an attempt to read this text to determine if it could shed any further light…
  • p. 78 SUGGESTED READING. Blue Book Special Report 14 and the Project Sign and Project Grudge reports. These…
  • p. 146 …reference to the securit7 ot this countrr. Read his plana in detaU to Gen. Vandenberg and…
  • p. 148 …Van advised it would not get by Secretary Pattersc Have to take a reading on exactly…
  • p. 159 …although I know now from reading about this incident in nwnerous books that it was taken…
  • p. 160 CONTINUATION SHEET FOR AF FORM 1168 AND 1169 / / / I funher state that I have read this…
  • p. 169 …and I don't know how much you read it, is that Rickett some time later…
  • p. 170 …rmjust reading this end quote "book." No, No. I assume .. .! assume when I read this thing…
  • p. 171 …Rich, have you got, read, Randle and Schmitt's latest book? RW: I've not. I…
  • p. 178 …He's the type that would read a book while he was on a road trip…
  • p. 180 …quite intelligent. SC: Oh, yeah. He reacl. Read books while he was on road trips. RW…
  • p. 187 …But in reading over some of my other garbage here, I have seen some hieroglyphics. I…
  • p. 188 …You just read through it. I remember something about some hieroglyphics, not on that one. I…
  • p. 225 …Like taking a Pi Ball reading now. A: Exactly. It was called a Pi Ball then…
  • p. 228 …We have a read-out right here in laboratory. Q: So you're doing that work…
  • p. 241 …When I read this, I was not at all surprised. I interpreted that as saying someone…
  • p. 244 …project for AMC?" or were they not read on to the project at all? A: By…
  • p. 247 …Let me just read this. This is Crary's summary for the week of 30 June…
  • p. 249 …He had a place you'll read about, Fabians, Texas, which turns out to be just…
  • p. 251 …You'll see, when you read the Duffy thing, where Duffy thinks maybe there were things…
  • p. 254 …I find that of interest because apparently in reading some of the various things that happened…
  • p. 262 …I read to you one about some equipment had been stolen by the time we got…
  • p. 307 …I have read my rights as listed above and I fully un stand my rights. No…
  • p. 308 …unlawful influence, or unlawful (o affirm)/ have read this statement, initialed all pages and co ions…
  • p. 518 …from one contact to another give ambiguous readings, since the number of discrete resistances used is…
  • p. 520 …flights when the balloon is floating be read to the nearest two-tenths of a percent…
  • p. 521 …flight the accuracy of the data warrants reading only to the nearest one percent of a…
  • p. 639 …Coupled with the height data, theodolite readings provide a fairly reliable horizontal locus of the balloon…
  • p. 643 …Go vertically to the diagonal line representing the balloon's size, and then read horizontally on…
  • p. 646 …For our purposes, we wish to find F and have modified the equation to reads - 18 -
  • p. 671 …helix rotating once a minute, the pressure read- ability of' this system will be better than…
  • p. 711 …However, on reading them, a discrepancy was noted. We believe the weather conditions agreed upon for…
  • p. 841 …Signal return remained above satura- tion until a range of 7K yards was read, at which…
  • p. 842 …the flight with their elevation and azimuth readings repeated on the antenna. The MPS-6 antenna…
  • p. 887 …after valving them before taking final pressure readings. B. Length of Balloon Bubble The volume of…
  • p. 889 …to the extreme left-hand edge and read the altitude. The volume of the balloon is…
  • p. 907 …by noting the plane's position where the compass reading is reversed. the position of the…
  • p. 911 …The position of the leading edge of the pressure signal is then read to the nearest…
  • p. 915 …percentage of the turns as read on the nomogram. The lowest pressure reading is numbered as…
  • p. 918 …be thus determined by anyone who can read Morse code with a suitable radio receiver. T…
  • p. 923 …Corrections for curvature of the pressure record may be read directly from Figure 37, Which gives…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 5
A: .•. much of which we can copy and make it easier for
you. These are balloon fragments, things that held balloons [up]
after they'd been exposed to the sun.
Q: Is this the neoprene type or the •••
A: That's the neoprene type. I have the polyethylene
type ...
Q: Is this from the '47 era?
A: That's a balloon probably from the '50s. That's a K-
San balloon. The kind of balloons we used then were the
(inaudible) derricks balloons, and that's the way they look after
they've been out in the sun. That's about three weeks' exposure
to sunlight here in New Mexico.
Q: So the polyethylene really is degraded by sunlight.
A: That's neoprene. All that's neoprene.
Q: This almost looks like ashes of paper.
A: That's right. And there's a big point in some of the
recovery that the material was black •••
Here is the list of the people who,were assigned under
Colonel Duffy in the Air Force liaison office. Istvan's name
you'll find in there. He ended up being in the Titan program
and, I think, retired as a lieutenant colonel maybe back in the
'70s. ·
Schneider was the administrative director of our project.
He and I worked together. He was in Maine, and was not really
technically involved. I have letters from him if you're
interested in seeing them. He says he has no memory of this.
A person who was heavily involved
radar thing was Colonel Joe Fletcher.
asking for his help and he essentially
much.
in developing this whole
I wrote him a letter
says he doesn't remember
Q: He's also been hounded by some of these UFO ...
A: And by Todd and by me.
Q: So it appears as though you, yourself, have done some
extensive research into this particular incident.
A: Until two years ago, I was quite convinced one of our
polyethylene balloons we didn't recover caused it. Then I got
this newspaper, Todd sent me this, and I immediately saw there's
no way that could be a polyethylene balloon.

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