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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. 14 …Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," February 10, 1949 24. New York University, Constant…
  • p. 26 INTRODUCTION Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as the "Roswell Incident…
  • p. 33 …Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) (f) AF /XOW, Directorate of Weather (g) added later The Air Force…
  • p. 43 …a "service flight" that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
  • p. 56 …of air vehicle and other eras~ incidents similar to the reported crash of a weather balloon…
  • p. 99 …390th Air Service Sqdn - No AFHRA files for June/July 1947. 1395th Military Police - No AFHRA…
  • p. 226 …required to track them, issued to the weather services here in New Mexico. Obviously, after the…
  • p. 228 …Used by the Weather Service. A: We have one of the stations here on campus. actually…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 309 …The base weather covered only the base the flight service center covered most of the southwest…
  • p. 318 …it out to wire services. Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 328 …Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," Feb H), 1949.
  • p. 731 …3. "Analysis of Japanese Weather Service", Air Vveather Service Technical Report 45-1, Langley Field, Virginia…
  • p. 847 …by Brigadier General D.N.Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service" February 10, 1949
  • p. 978 …In reality, Andrews AAF was the home of the Army Air Forces Air Weather Service and…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 6
Q: w.w. Brazel mentions eyelets which appear in the
reflectors. There's also, on the polyethylene balloons, the
shroud however you had it hooked on there. There's eyelets
around the base. There was a ring at the neck of the balloon and
then there were attach points to that ring, were there not?
A: But there were no eyelets.
Q: I believe there were. I've reviewed the New York
University documents and there's a very clear depiction in one of
them of eyelets.
A: Okay, I was thinking of the later ••• Here are the NYU
reports, the originals of them.
Q: In one of the configurations they clearly show eyelets
in the drawing.
Q: Going back to Brazel, you state that you think it could
not be one of the polyethylene balloons. He indicates in this
newspaper article that he actually found the debris in mid-June,
however it didn't subsequently come out until July.
A: You're right. That is in one of the polyethylene
balloons, you're correct. I fall back on my plea that my memory
isn't ...
Q:
about.
It comes into depending on what Brazel was speaking
A: There are clearly eyelets here. In fact there's a
little swivel.
He talks about the smoky gray rubber ••.
Q: Which these samples here, as you say, if they'd only
been out for a short time, a matter of days, smoky gray, that's a
very good description of what they looked like.
A: And when you first retrieve it has a bad odor. And
people talked about there being a burned odor.
We need to talk about these neoprene balloons because they
came in different ..• There were two manufacturers-- one, Dewey
& Olney in Cambridge manufactured with a dip process and they had
very much the appearance, if you will, of a condom. They were an
ivory colored jell. The Kaysam company in Patterson made a cast
neoprene emulsion into a mold~ and then they inflated the mold.
They had to put a lot of plasticizers so they could take this wet
jell and inflate it and make it into a meteorologic balloon.
This is a Kaysam balloon here, which I think is not a good
candidate.
Q: Kaysam?

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