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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. 42 …The "payload equipment" was expendable, and some carried no "Reward" or "Return to ... " tags because there…
  • p. 43 …the balloon material and radar target material would be scattered after returning to earth depending on…
  • p. 205 …The balloon material and radar target material would be scattered after returning to the earth depending…
  • p. 206 …These and the radar test flights had no tags-we did not want these to be…
  • p. 213 …Concerning a cover story for the project Mogul, there was no planned cover story. I do…
  • p. 220 …returned our calls. We'~e left messages on his answering machine, and there's been no…
  • p. 231 …radar reflectors, that would have been with a neoprene type balloon. A: There were no plastic…
  • p. 259 …And no one mentioned it to you. No one said hey, look, we had to do…
  • p. 323 …Moore and his technicians conducted test flights, attempting to obtain a better radar return by attaching…
  • p. 324 …returns were received by the radar. This procedure, according to Moore, was employe~ on flight nos…
  • p. 325 …This eliminated the need for radar "comer reflectors" on the balloon train since radar was not…
  • p. 326 …It now appears that the debris from MOGUL flight no. 4 had come ·to earth on…
  • p. 327 …Rawin is short for radar wind, a technique in which a single comer reflector is towed…
  • p. 330 …In fad, when the NYU I AMC group returned to Alamogordo in September, their first tdp…
  • p. 841 …On 19 July, a 130 toot balloon carrying no radar reflector was tracked. Radar contact was…
  • p. 842 …During this time, no target was visible at any time and no further radar contact was…
  • p. 986 …to enhance radar returns, contributed to the confusion when Mogul Flight No. 4 returned to earth…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 12
this manual in '44. I was commissioned in September of '43,
finally, and then finished the school in November, was assigned
to write this manual which was finished in the summer of '44, and
then I got an assignment to China.
Q: With Dr. Spilhaus? ·
A: No. I ended up being the weather equipment officer for
CBI and the Spilhaus came over later. At that time the war was
going very much better. Spilhaus and Duffy had a long range
storm detection system, the spheric system, the predecessor of
what's used now for lightning detection, the storm scopes, and
the LLP. If you're familiar with LLP, the lightning location
system ••.
Q: Used by the Weather Service.
A: We have one of the stations here on campus.
actually have, if you're interested later on we'll go
show you, we have a map of the lightning strokes over
u.s. as they occur. We have a read-out right here in
laboratory.
Q: So you're doing that work from China?
And we
over and
the entire
our
A: Spilhaus came over with the spherics net, it was
called, and got a station installed in Chianting, China to work,
of course, for the bombing of Japan. So Spilhaus came over I
think the summer of '45 is when he came over. We had the radio
wind, the ra-win, the SCR-658s, we had a number of them that were
being installed. We had one up in Yunan in the communist area;
we had several of them in China for getting good wind
measurements. Spilhaus had been involved in that. I think by
'45 it was clear that things would be over relatively soon. We
thought we'd be back in '48. In any event, he got an assignment
over to lOth Weather in the summer of '45 and came over.
Q: At what point did you ever hear the term long range
detection?
A: That's a good question. I didn't know the name Mogul
until Robert Todd told me two years ago. I'd never heard the
name Mogul -- the classification was that high. I knew what we
were doing. When "Helgoland" was exploded in April of 1 47, we
had balloons in the air. We launched balloons out of the Watson
Laboratory, actually Eatontown, what had been the Eatontown
Signal Laboratory, but I think it was now Watson Laboratory. In
any event, we launched a string of balloons, even though we
didn't have [constant-level] balloons, we still carried
microphones aloft and a C-54 orbited overhead and followed the
balloons out to sea. I have no idea about the results that they
got.
Q: Did you number that balloon flight?

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