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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. 40 …debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) subordinate, Lewis Rickett, who, like Marcel, is…
  • p. 45 …assembly) were located at the Army Signal Corps Museum at Fort Monmouth and were obtained. A…
  • p. 75 …and a Counter Intelligence Corps Officer, Sheridan Cavitt, went to the ranch to inspect the material…
  • p. 105 …Colonel Oliver LaFarge, Air Reserve Corps, at Santa Fe, made atrangernents for Colonel Blanchard to visit…
  • p. 159 …or unlawful inducement. ~ ~I was a Counterintelligence Corps (CIC) Special Agent for the US Army AU…
  • p. 163 …the Army Air Corps... right. RW: When did you get transferred to Roswell, Sir? SC: I…
  • p. 166 …activity like that, I was Counter Intelligence Corps, this didn't have anything to do with…
  • p. 168 …There was nobody else out there from CIC or Counter Intelligence Corps that you knew of…
  • p. 169 …did, in the Air Force; the Air Corps. I think they wanted to ... they were having…
  • p. 170 …six) "was an agent in the counterintelligence corps. He accompanied another intelligence officer on the initial…
  • p. 172 …Not that you personally did, but the Army Air Corps in general: "The trip to the…
  • p. 213 …Previously, I was appointed as the laboratory chief in the Signal Corps as an Air Force…
  • p. 214 …Some of the contractors lined up were not quite in concert with typical Signal Corps practices…
  • p. 217 …One of the individuals, Sheridan Cavitt, who at that time was a Counter-Intelligence Corps officer…
  • p. 224 …Colonel Duffy was assigned to extract meteorological.equipment out of the Signal_Corps in 1943. There…
  • p. 225 …Colonel Duffy talked to the field artillery that was procuring through the Signal Corps, gun-laying…
  • p. 236 …During WWII, the ·signal Corps had laid on them the requirement to develop a constant level…
  • p. 246 …V-2s and other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White Sands. So…
  • p. 264 …I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and 270-s, etc., but this was…
  • p. 268 …We talked with the Signal Corps up at Fort Monmouth and that's where we got…
  • p. 274 …I was an Air Force officer assigned to the Signal Corps as part of Colonel Duffy…
  • p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force? A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
  • p. 278 …It was the Signal Corps' responsibility to procure those targets; it was not the responsibility of…
  • p. 279 …He got into a considerable amount of, shall we say, controversy with the Signal Corps because…
  • p. 299 …a) US Army Signal Corps Museum, Ft Gordon GA Mr Ted Wise, Director, DSN 780-2818…
  • p. 318 …Maj J~sse Marcel, and two Counterintelligence Corps Agents, Capt Sheridan Cavitt and MSgt Lewis Rickett…
  • p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment from…
  • p. 517 …A modified radiosonde-type aneroid pressure capsule (Signal Corps ML 310-/) has been the basic sensing…
  • p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a rotating cylinder of insulating material…
  • p. 731 …Army Air Corps Stratosphere Flight of 1934 in the Balloon 'Explorer'", Contributed Tec~ical Papers of…
  • p. 761 …4· Richard Hassard, a forEr Signal Corps Officer was hired because ot his general knowledge of…
  • p. 763 …Griffith 11/7/II:> Visking Corp. Chicago, Ill. Mr. Cahn 12/4/11:> Visking Corp. Chicago…
  • p. 764 12/16/46 Celanese Celluloid Corp. 180 }ladison J, venue New York, ~i. i.. 12/17…
  • p. 765 …Smith 1/3/47 Visking Corp. Chicago, Ill. Att: J. L. Lane 1/8/47 Watson…
  • p. 766 …1/21/47 Shellmar·Projects Corp. Mt. Vernon, Ohio 1/21/47 Milprint Inc. Milwaukee, Wise…
  • p. 767 …toPermission withheld. place subcontract with Unexcelled Chern. Corp. for the fabrication of be.lloons. Request th…
  • p. 768 …J • 3/7/47 Plax Corp. Hartford, Conn. Mr. R. E• .Ames Same recuest as letter…
  • p. 769 3/19/47 Unexcelled Chem. Corp. New Brunswick, N.J. Att: 2~r. Tegen 3/';:1…
  • p. 781 …Plastics & Packaging No 1-f.J.lwa.ukee 1, Wisconsin Celanese Plastics Corp. Plastics & Packaging No…
  • p. 783 …As the motor switched modulator ~us already i~ experimental state of manufacture for the Signal Corps…
  • p. 810 …date, talked to Lt Dyer of Signal Corps regarding for tomorrow firing. Chantz and Bill went…
  • p. 811 …Delayed trip to Silver City to talk over Signal Corps Communication with Peoples, Ball this PM…
  • p. 812 …Left Alamogordo about 9 am, Chantz, Porter and myself, 2 Signal Corps men along. Stopped at…
  • p. 908 …As presently designed, the modulator contains a standard Signal Corps ML-310E radiosonde aneroid unit, a…
  • p. 981 …Army Signal Corps, Saipan, in 1944. Photo Courtesy of Mrs. Emily Duffy. Dr. Athelstan F. Spilhaus…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18
executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I
got back from overseas in February of '46, I think. After
getting out of the replacement depot, I got assigned back to
Colonel Duffy and was assigned at Newark. I went on terminal
leave something like July of '46 and went back to Georgia Tech
and finished two quarters. I had two quarters to finish at
Georgia Tech. While I was at Georgia Tech I began working with
a microwave, an anonymous propagation research group that turned
out, oddly enough, was under Colonel Duffy's direction. I didn't
know it. It had nothing to do with my getting deployed there,
but I had a student assistanceship working on that.
I made some report, and my name came back in front of
Colonel Duffy in September, I think, of 1 46, and I got asked to
come up to his office. I think he was still at Bradley Beach,
Sharp River Hills Hotel there near Belmar, New Jersey. When I
was there, who should come in but Spilhaus. They told me they
had a problem involving balloons and asked if I would be
interested in working with them, and they offered me a graduate
assistanceship at NYU, and I wanted to go to graduate school in
physics, so I was delighted to have that opportunity. That was
either September or October of 1 46.
Q: So Spilhaus, since he was on the staff there, he
invited you to come to New York University.
A: Yes, he did.
Q: So you went to New York University when?
A: Right after
had already started.
a copy of (inaudible)
have all of that.
Christmas. January 1, 1947. The program
I presume you have all the details. I have
letter to General Spaatz. I presume you
Q: I believe we do, but I'd still like to review it and
make sure it's the same letter.
A: In any event, there was a big push. I guess after
Operation Crossroads the first nuclear test in the Pacific was in
July of '46, and Crary, because of the long range detection
concept, Crary was sent to Ascension Island which is the antipode
for, as close as they could get to the antipode for Bikini, and
failed to detect any signal from Operation Crossroads, from the
nuclear explosion.
Q: You mentioned detection. What drove the aspect of
detection? Was it because of our test?
A: Yes, our test was being used as a signal source. The
question was in order to detect any Soviet test, could we detect
our own tests. So Crary was essentially sent to Ascension to see
if he could detect the nuclear explosion.

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