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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. 6 …Kathy Spilhaus, Charles and Wilma Moore, Col. Albert and Jean Trakowski, Lt. Col. Sheridan and Mary…
  • p. 12 …Statement, Albert C. Trakowski, June 29, 1994 23. Interview, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James…
  • p. 14 …Personal Journal of Albert P. Crary 18. New York University, Progress Report No. 7, Constant Level…
  • p. 15 …Yates Albert P. Crary and Phil Chantz Dr. W. Maurice Ewing and Albert P. Crary Dr…
  • p. 18 …editor of the Journal of Geophysical Research; Albert P. Crary, also a civilian Air Force scientist…
  • p. 41 …Moore; and the military Project Officer, Colonel Albert C. Trakowski. All of these persons were subsequently…
  • p. 42 …An advance ground team, led by Albert P. Crary, preceded the NYU group to Alamogordo Army…
  • p. 211 Statement Albert C. Trakowski June 29, 1994 22
  • p. 219 …You, perhaps, have talked to Albert Trakowski ••.
  • p. 220 …Anyway, Albert Trakowski was the Watson Laboratory project officer on this. When I raised this question…
  • p. 224 …Only what Albert Trakowski told me, that our friend John Peterson, the procurement man, was just…
  • p. 230 …The reason I have it identified is I have Albert Crary's diary. The scientific end…
  • p. 247 …V-2 firings? A: Those went independently. Albert Crary was monitoring the V-2 firings. Q…
  • p. 271 24 Interview Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Col Albert C. Trakowski, USAF…
  • p. 273 Colonel Albert Trakowski 29 June 1994 Q: We have concluded) independently from several other researchers the…
  • p. 320 …Crane, spring 1946-July 1946; Col Marcellus Duffy, August 1946-January, 1947; and Capt Albert C…
  • p. 322 …Personal journal of Albert P. Crary, p. 13. 20. Ibid., pp. 4-16. 21. Ibid., p…
  • p. 327 …Intvw, Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Col Albert C. Trakowski, USAF (Ret…
  • p. 330 …79; Untr~scribed journal of Albert P. Crary, p. 64.
  • p. 408 …personnel were as follows: BAllOON TEAM: Dr. Albert P. Crary Mr. Charles S. Schneider Mr. John…
  • p. 770 …Co. Inc. R:ye, N. Y. Capt. Albert C. T;r.-akowski Watson Laboratories Red Bank…
  • p. 799 Journal Transcriptions Albert P. Crary 17 April 2, 1946-May 8, 1946, and December 2, 1946…
  • p. 807 …3-25 cre•r:lt Yosher, Lt Alberts, Sgt ? Oliva arrived Alamo. by train this ~ Feb…
  • p. 843 22 Interview Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Col Albert Trakowski, USAF (Ret…
  • p. 979 Albert P. Crary (left) and technician Phil Chantz taking a break during Project MOGUL operations at…
  • p. 980 The distinguished scientists Albert P. Crary (left) and Dr. W. Maurice Ewing collaborated at various scien…
  • p. 982 …be part of a flying saucer. Capt. Albert C. Trakowski who succeeded Colonel Duffy as MOGUL…
  • p. 984 …Photo Collection of Albert P. Crary. This modified PT boat that was assigned to Project MOGUL…
  • p. 985 …Photo Collection of Albert P. Crary. Standard 350-gram meteorological weather balloons in the North Hangar…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 23
Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of Todd. In
'48 there was a big operation in the Pacific for Operation
Sandstone, and we were heavily involved in that. Here's the
Fitzwilliam ••• Schneider and J.R. Smith ••• My chief associate
technically was a fellow named Dick Smith, James Richard Smith,
who unfortunately, died two years ago. Smith and Schneider and
some other of my associates went out on Sandstone to Kwajelin,
Guam, and then Oahu.
Q: I've seen that in publication. I have to acquire it.
A: You can xerox it.
Q: Moving chronologically, Professor EWing had affiliation
with Woods Hole, and he was a meteorologist by trade?
A: No, oceanographer. He was a physicist, a geo-
physicist.
Q: What was he doing at Columbia?
A: I think he ended up head of the Department of Geo-
Physics. I don't know the details.
Q: For the AMC contract he was developing ...
A: He, as we, were contractors.
Q: He was developing the acoustical •••
A: That's correct.
Q: That acoustical gear, this is a later flight but it•s a
fairly good depiction. It shows payload here, and payload is
mentioned in a lot of the reports without any further
elaboration, what the payload was. That was primarily the low
frequency microphones ••.
A: That was their euphemism for •••
Q: So as not to be able to talk about what was then a
classified payload.
A: Here are the sort of instruments. A chamber with a
leak in it, and then a method of sensing the pressure inside the
chamber. That affected the frequency of an oscillator that came
to ground. That's the sort of thing that was developed at
Columbia.
Q: Dr. Spilhaus also mentioned about trying to detect
particulate matter.
A: That was another operation. A Tracer lab, have you
come across Charlie Ziegler at Brandeis?

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