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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
"Excluded are those two tests' special gear in launches which
were not successful."
A: Right.
Q: so the special gear that's referred to here is the
microphone gear?
A: Yes, sir.
Q: There's another passage that talks about the
intelligence gear. Was that considered also •••
A: Did we make such a faux pas as that?
Q: It's in there.
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Q: I have the classification letter from July of '46. You
might want to review this. Maybe your friend has shown that to
you.
A: No, I've never seen this.
Trakowski argued that even the name Mogul was classified,
and he said it had the same classification as the Manhattan
Project had, which surprises me, because in various reports that
Todd has sent me, such as the monthly progress reports from the
people at later Holloman Air Force Base, Mogul appears in things
that are no higher classification than confidential, but
Trakowski insists that Mogul was super classified.
(END OF SIDE)
Q: This is a copy of the letter you wrote to Colonel
Weaver. One of the things that you talk about in this letter was
that the radar test flights were not reported, which is exactly
what we were discussing a moment ago in your kitchen. Would you
go over again what you just described as far as this particular
test flight that occurred? What we just went through in there.
A: As I said initially, the essence in trying to develop
constant level balloons, we needed to know what the altitude was.
At the same time, we were under a lot of pressure to carry the
test microphones for the Watson Laboratory and Columbia people.
We got into an operation at Alamagordo in early June of 1947, in
which we were required to make flights in which the tracking of
the flights would be provided by the Watson Laboratory Radar that
was already in place at Alamagordo for tracking the V-2s and
other rockets the Ordnance Corps people were flying over at White
Sands. So we came down to fly balloons in early June, in which
the tracking of the flights was to be done by radar, tracking
corner reflector targets, which I think we brought with us. I
don't have any evidence of this.

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