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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.
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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. 30 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.
FOIA release, from the osd collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is under it. 993 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.