Documents / FOIA release

roswell

Office of the Secretary of Defense · 993 pages · text from the file's own layer

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 …Special thanks go to Athelstan and Kathy Spilhaus, Charles and Wilma Moore, Col. Albert and Jean…
  • p. 12 …June 3, 1994 21. Statement, Charles B. Moore, June 8, 1994, and Hieroglyphic and Balloon Train…
  • p. 13 …8, 1946 10. Hieroglyphic Drawing, Charles B. Moore, August 28, 1992 11. Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of…
  • p. 14 …F. Spilhaus, C.S. Schneider, C.B. Moore, "Controlled-Altitude Free Balloons," Journal of Meteorology, Vol…
  • p. 15 …Trakowski and Dr. James Peoples Charles B. Moore U.S. Army GR-3 Sound Ranging Set…
  • p. 18 …contributions to Antarctic research; and Charles B. Moore, Project Engineer at NYU and an atmospheric physicist…
  • p. 29 …crashed UFO. Similarly, two authors, William L. Moore and Charles Berlitz, also engaged in research which…
  • p. 31 …The Roswell Incident (1980) by William Moore and Charles Berlitz; "Crashed Saucers: Evidence in Search of…
  • p. 41 …Additionally, transcripts of the interview with Moore and Trakowski are also included (equipment malfunctioned during the…
  • p. 42 …The interview with Professor Moore indicated that these gaps were the unlogged "service flights." Professor Moore…
  • p. 43 …The material and a "black box," described by Cavitt, was, in Moore's scientific opinion, most…
  • p. 44 …device. These persons included Professor Charles B. Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally, Karl Pflock, a researcher…
  • p. 45 …An actual device was also obtained for study with the assistance of Professor Moore. (The example…
  • p. 48 …Signed Sworn Statement of Moore, June 8, 1994 22. Signed Sworn Statement of Trakowski, June 29…
  • p. 171 …Berlitz and Moore? MC: Now, you see, he was here at the house. I've heard…
  • p. 185 …Was it with Berlitz and Moore? SC: Our son sent this book to us. RW: This…
  • p. 201 …I recommend you check with Charlie Moore for those details. Many of the projects I just…
  • p. 203 21 Statement, with Hieroglyphic and Balloon Train Drawings Charles B. Moore June 8, 1994
  • p. 205 …NM C/3!_4 I, Charles B Moore, hereby state that Jeffrey Buder, was identified as…
  • p. 206 …it was in about 1980 that William Moore contacted me and asked questions about balloons making…
  • p. 208 …saw one of these targets more than 20 years ago . ) c.a. Moore August 28, 1992
  • p. 213 …Charlie Moore was primarily responsible for development of the constant level balloons for lifting the instrument…
  • p. 215 …Col Jeffrey Butler and 1st Lt James McAndrew with Professor Charles B. Moore June 8, 1994
  • p. 217 Transcript from 8 June 94, Interview with Professor Charles Moore (A) Professor Charles Moore Project Engineer…
  • p. 218 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 you've talked with also. Colonel Weaver talked with Sheridan Cavitt…
  • p. 219 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 not leave any creases. This material looks like it would almost…
  • p. 220 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: we have tried to reach Colonel Trakowski, and he has…
  • p. 221 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 5 A: .•. much of which we can copy and make it…
  • p. 222 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 6 Q: w.w. Brazel mentions eyelets which appear in the…
  • p. 223 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: A guy named Sam Kay formed a company and it…
  • p. 224 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: That's about two mil polyethylene here. Q: Obviously, you…
  • p. 225 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 At the same time, then Captain Fletcher was assigned ••• Duffy had…
  • p. 226 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 strings from these four corners. Obviously, trying to take something that…
  • p. 227 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 11 balloons out of a Goodyear film called pliofilm. It was…
  • p. 228 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 12 this manual in '44. I was commissioned in September of…
  • p. 229 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 13 A: No, we didn't. Q: Not a letter or…
  • p. 230 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: The early nylon line, would it have degraded, such as…
  • p. 231 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 15 June 4th, "Out to Tulerosa Range and fired charges between…
  • p. 232 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 16 have ambiguities. You don't know if it went up…
  • p. 233 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 17 A: What the wind did. The description that Brazel gives…
  • p. 234 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 18 executive officer of a flight detachment at Newark Airport. I…
  • p. 235 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: He was unsuccessful? A: He was unsuccessful. Q: What method…
  • p. 236 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: How did you come in possession of it? A: Todd…
  • p. 237 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 21 It's of interest, in the Holloman report there's…
  • p. 238 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 22 A: No. we were the balloonists. This was all ground…
  • p. 239 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 23 Here's a nice paper that came through courtesy of…
  • p. 240 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: No. A: He worked for a Tracer lab and is…
  • p. 241 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: There's a gray area here. I was certainly aware…
  • p. 242 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: Oh, yeah. I visited people in Washington. Q: Just for…
  • p. 243 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: But you had them available for study, but you didn…
  • p. 244 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 28 Q: so is that pretty much maybe a condition of…
  • p. 245 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Q: The service flights were which ones? A: The ones carrying…
  • p. 246 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 "Excluded are those two tests' special gear in launches which were…
  • p. 247 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 31 Q: so you made your plan in New York to…
  • p. 248 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/~/94 32 from north hangar and from Cloudcroft for awhile. Nothing from Roswell…
  • p. 249 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: By a pressure switch. Q: were those tracked? Was there…
  • p. 250 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 34 miles. Then he had Don Edmondson went to Silver City…
  • p. 251 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 35 A: Brush recorders. (Strip charge) recorders feeding out at high…
  • p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
  • p. 253 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 A: As I say, I find it hard to think that…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: By a pressure switch.
Q: were those tracked? Was there some sort of log that
would tell you where those particular balloons were? You
wouldn't want to just release TNT to float anywhere, would you?
A: They wouldn't float. The balloons would just go up
until they burst. And we were on the edge of the restricted
area. So the answer is yes, we did.
33
I'll have to get back to this. The radar tracking turned
out to be abysmally poor. I don't know why, but they were
abysmally poor. That's why I got off onto this part of it. And
when you asked me the V-2 question ••.
Let me finish this, and then we'll get back to what you
asked.
"Thursday morning, cluster of GM balloons sent out, V-2 not
fired, no shots fired. Balloons up for some time, no recording.
Pi Ball showed no West winds. Balloons picked up by radar, WS."
I presume that means White Sands. You'll find this hard .•• and
hunted by somebody's name I couldn't get. It looks like
Maryalls' "C-54, located on Tulerosa Range by air. Out PM with
several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it.
Rocket postponed until 7:30 p.m. Thursday night," which was the
third. "But on last minute before balloon went up, V-2 was
called off on of accident at White Sands. Sent up cluster
balloons with dummy load. Balloon Flight 10 on dawn, July 5th,
had gone out with C-54, again with Moses and Dufeld to hunt for
Flight 8 but not sure was found then."
Then I added a note here, "Flight 8 was never recovered."
"C-54 went to El Paso July 4th and picked up single smith
plastic balloon and GM cluster plastic balloons."
So the answer is yes. We did try to coordinate the balloon
launchings for the V-2 firings, and Crary would also take that as
a time of opportunity to go out on the desert and fire TNT. He
had vast stocks of explosives available to him.
Q: Was that primarily on the White Sands range, or did he
go out into other areas, say Northwest of Roswell? Did he
contract with any of the ranchers to use these locales, other
than the actual missile range itself?
A: I think all the explosions he made were coordinated
with the White Sands Proving Ground people. Alamagordo Airfield,
later Holloman, was just on the fringe of the proving ground at
that time. Crary sent his men to all sorts of places -- over to
Roswell, to Artesia, to Hagerman, up and down the Pecos River
area. He had a place you'll read about, Fabians, Texas, which
turns out to be just down the Rio Grande from El Paso, maybe so

Cases discussed

About this file

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.