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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. 28 …Major Marcel and "a man in plain clothes" then accompanied Brazel home to pick up the…
  • p. 29 …sort of attachment may have been used. Brazel said that he had previously found two weather…
  • p. 38 …of rancher W.W. Brazel). Affidavit dated May 5, 1991. " ... Brazel came to my ranch and…
  • p. 39 …The color of the printing was a kind of purple ...." Bessie Brazel Schreiber (daughter of W…
  • p. 43 …and was ultimately found by the rancher, Brazel, ten days later. This possibility was supported by…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …source of the wreckage recovered from the Brazel Ranch was from one of the Project MOGUL…
  • p. 75 …For e:wnple:. • According to his son arid neighbors, Brazel was held incommunicado by officials at…
  • p. 172 …Colonel Wdliam Blanchard and the other officer suggested that Marcel and CIC agent accompanied Brazel to…
  • p. 174 …certainly don't remember ever meeting Mr. Brazel or Brazzel, whatever his name was. RW: O…
  • p. 187 …a follow up article where they interview Brazel (the rancher), and he descnoed this stuff almost…
  • p. 218 …material that was found, supposedly by Mac Brazel, somewhere northwest of Roswell, New Mexico. They talk…
  • p. 222 …Going back to Brazel, you state that you think it could not be one of the…
  • p. 233 …The description that Brazel gives here that everything would weigh about five pounds when it was…
  • p. 252 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 Brazel gives the impression that it is the smoky rubber of…
  • p. 318 THE ROSWELL INCIDENT On July 7, 1947, W.W. (Mac) Brazel, a rancher from approximately 75…
  • p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the photos of the…
  • p. 328 …were later reported by Marcel, Cavitt, and Brazel as being on the debris found on the…
  • p. 379 …anywhere on the instrument, al- Brazel was brought here late ty, age 14, went back to…
  • p. 986 …of the type that W.W. "Mac" Brazel recovered on a ranch near Corona, NM, in…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: You're right.
Q: This has it coming down northwest.
A: What's the origin of this?
Q: It's in the back of one of the reports.
A: It looks to me like it may have been out of this
report.
Q: Not every report had this graphic depiction like this
which was number eight.
(Pause to look through documents)
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A: With those numbers it wouldn't have been in that first
report because these flights were much later.
Q: Technical Report No. 1.
A: Right. And Flight 58 and 55 aren't going to be in that
early report. They occurred after that report was written.
(Pause)
A: I would say what was in that first report is more
accurate than this. This, I think, occurred after I left NYU.
It's a general summary. Flight 11 was a very important flight.
They got very important data on it -- Crary and Peoples.
Q:
on it. Spilhaus based his article from Journal of Meteorology
A: Right, and he wrote a paper in the bulletin. The fact
that the balloon trajectory has this hook in it when it went over
the mountain ridge •••
Q: That's obviously the (ano-cyclonic] winds aloft.
A: Exactly. So he and Bernard Harwitz were very excited
about the fact that the balloon at nominal constant level, had a
change in direction when the air was forced over the mountain
barrier, and they published a special paper on that. So
everybody was happy with this flight.
As soon as that flight was made, that was the 7th, and we
went home on the 8th.
Q: That would be the reason why there would be no one
there in the area who could explain this debris that was brought
in. There were no experts there who dealt with this particular
type of material or radar reflectors.

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