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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. 249 …Pi Ball showed no West winds. Balloons picked up by radar, WS." I presume that means…
  • p. 250 …But I think he had microphones scattered all around in central New Mexico and West Texas…
  • p. 252 …This was really on the northeast corner of the range, just west of the town of…
  • p. 256 …More or less due west of Walker, Roswell Army Air Field. Q: Then this graphic conflicts…
  • p. 322 …equipment at locations in New Mexico and West T~xas. 20 On May 28, the advance…
  • p. 737 …per cent of those released reached the west coast of this country. The balloons floated between…
  • p. 804 …Left Proving Grounds about 2 and went up west side of sand area to site A3…
  • p. 805 …3et up sonobuoy 1000 ft * west of T-8-0. Times Square tonight. 1947 Jan 1…
  • p. 809 …Went out with Godlers, Porter to White Sands west of air base. Located site and surveyed…
  • p. 810 …with Capt Runcraft and looked over area west of Tularosa as far as the mountains, where…
  • p. 811 …located third bombing site 7-8 miles west of A1, near alkali flats. Chantz and Porter…
  • p. 814 …Rancher, Sid West, found balloon train 25 mi south of High Rolls in mountains. Contacted him…
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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