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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 42
A: There was really no contact, at that time, as far as I
know, between Peoples and Roswell, and there's no way Roswell,
other than my memory of getting turned away by the MPs at the
gate, there's no way that the people at Roswell would have known
what was going on over at Alamagordo. When we sent people to
Roswell, Hackman worked out of a motel to receive.
So the more puzzling thing in line with what you say comes
from Crary's diary. Here's what crary's diary says:
"Alamagordo. Balloon Flight llA, off at 5:07. Big plastic
balloon with small auxiliary plastics," etc. "Watson Lab and
gear." "Followed" (inaudible) "receiver until about 11. Picked
up on radiosonde receiver at Roswell then followed. Then came
down. At 10,000 feet, cap should have punctured plastic. Then
it came down near Highway 70, between Roswell and Tulerosa.
"Second balloon, met balloons with radiosonde up about 6:30.
Third balloon with two and a half pound stick of TNT and cap set
by pressure element set to fire at 35,000 feet, up at 6:20."
Q: What day is that again?
A: July 7th.
"Surface bombing at site 4 from 5:45 to 8:45 at 15 minute
intervals. (Inaudible) followed main receiver only three-
quarters of an hour, but followed radiosonde about three hours.
Thirty-five thousand food implosion? off about 6:55. Vivian got
instructions for completing work on Flights 1 to 30 and packed
all records and photo. Sent off TWX regarding Bermuda flight
and wrote up memo on it. Worked with Eileen on April 1st rocket
plotting HD5 HT SST, whatever [that is]."
July 8th. "C-54 off about 10:30 with 23 people, all NYU,
Watson Lab including Vivian, Eileen," and somebody else. I can't
tell. "Lieutenant Thompson, Edmondson, Reynolds and myself left.
Wrote a report on East Coast flights for Peoples."
Here's 9 July, the time this occurred at Alamagordo.
"Worked today on balloon flight. Studied Watson Lab records of
them briefly and wrote memorandum to Peoples about results. Left
in car this PM later. Flat tire between Roswell and Tulerosa,
and stayed there."
July lOth. "Changed tire and went
tire. Off to El Rino, Oklahoma today.
Hereford, Texas and met Danny Hard from
and saw Bob Cowden, somebody in charge,
into Roswell. Bought new
Stopped in cafe in
UGC. Went up to office
and supervisor."
That's the end of it. So there's no hint that Crary was
involved in any coverup such as this clearly is. This is a
coverup right here because they talk about our operations, they
talk about our balloons we thought went to Colorado,and they all
claim it to be part of Pritchard's radar operation.

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