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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. 19 …MOGUL; their job was to deliver nuclear weapons, not to detect them. The unusual combination of…
  • p. 36 …happened near Roswell may have involved nuclear weapons. This was a logical area of concern since…
  • p. 41 …to determine the state of Soviet nuclear weapons research. This was the early Cold War period…
  • p. 183 …that time where we either dropped a weapon or did something stupid, which we had to…
  • p. 201 …long range balloons; although not effective as weapons, they did initiate the long-range balloon research…
  • p. 213 …Charles Ziegler was working on the history of nuclear weapons detection capability. He had some letters…
  • p. 249 …Out PM with several NYU men by weapons carrier, but we never located it. Rocket postponed…
  • p. 251 …so I took a weapons carrier and drove up there. We were aggressively trying to recover…
  • p. 253 …We drove up in a weapons carrier to the Roswell Army Air Field, and tried to…
  • p. 264 …We civilians were driving weapons carriers to carry helium around, and to go into town to…
  • p. 273 …a book on the history of nuclear weapons detection. It figured, of course, that Project MOGUL…
  • p. 274 …I had considerable background in nuclear weapons detection, using devices that I had developed in the…
  • p. 326 …in the :world capable of delivering nuclear weapons. It now appears that the debris from MOGUL…
  • p. 401 …a.~tack:; -;;it"t st.~c!"et weapons. ' The moat prom1a1ne. .eJ"PC'• oi: li6tening etatlon…
  • p. 804 …Dec 13 Fri.Woody and I left Alamogordo Air Base in weapon carrier and scouted out…
  • p. 805 …went in borrowed weapon carrier. '.:oody and Jeff 7owler took other weapon carrier ::1~d collected…
  • p. 808 …Phil and Sal went out to Dona and Launching Sites with weapon carrier. Hoffman, DeTurk and…
  • p. 812 …May 19 Mon Reynolds and I left about 0745 in weapon carrier for Silver City. Arrived…
  • p. 813 …Edmondson and I left about 0845 in weapon carrier for Roswell. Arrived at Hagerman about 12…
  • p. 815 …Out pm with several NYU by weapon carrier but we never located it. Rocket postponed until…
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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