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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. 14 …Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," February 10, 1949 24. New York University, Constant…
  • p. 26 INTRODUCTION Air Force involvement in the alleged UFO-related incident popularly known as the "Roswell Incident…
  • p. 33 …Air Intelligence Center (NAIC) (f) AF /XOW, Directorate of Weather (g) added later The Air Force…
  • p. 43 …a "service flight" that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
  • p. 56 …of air vehicle and other eras~ incidents similar to the reported crash of a weather balloon…
  • p. 99 …390th Air Service Sqdn - No AFHRA files for June/July 1947. 1395th Military Police - No AFHRA…
  • p. 226 …required to track them, issued to the weather services here in New Mexico. Obviously, after the…
  • p. 228 …Used by the Weather Service. A: We have one of the stations here on campus. actually…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 309 …The base weather covered only the base the flight service center covered most of the southwest…
  • p. 318 …it out to wire services. Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 328 …Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service," Feb H), 1949.
  • p. 731 …3. "Analysis of Japanese Weather Service", Air Vveather Service Technical Report 45-1, Langley Field, Virginia…
  • p. 847 …by Brigadier General D.N.Yates, and Staff, of the Air Weather Service" February 10, 1949
  • p. 978 …In reality, Andrews AAF was the home of the Army Air Forces Air Weather Service and…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 48
A: That's the surprising thing. As far as I know we just
never interfaced with the military.
Q: Where were you actually operating from?
A: We operated out of the north area of Alamagordo Army
Air Field. This hangar right here, which was a big wooden
hangar, on the south side of the ramp in the north area.
Q: That was arranged by Peoples?
A: Crary was already resident there when we had arrived.
Q: That's right. He arrived first to establish the ground
stations first.
A: Correct. As you'll see in this, he was already firing
explosive for the GR-6, the various sound-ranging microphones.
Q: Did he have a cover story for those ground explosions
and the microphones?
A: I don't know. There were very few enlisted men on the
airfield. As Trakowski said, it was about to be closed. There
was a motor pool, because in the stuff Todd has dug up, there
were a bunch of weapons carriers being requisitioned. We
certainly had some brand new, good ground transportation that was
just turned over to us. We civilians were driving weapons
carriers to carry helium around, and to go into town to get
meals, etc.
Q: So you operated from Alamagordo Army Air Field. You
did not operate out of White Sands.
A: That is correct.
Q: There is a difference.
A: A very strong schism between the ordnance people across
the valley 50-odd miles at the proving ground, and the skeleton
group at Alamagordo Army Air Field.
Q: So there weren't many people at Alamagordo.
A: Correct. The main people I have a memory of were the
people operating what sticks in my mind as either c-s or an M-5
radar. I knew the Signal Corps designation, the SCR-584s and
270-s, etc., but this was some new radar that had a bigger dish
on it and was on the north side of the ramp. It would have
been ..• This is looking toward the south. You can see here,
those are some old abandoned, those were barracks used to handle
air crew during training of World War II. They were all closed
and dusty and we didn't use them. We were in barracks down
somewhere on the main base. But we were just in an enlisted

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