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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. 7 …Joseph Fletcher, USAF (Ret); Robert Todd; Frank Press; Vance Mitchell; Lt. Col. Joseph Rogan; Maj. Kevin…
  • p. 31 …Klass, who writes The Skeptic's UFO Newsletter, and Robert Todd, a private researcher. The concerns…
  • p. 34 …by serious private researchers such as Robert Todd, who had independently obtained almost encyclopedic knowledge of…
  • p. 44 …Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally, Karl Pflock, a researcher who is married to a staffer who…
  • p. 213 …Robert Todd, rm not sw-e whether he was a believer or not. Charles Ziegler was…
  • p. 219 …Robert Todd, who has been a person very interested in trying to get to the truth…
  • p. 221 …And by Todd and by me. Q: So it appears as though you, yourself, have done…
  • p. 228 …I didn't know the name Mogul until Robert Todd told me two years ago. I…
  • p. 236 …you come in possession of it? A: Todd. Todd does everything. Q: Did he say where…
  • p. 239 …nice paper that came through courtesy of Todd. In '48 there was a big operation in…
  • p. 241 …We were instructed not to talk about it, and until Todd told me that Mogul had…
  • p. 245 …There were various code names, and thanks to our friend Todd, I've learned about the…
  • p. 246 …surprises me, because in various reports that Todd has sent me, such as the monthly progress…
  • p. 264 …There was a motor pool, because in the stuff Todd has dug up, there were a…
  • p. 266 …Joe Fletcher has written your friend Todd, and said there's no question that's a…
  • p. 268 …Here's a letter Todd got having to do with chasing down modern targets, the people…
  • p. 269 …While I'm finding that, here is a communication between Todd and a Warrant Officer Newton…
  • p. 273 …They were at first a Charles Robert) Todd, from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, who was writing a story…
  • p. 282 …people such as Mr. Pflock and Mr. Todd, and we do appreciate your spending some time…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 50
1944 orders that say such things here. But you'll have to talk
to Trakowski. My feeling is that he and Peoples provided the
interface to the base and we just weren't bothered. We never saw
anybody in security. There was certainly nobody keeping us
secure. If anything, we were keeping ourselves secure.
Q: These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office,
8th Air Force Headquarters by a news photographer of the Fort
Worth Star Telegram. It's four pictures that show various people
with some equipment, and I'd just like to know what you believe
that equipment tc be.
A: Joe Fletcher has written your friend Todd, and said
there's no question that's a target. The only question is that
there are people who allege this is a target that's been
substituted for the real debris, and there are also stories where
Marchelle said the picture in which he appears are the real
stuff, etc. That looks very much like our radar targets. And
you'll notice that this does look more aluminum foilish than what
I have here. It's my memory that there was good, bright,
aluminum metal foil, not painted stuff on the targets we were
using. That looks like more than one target to me in the various
pictures. That looks like the stuff we were flying.
Q: I think they talked in terms of being a rawin target in
this book.
A: It's just radio wind. There are two kinds of radio
winds -- the 400 megacycle transmitters tracked by the SCR-658,
the old bed springs; and then the radar wind. Ray Win is the
right way to say it.
Q: So the rawin would be a radar target that most of the
officers and the weather people there would have been associated
with, they would have some knowledge of?
A: Not really ... A~ I say, these c~me out right at the end
of the war. The warrant officer, I have a letter that he wrote
Todd, I don't know if you've seen it ...
(Pause)
Q: We've got this thing narrowed down to just a few
flights. There couldn't have been ••. Due to your time frame,
when you were there, the rancher went on the record of saying he
picked it up the 14th or the 15th.
A: The 14th.
Q: So it would have to be in the June field trip, early in
June. You had several service flights but you also had, you
called them experimental flights. The experimental flights with
the testing •••

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