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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. 5 …Jacob Neufeld shared with us their wide knowledge of Air Force history. Also, Robert "Gus" Bell…
  • p. 6 …very useful experiences and insights. We are most grateful to the members of Air Force Publishing…
  • p. 9 …The Report of the Air Force Research Regarding the "Roswell Incident" by Col. Richard L. Weaver…
  • p. 18 …balloons still widely used today. Col. Marcellus Duffy, a respected Air Force pilot and scientific administrator…
  • p. 19 …Air Force officers received the intimate details that linked together these unrelated research projects. The use…
  • p. 26 …that in July of 1947, the US Army Air Forces (USAAF) recovered a flying saucer and…
  • p. 28 …General Roger Ramey, Commander of the Eighth Air Force at Forth Worth, Texas, stated that upon…
  • p. 30 …These locations include Fort Worth, Texas, the home of the Eighth Air Force Headquarters; possibly Sandia…
  • p. 31 …Air Force exerted some degree of control. Researchers did not, however, go to the US Army…
  • p. 32 …of the Air Force or the Senior Security Official of the Air Force that would officially…
  • p. 35 …US Army, the subject has also been very well documented over the years within Air Force…
  • p. 36 …There were no ancillary records in Air Force files to indicate the potential existence of such…
  • p. 44 …She provided the Air Force researchers with this material. It is discussed in more detail within…
  • p. 46 …wooden materials used in the radar target previously described. CONCLUSION The Air Force research did not…
  • p. 67 OF"F'1C£ 0~ THE SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON DC 20330-1000 MEMORANDUM…
  • p. 73 …Serious UFO researchers believe that the Air Force now wishes the American public, to know the…
  • p. 76 …An electronic search of the Air Force Historical Research Agency archives, again, several million pages of…
  • p. 81 …AFR 127-4, Investigating and Reporting US Air Force Mishaps (attached), provides guidance for Air Force…
  • p. 94 AFP 127-1 Volume 1, US Air Force Guide to Mishap Investiqation (AFSA/SEP) AFP 127…
  • p. 101 …microfilm roll33,764 indicates that the Fourth Air Force and its A-2 intelligence section apparently…
  • p. 114 …These records contain documents on investigative policy and Air Force Office of Special Investigation reports of…
  • p. 147 …iz he can use as comin~ !rom him - not an Air Force or General Varxienberg statement…
  • p. 163 …Weaver and I am talking to Lt Col Sheridan Cavitt, US Air Force, Retired. Also present…
  • p. 168 …something like, "I took it to 8th Air Force Headquarters, General Ramey was excited; they were…
  • p. 169 …He use to be a mechanic at one time, Rick did, in the Air Force; the…
  • p. 184 …The Air Force having the .. .I mean we were close knit and it seemed that there…
  • p. 186 …Has anybody in the US Government, the Air Force, or anyone connected with the Government, ever…
  • p. 189 …commander of the Eight Air Force, but be and Blanchard use to have some... (unintelligible). Oh…
  • p. 195 …COITDllal'lding General, Army Air Forces, Washington 25, D.C. THRU& (AC/A5-4) 1. To…
  • p. 201 …The Army Air Force had seen what the Japanese had done with long range balloons; although…
  • p. 202 …mathematically-therefore using it was natural. Ramey's press conference-the Air Force position makes sense…
  • p. 213 …I was provided a background on the Air Force efforts related to the GAO audit and…
  • p. 221 …were assigned under Colonel Duffy in the Air Force liaison office. Istvan's name you'll…
  • p. 224 …There was a great argume·n.t that went on between the Army Air Force and…
  • p. 227 …The pressure from the Air Force was enormous. There was a similar problem, of course, in…
  • p. 229 …cord we used was not strong enough at all to hold the forces that came, so…
  • p. 235 …That caused the Army Air Force to begin this research.
  • p. 236 …These are subsequent documents of people in the Air Force considering the desirability of it. After…
  • p. 244 …By and large, people thought we were flying balloons for the Air Force. Q: As far…
  • p. 246 …reports from the people at later Holloman Air Force Base, Mogul appears in things that are…
  • p. 254 …staff of 8th Air Force said that the Air Force was now using radar targets to…
  • p. 255 …General Ramey, Commander, 8th Air Forces, cleared up the mystery. A: In these pictures here, don…
  • p. 260 …We were strongly encouraged not to mix in the Air Force with what we did. Everything…
  • p. 265 …Alamagordo people or anyone else around 8th Air Force. A: There were some fancy orders that…
  • p. 266 …These are the pictures taken in General Ramey's office, 8th Air Force Headquarters by a…
  • p. 273 …The Air Force position on that is that it was a misidentified balloon. The balloon was…
  • p. 274 …using devices that I had developed in the Signal Corps. I was an Air Force officer…
  • p. 277 …Signal Corps and Army Air Force? A: All the officers that I had on my staff…
  • p. 278 …potential problem that might warrant scrutiny by Air Force intelligence or security people? A: We were…
  • p. 280 …Did you have any interaction with the people at Eighth Air Force such as General Ramey…
  • p. 282 …Baltimore, I spent four years at the Air Force Research and Development Command Office in Brussels…
  • p. 309 …the behest of the Secretary of the Air Force, for the GAO, to leok into facts…
  • p. 317 DEPARTMENT OF THE AIR FORCE WASHINGTON OC 20330-1000 OFFICt: OF THE ~ECRETARY JUL 2 7…
  • p. 318 …classified payloads for a Top Secret US Army Air Forces project. The project's classified code…
  • p. 319 …research agency of the US Army Air Forces (USAAF), the Air Materiel Command (AMC), early in…
  • p. 320 …USAAF, as the Army Air Forces Liaison Officer to the US Army Signal Corps, with primary…
  • p. 327 …Andrews AAF was headquarters of the Army Air Forces Weather Service. It is also interesting to…
  • p. 425 …completed to the sponsoring agency for use of Air Force scientific personnel. On 27 February 1948…
  • p. 426 …systems was to be submitted to the Air Force. Modification #9 revised the delivery address for…
  • p. 434 …It was also employed to give tpformation on Neutron intensities 1h another Air Force project(5…
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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