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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 …There was no sign of any metal in the area which might have been used for…
  • p. 30 …and tinfoil has since grown to exotic metals with hieroglyphics and fiber optic-like materials. Most…
  • p. 38 …a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish-black plastic- like material, like Bakelite…
  • p. 39 …fine kidskin glove leather and a dull metallic grayish silver, one side slightly darker than the…
  • p. 43 …a "service flight" that included a cylindrical metal sonobuoy and portions of a weather instrument housed…
  • p. 159 …light, as well as some sort of metallic retlecting material that was also very light I…
  • p. 172 …nothing he had ever seen and the metal was as thin as newsprint and as light…
  • p. 173 …Was it some sort of material, metal material or... MC: And it's in one of…
  • p. 177 …Rickett said it looked Hke metal and asked if it was radioactive" ... and you said it…
  • p. 182 …wandered through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle with a…
  • p. 205 …but I betievc they were covered in metal. On review of the photos in the Randle…
  • p. 218 …They talk in terms of materials that look like metallic foil, and specifically that "could not…
  • p. 266 …It's my memory that there was good, bright, aluminum metal foil, not painted stuff on…
  • p. 269 …mylar is a polyethylene, it's a metalized polyethylene. A: It's not really a polyethylene…
  • p. 309 …s ball and jacks set) with a metallic material between the legs. The legs were madeq…
  • p. 318 …the local sheriff and reported that sme metallic debris had come to rest on the ranch…
  • p. 379 …out of It, There was no S(gn of any metal of Corona. today told his…
  • p. 465 …The fabric has been coated with a metallic paint to mw1.mue the effects of radiation…
  • p. 519 Corps ML-310/ radiosonde aneroid unit, a metal helix on a rotating cylinder of insulating material…
  • p. 598 …20, 39 stiffened with metal, .!! - Arrays of rubber balloons cluster, 7 linear, 6 Atmospheric oscillations, 10…
  • p. 864 …15 x i X .030" 24 ST Metal spring bow to hold appendix flat, like pressed…
  • p. 867 Figure 4 Two foot apflendix, showing metal spring bow in position. -13-
  • p. 868 …toggles and loops in the nylon may be used instead of the heavier metal snaps. -14-
  • p. 908 …rotating cyclinder of insulating material with a metal helix wound around the cylinder, and a 6…
  • p. 916 …Spiral--made of nickel or other metal which does not corrode in the atmosphere, .010 inch…
  • p. 917 …Loading edge of the metal spiral will be true and sm.ooth to within .0005 inch…
  • p. 922 …The car- bon should not be so thick as to obscure the metallic appearance of the…
  • p. 932 …GoPPE:R TuBE s" J·-- 58 COILA5SEMBL.Y (SECTION) --.. ....-- METAL HosE TO TANKS c :::{l;::::t…
  • p. 937 …tin cans Metal funnel -8:5-
  • p. 989 …These balloons were easily mistaken for flying saucers due to their shape and metallic exterior coating.
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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