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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. 36 …potential existence of such records within DOE channels, however. An Extraterrestrial Craft The Air Force research…
  • p. 81 …is not normally released outside Air Force channels. It does not cover the investigation of air…
  • p. 214 …Some of the reflectors were procured from sources out of normal channels. Some of the contractors…
  • p. 236 …try to put microphones into the sound channel. During WWII, the ·signal Corps had laid on…
  • p. 240 …I knew, just being an atmospheric physicist, I knew about the sound duct channel and I…
  • p. 273 …the sound waves operating in the sound channel in the stratosphere. The constant level balloon was…
  • p. 279 COL TRAKOWSKI - 6/29/94 7 were out of channel, so to speak. It was on…
  • p. 319 …II, studying, among other things, the "sound channel" in the ocean. He proved that explosions could…
  • p. 399 …Tb1e situation 1s~escr1beo a• a sound channel .. 1tb 1t& axis at 4000 feet, because all…
  • p. 400 …that there is a s1~1lar sound channel 1n the atmosphere with the axis at a…
  • p. 401 …red height withqut prohibit1'Ye eacr1t1ce ot sound channel prooertiea. Hawcner, 1~ the aub:a.rine…
  • p. 402 …cted at tbe axis ot the sound channel ahould be made. In·., op1n1oii', the J)r1nc1…
  • p. 403 …toe ~trato::.;;he:r·a so\,;nd channel ~!:lould be 1r.ves:.:1. 0ated, for it…
  • p. 407 …compressional waves are generated in the sound channel existing between 50,000 and 701000 feet (such…
  • p. 432 …ratio) and simultaneous transmission of several data channels at one frequency. This project was abandoned before…
  • p. 434 …The recorder used was a Brush BL-202 dottble channel oscillograph. A. quarter wave vertical receiVing…
  • p. 525 …To permit the transmission of both temperature and pressure data by one radio channel, a pe…
  • p. 671 …her than pressure is also to be transmitted on the same radio channel, the pressure - 33 -
  • p. 802 …Discussed with Crane possibilities of getting sound through the ground part of the ocean sound channel…
  • p. 980 …It was Ewing who first conceptualized the military significance of the atmospheric sound channel. His proposal…
PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94
A: The ones in early June were all service flights. In
other words, all flights we were making for Peoples, and we had
some radar test flights.
Q: so to go with the June 14th date, what type of flight
do you think would have ..•
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A: All the balloons launched in that period would have
been meteorological balloons, 350 gram meteorological balloons,
some of them with radar targets just to test the radar out and
some of them, I'd forgotten all about it, but Crary's diary says
we had sonobuoy microphones on some of them. So that black box
that Cavitt had really began to get my attention.
Q: That would not be a radiosonde.
A: That would not be a radiosonde.
Q: What would a radiosonde look like?
A: It would be a white, usually a cardboard or a plastic
box, and the fact that we were involved in radar is because we
weren't allowed to have our radiosonde equipment. We weren't all
set up for that.
Q: You said you didn't bring it with you.
A: We didn't bring the receiver. I have to correct
myself, we did attach radiosondes to them, to the flights
carrying microphones because there's a statement in this summary
here of radiosonde reception. Radiosonde recording. So I take
that back. Yes, we had radiosonde. But we did fly this one
mentioned here, on June 4th, out to Tulerosa range, no balloon
flight, again, on account of clouds. By that he means none of
their flights. Then "Flew regular sonobuoy mike on a cluster of
balloons and had good (inaudible) receiver on ground but poor on
plane."
Q: I notice early on you were going ahead with the Navy
stocked sonobuoy while Professor Ewing was trying to perfect his
technique of the low range frequency microphone.
A: Oh, the low frequency microphone, right. That's
correct.
Q: He was experimenting with both AM and FM, is that your
recollection?
A: In the laboratory, devices for measuring low frequency
acoustic waves were well known, but what he was attempting to do
was to modify these and devise something to be a throw-away
microphone and radio transmitter, so this was to build an
instrument for a certain purpose. He actually had a fellow named

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