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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. 12 …Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Photographs of Balloon Debris, July 9, 1947 17. Satement, Lt. Col. Sheridan…
  • p. 13 …Photographs, ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon Research…
  • p. 15 …Balloons Project MOGUL Balloon Train Components and Debris Recovered Heights of Familiar Architectural Structures Relative to…
  • p. 19 …Additionally, many claims of a flying saucer crash at Roswell rest on the description of debris…
  • p. 25 …Prior to that, the incident was dismissed because the AAF originally identified the debris recovered as…
  • p. 28 …When the debris was gathered up the tinfoil, paper, tape, and sticks made a bundle about…
  • p. 29 …Marcel, claimed that he had recovered UFO debris near Roswell in 1947. Also in 1978, a…
  • p. 30 example, it was originally reported that there was only recovery of debris from one site. This…
  • p. 32 …the exact location(s) of the purported debris, and the extent of the wreckage. Such discrepancies…
  • p. 35 …forth as a possible explanation for the debris recovered near Roswell. Since much of this testing…
  • p. 38 …There were three categories of debris: a thick, foil like metallic gray substance; a brittle, brownish…
  • p. 39 …The debris looked like pieces of a large balloon which had burst. The pieces were small…
  • p. 40 accompanied Major Marcel to the ranch to recover the debris, sometimes along with his Counter Intelligence…
  • p. 43 …Lt Col Cavitt described a small area of debris which appeared, "to resemble bamboo type square…
  • p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally reported as a "flying disc…
  • p. 46 …This organiza- tion was able to obtain measurements from the "sticks" visible in the debris after…
  • p. 48 …Photos of ML-307C/ AP Device, With Vintage Neoprene Balloon and Debris 32. Synopsis of Balloon…
  • p. 67 …reporting air vehicle crashes, investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition; (c) identify~ records (unclassified or…
  • p. 71 …existence of any relevant documents, flying saucer debris, or space aliens on WPAFB. AF/IN's…
  • p. 72 …miles from the rest of the OFO debris. There has been rumors of post-mortem examinations…
  • p. 75 …They discovered a gre:~t deal of lightweight debris which couldn't be cut. burned, or…
  • p. 81 …Normally, the safety investigation is done first, after which the wreckage/debris retention and disposition becomes…
  • p. 85 …reporting air vehicle crashes, investigations, and wreckage/debris retention and disposition. Additionally, we do not possess…
  • p. 151 16 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947
  • p. 159 …When we got to this location we subsequently located some debris which appeared to me to…
  • p. 164 …we heard that someone had found some debris out not too tar &om RosweU and it…
  • p. 172 …the next morning they headed out into a field were Brazel had found the debris." So…
  • p. 175 …type of rocket when you saw the debris in the field? SC: No. No. I never…
  • p. 177 …the senior intelligence officer walked into the debris field, examined the wreckase. Rickett said it looked…
  • p. 182 …through the security phalanx and saw metallic debris scattered in an outer circle with a diameter…
  • p. 187 …It was something that was written or printed on some of the debris, Do you recall…
  • p. 201 …balloons for the detection and collection of debris from atomic explosion. Although I was involved in…
  • p. 202 …There was also debris coUection on sticky paper. Most of the balloon projects were not concerned…
  • p. 206 …others were involved in other activities so debris from rockets, aircraft dropsondes, etc. may have been…
  • p. 213 …someone had come to him with some debris from Ne~ Mexico and he said, "this SW…
  • p. 214 apparatus and materials for the project, so if he said that it was debris from the…
  • p. 219 …When this purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately remembered this sort of…
  • p. 222 …He indicates in this newspaper article that he actually found the debris in mid-June, however…
  • p. 232 …And left pieces of debris everywhere. Depending on •..
  • p. 252 …But you're quite right, there's debris that was reported to us that ••• Q: ••• some…
  • p. 257 …in the area who could explain this debris that was brought in. There were no experts…
  • p. 261 …a radar to substitute for the real debris. I think there's a very high likelihood…
  • p. 262 …I asked her did he ever talk to her about anything regarding this debris that had…
  • p. 266 …that's been substituted for the real debris, and there are also stories where Marchelle said…
  • p. 270 PROFESSOR MOORE - 6/8/94 54 including that debris, are pictures that he sent to me…
  • p. 275 …Someone came from New Mexico with this debris? A: Yes, I believe that's correct. Q…
  • p. 276 …Why did they bring this debris to Colonel Duffy? Why didn't they bring it to…
  • p. 278 …I knew him only by the path of debris he left behind. I never met him…
  • p. 311 31 Photographs ML-307C/AP Device with Vintage Neoprene Balloons and Debris
  • p. 318 …Meanwhile, Brig Gen Roger Ramey, Eighth Air Force Commander, ordered that the debris be flown to…
  • p. 325 …Descriptions of the debris provided by Brazel, Cavitt, Crary's diary, and the photos of the…
  • p. 326 …It now appears that the debris from MOGUL flight no. 4 had come ·to earth on…
  • p. 327 …Newton positively identified the debris as the remnants of a balloon and RAWIN target. 37 With…
  • p. 328 …Research has revealed that the debris found on the ranch and displayed in General Ramey's…
  • p. 329 …weather balloons and targets, positively identified the debris as a weather device.42 In short, descriptions…
  • p. 331 …4 Photographs of Balloon Debris JAMES McANDREW, 1st Lt, USAFR Declassification and Review Officer SAF/AAZD…
  • p. 333 Fort Worth Star-Telegram Photographs of Balloon Debris July 9, 1947 1
  • p. 379 …When the .debris was :gathered of these. . .· . originally gave tbe'<information of Jesse_. A. Mateel and…
  • p. 975 …In fact, General Ramey displayed the original debris recovered from the ranch, which came from a…
  • p. 978 …They also contend that the debris recovered by the rancher was transported to Andrews AAF, MD…
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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