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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…
COL TRAKOWSKI - 6/29/94 4
A: He just said it sure looks like some of the stuff you've been launching at Alamagordo,
and he described it, and I said yes, I think it is. Certainly Colonel Duffy knew enough about radar targets,
radiosondes, and balloon-borne weather devices. He was intimately familiar with all that apparatus.
Q: What was his position at Wright Field?
A: He was on the staff of General Tom Rives who was Director of the Electronic Subdivision
of the Air Materiel Command, and under whose purview the Watson Laboratories was run.
Q: Why did they bring this debris to Colonel Duffy? Why didn't they bring it to someone
else?
A: Probably because of questions about who knows about this project put to people at
Alamagordo. I'm not sure. I can't answer that with any firm knowledge at all.
Q: So you had no idea there was an "incident" until Colonel Duffy called you, and you were
back in Massachusetts at this time?
A: At that time we were at Eatontown, New Jersey. But what you said is correct. I had no
knowledge of the so-called "incident" until Colonel Duffy called me.
Q: Do you recall what day you actually departed Alamagordo?
A: No. No, I don't. I have a full file of my TDY orders upstairs. Right offhand I can't tell
you, but I was back in Watson Laboratories for several days before Colonel Duffy called me.
Q: Do you recall there being a Major Pritchard on-site?
A: I remember the name, yes.
Q: Did he work for you at Watson Laboratories?
A: No. He didn't work for me. I don't recall him working for me. I only had one major
working for me, and I was a captain. He was a dull fellow ... Right offhand I can't remember.
Q: You were the Chief of the Applied Propagation Subdivision.
A: Yes.
Q: I've seen the organizational chart, the way those things go ...
A: I was.
Q: You were at the top, and then down below, as a technical adviser, below your name on
the chart, is Major Pritchard.

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