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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 …Also, Robert "Gus" Bell contributed with his attractive art work; Richard Wolf provided invaluable computer expertise…
  • p. 6 …Select) Robert Hunter, the 913th Logistics Group Commander, for providing end-of-year assistance. And we…
  • p. 7 …Joseph Fletcher, USAF (Ret); Robert Todd; Frank Press; Vance Mitchell; Lt. Col. Joseph Rogan; Maj. Kevin…
  • p. 11 …Memo with Addendum, Robert J. McCormick, SAF/AA, for Distribution, subj: GAO Review on Records Management…
  • p. 27 …4). Subsequently, the then-Administrative Assistant, Mr. Robert J. McCormick, issued a tasking memorandum dated March…
  • p. 29 …Additionally, the Robert Stack-hosted television show "Unsolved Mysteries" devoted a large portion of one show…
  • p. 31 …Klass, who writes The Skeptic's UFO Newsletter, and Robert Todd, a private researcher. The concerns…
  • p. 34 …recommended by serious private researchers such as Robert Todd, who had independently obtained almost encyclopedic knowledge…
  • p. 39 …I do not remember it having any design or embossing on it ...." Robert R. Porter (B…
  • p. 44 …Moore, Robert Todd, and coincidentally, Karl Pflock, a researcher who is married to a staffer who…
  • p. 51 …In 1989, NBC's "Unsolved Mysteries" inves- tigated the controversy, which the program's host, Robert…
  • p. 75 …manager of KGFL Radio in Roswell, Jud Roberts, says the station was threatened with loss of…
  • p. 143 …permanent structure. 11:05 A.Y.. llr. Robert Gross ar.d 't!r. Jlaher of Lockheed…
  • p. 213 …provided some documents to some of them. Robert Todd, rm not sw-e whether he was…
  • p. 219 …No, we did not see that. A: Robert Todd, who has been a person very interested…
  • p. 228 …I didn't know the name Mogul until Robert Todd told me two years ago. I…
  • p. 273 …They were at first a Charles Robert) Todd, from Ardmore, Pennsylvania, who was writing a story…
  • p. 278 …I never met Richard Robert Crane. I knew him only by the path of debris he…
  • p. 299 …Westinghouse Electronics History Museum, Baltimore MD Mr Robert Dwitzbe, President "no balloon activity or balloon-borne…
  • p. 320 …Maj Robert T. Crane, spring 1946-July 1946; Col Marcellus Duffy, August 1946-January, 1947; and…
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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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