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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.
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- p. 5 …Additionally, historians Alfred Beck, William Heimdahl, Roger Miller, Eduard
Mark, and Jacob Neufeld shared with us…
- p. 10 …Security markings have been deleted from previously classified documents. The reader
is advised that blacked-out…
- p. 35 …covered the years 1945-1949, that were marked on the index as "destroyed." The
researchers noted…
- p. 39 …I do not recall any other types of material
or markings, nor do I remember seeing…
- p. 41 figures on the sticks, lavender or pink in color, appeared to be weather faded
markings, with…
- p. 51 …UFO buffs contend the incident marked the
beginning of a government conspiracy to sup-
press evidence…
- p. 99 …Although we cannot be absolutely
sure that the histories marked "no holding" in the above list…
- p. 167 …No marks in the ground, dug up,
anything hidden, or anything like that, just out on…
- p. 201 …Some bush pilot had found some pock marks in dty snow in Alaska in 1950. So…
- p. 219 …When this
purplish-pink marking on the debris came up, I immediately
remembered this sort of…
- p. 220 …men, and they were joking about these markings on the
tape. I have a letter that…
- p. 224 …No, because he said it was balsa sticks and smoky
rubber and had those curious markings…
- p. 230 …White Sands to record Hermes."
I've marked the key things here with red, and then…
- p. 309 …in color,
appeared to be weather faded markings, with no rhyme or reason. He did not…
- p. 329 …the wreckage, also remembers the
purple/pink marks. Newton stated that when he was called to…
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cord, marked oscillations are observed at three points. Despite the presence
of…
- p. 563 …KENT, TEXAS
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On Flight 71 marked oscillations are seen at the fleeting level and…
- p. 566 …From the height-t~e curve of this flight (Figure 29)
the very marked effect of…
- p. 567 …Pre-
sumably the marked easterly flow then observed above 60.000 feet carried this
second flight…
- p. 667 …Figure 46 shows the train; figure 47 shows the time-altitude curve, Which
exhibits a marked…
- p. 910 …minute, the distance between successive re-
ference marks will be 30 to 40 centimeters de-
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- p. 915 …is measurable by the distance be-
tween the reference marks. If there is a sudden
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pressure of the pens on…
- p. 923 …This may
be done by measuring the horizontal distance be-
tween the temperature and pressure marks…
FOREWORD
This report represents a joint effort by Col. Richard L. Weaver and 1st Lt. James
McAndrew to address the request made by Representative Steven H. Schiff (R-NM) for
information regarding an alleged crash of an unidentified flying object (UFO) that
occurred in the state in 1947. This publication duplicates the information provided to the
Secretary of the Air Force and to the General Accounting Office (GAO). It was written
as a result of Colonel Weaver's and Lieutenant McAndrew's efforts to locate the records
that explain the events of July 1947 leading to what is popularly known as the Roswell
Incident. The only information presented here that was not in the report delivered to the
Secretary of the Air Force and the GAO is the photograph section. It appears after
Colonel Weaver's final attachment, at the very end of this book.
The importance of attachment 32, Lieutenant McAndrew's synopsis, derives from his
description of Project MOGUL, the top-priority classified project of balloon-borne
experiments, which provides the explanation for the "Roswell Incident." Interest abounds
surrounding the UFO wave of 1947 which began in the spring and did not dissipate until
fall. Interest in UFOs climaxed during the summer, when multiple sightings of such
·objects occurred.
RICHARD P. HALLION
Air Force Historian
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