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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. 14 …Crane as Project Officer for MOGUL and TORRID, June 18, 1946 9. Memo, Maj Gen Curtis…
  • p. 41 …Moore; and the military Project Officer, Colonel Albert C. Trakowski. All of these persons were subsequently…
  • p. 213 …Charlie Moore and Athel Spilhaus used meteorological research as a cover but this was a spur…
  • p. 220 …He and I served together under Colonel Duffy in the Air Force Liaison Office in 1943…
  • p. 227 …I still wanted to be a pilot but I got diverted into the meteorological cadet program…
  • p. 242 …I met tbe chief of the Central Meteorological Office, a Dr. Wadati, and he put me…
  • p. 280 …That's where John had his office, and I was there for a time doing work…
  • p. 309 …by qualified meteorological personnel. The Col and I walked into the General's office where this…
  • p. 320 …Liaison Officer to the US Army Signal Corps, with primary duties for securing meteorological equipment from…
  • p. 325 …developed polyethylene balloons which replaced the neoprene meteorological balloons used on the previous field trip. Also…
  • p. 329 designs on it."41 Furthermore, the Fort Worth Army Airfield Weather Officer, Irving Newton, who was…
  • p. 413 …Marcellus Dutfr, a Regular A~ officer and 1rell-qualitied on meteorological research and development work, might…
  • p. 418 …This officer bat an extensive background and knowledge in meteorological and electronic reiearch and development. He…
  • p. 456 …c) Telemetering section (d) Analysis section (including meteorological and per- for.mance data analysis) 3. A…
  • p. 805 …Finished '/eloci ty data for Oct 4 and Oct 16 from NYU meteorological studies. Stepanoff finished…
  • p. 807 …Used meteorological informatior for 2 explosions. Tried to get V at height of eiplosions but seems…
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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