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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.
“Nature”21 pages
- p. 18 …Nevertheless, while the nature of the project remained
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- p. 33 …if there was anything
of an extraordinary nature involved. This meant that the search was not…
- p. 37 …generate absolutely no paperwork of a suspicious
nature, while simultaneously anticipating that twenty years or more…
- p. 75 …at your earliest opportunity, of the
United States Government's current position on the nature
of…
- p. 159 …Colonel Weaver any information of a
classified nature that I may have concerning it. There is…
- p. 177 …I didn't
know, naturally. I could have said after we got back to the office…
- p. 202 …We used meterology as a cover story-it was a natural. It had a purpose beyond…
- p. 219 …and almost .like
hieroglyphics -- purple, pinkish in nature, that sort of thing.
A: I don't…
- p. 237 …materials, putting out bids, things of this nature. At
that point you were working at New…
- p. 241 …But it was kind of a natural thing to think of in terms
of meteorology?
A…
- p. 262 …up your
procedures or anything of that nature, or a memo?
A: I have no memory…
- p. 309 …be meteorological equipment or something
of that nature and wanted it examined by qualified meteorological personnel…
- p. 477 …ment was included that oscillations do occur naturally within the
atmosphere, apparently as a result of…
- p. 506 …Therefor~, our ~iscussion will be more of a
qualitative rather than a quantitative nature.
The general…
- p. 563 …b&i at controls to determine the natural buoyancy of the General Mills, Inc.
20-foot…
- p. 584 …level
flight obtained ~~s due to the natural buoyancy of the balloon or the action
of…
- p. 596 …This and the general flight pattern
indicate the satisfactory nature of this Winzen Research Inc. balloon…
- p. 598 …changes in, due to sunset, 75, 90
natural
Seyfang balloons in the troposphere, 79
1' -diameter…
- p. 609 …however, much data and details of technical nature were given only
in a qualitative way. It…
- p. 881 …Tracking and Recording Instruments
Depending upon the nature of the flight, the weather condi-
tions, and…
- p. 929 …float
are high in the stratosphere, the natural stability of the bal-
loon in the temperature…
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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