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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. 249 …Pi Ball showed no West winds. Balloons picked up by radar, WS." I presume that means…
  • p. 250 …But I think he had microphones scattered all around in central New Mexico and West Texas…
  • p. 252 …This was really on the northeast corner of the range, just west of the town of…
  • p. 256 …More or less due west of Walker, Roswell Army Air Field. Q: Then this graphic conflicts…
  • p. 322 …equipment at locations in New Mexico and West T~xas. 20 On May 28, the advance…
  • p. 737 …per cent of those released reached the west coast of this country. The balloons floated between…
  • p. 804 …Left Proving Grounds about 2 and went up west side of sand area to site A3…
  • p. 805 …3et up sonobuoy 1000 ft * west of T-8-0. Times Square tonight. 1947 Jan 1…
  • p. 809 …Went out with Godlers, Porter to White Sands west of air base. Located site and surveyed…
  • p. 810 …with Capt Runcraft and looked over area west of Tularosa as far as the mountains, where…
  • p. 811 …located third bombing site 7-8 miles west of A1, near alkali flats. Chantz and Porter…
  • p. 814 …Rancher, Sid West, found balloon train 25 mi south of High Rolls in mountains. Contacted him…
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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