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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.
“flying discs”22 pages
- p. 13 …Alamogordo News, "Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is Exlained Here: News Men
Watch Army Radar Crew Launch…
- p. 25 …AAF) allegedly recovered remains of a crashed
"flying disc" near Roswell, New Mexico. In February, 1994…
- p. 28 …Marcel, had recovered a
"flying disc" from the range lands of an unidentified rancher in the…
- p. 36 …during the month answering inquiries on the 'flying disc,' which was
reported to be in possession…
- p. 37 …July 7, he was busy
with a "flying disc" incident; however this particular incident involved Ellington…
- p. 38 …and sticks." Additionally, the
description of the "flying disc" was consistent with a document routinely used…
- p. 43 …balloon."
Concerning the initial announcement, "RAAF Captures Flying Disc," research
failed to locate any documented evidence…
- p. 44 …Pflock concluded from his research that the Brazel Ranch debris originally
reported as a "flying disc…
- p. 46 …Major Marcel in originally reporting that a "flying disc" had been recovered
when, at that time…
- p. 75 …material recovered near
Corona was from a "flying disc," a weather balloon, or
something else.
Please…
- p. 99 …mentioning the Office
of Public Affairs and "flying disc" activities
in GP-509-Hl, July 1947…
- p. 100 …search produced no documents concerned with a flying disc and/or weather
balloon crash at Roswell…
- p. 105 …kept quite busy during the
monti1 answering inquiries on the "flying disc", which.was reported to…
- p. 144 …fro~ the Houston Chronicle saying that a flying disc had landed
there v:ith his (Colonel…
- p. 166 …now
famous newspaper says they found a "flying disc" in RosweU? That was actually the Roswell…
- p. 254 …Here's the morning paper, "Report flying disc found." Down
here is about Colonel J.D…
- p. 318 …this debris may be part of a "flying disc."1 The sheriff conta<;ted
Roswell (Army…
- p. 325 …rancher and
was subsequently identified as a "flying disc" by personnel from Roswell AAF
was, with…
- p. 326 …It should also be
understood that the term "flying disc" was not at this time synonymous…
- p. 329 …floor of the office was a crashed "flying disc." Newton, having
seen many weather balloons and…
- p. 331 …subsequent rumors that the "capture"
of a "flying disc" occurred, ultimately left many people with unanswered…
- p. 373 11
Alamogordo News
"Fantasy of 'Flying Disc' Is
Explained Here: News Men Watch
Army Raqar Crew…
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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